A grammar of Moro

Peter Jenks; Elyasir Julima; Angelo Nasir; Sharon Rose

doi:10.5281/

A grammar of Moro

Authors

Peter Jenks

Elyasir Julima

Angelo Nasir

Sharon Rose

UC San Diego

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/

Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive grammatical description of the Thetogovela variety of Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains in the Republic of Sudan. All aspects of Moro grammar are covered in depth, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. This book is based on many years of collaborative work between the authors in the US and Sudan beginning in 2005. It includes a lexicon of over 1300 entries and six fully glossed texts. The grammar includes examples from extensive elicitation-based fieldwork, as well as naturally occurring examples from oral texts transcribed in the book, and examples from written Moro in the Moro Story Corpus. All example sentences are provided in the official Moro orthography as well as IPA.

Author Biographies

Peter Jenks

Peter Jenks is a syntactician and descriptive linguist [title, affiliation] who studies how syntactic structure encodes meaning and sound. His research focuses on definiteness, quantification, and relative clauses at the syntax-semantics interface, and on prosody-sensitive morphophonology at the syntax-phonology interface. He has worked on languages of East and Southeast Asia and Subsaharan Africa, especially Thai, the subject of his dissertation, and Moro, a Kordofanian language of Sudan. He co-developed the Moro Story Corpus and is coauthoring a descriptive grammar of Moro with Language Sciences Press. He teaches syntax, semantics, typology, fieldwork, and introductory linguistics.

Sharon Rose, UC San Diego

Sharon Rose received her BA (Hon.) in Linguistics from the University of Toronto, her MA in Linguistics from the Université du Québec à Montréal and her PhD in Linguistics from McGill University. Her main areas of research are in phonological analysis and descriptive fieldwork on African languages, particularly Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea and Kordofanian languages of Sudan. African languages present an array of phonological phenomena, and her research examines these data from an individual language perspective, as well as from typological and theoretical angles. Research topics include long-distance phonological phenomena, especially consonant harmony, vowel harmony, dissimilation, and featural affixation. She also conducts research on tone and how it interfaces with intonation, syllable structure, morphology and affix order.