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Dawit Tilahun, guest lecturer
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Mood in Gede'o

Research
Culture and languages

Dawit Tilahun gives a guest lecture within the research area Linguistic Structures. All interested are welcome!

Lecture,
Seminar
Date
27 Jan 2022
Time
13:15 - 14:30
Location
Zoom
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Language: English

As a result of current pandemic restrictions, the seminar is held digitally only.
The zoom link will be sent to the research area's mailing list one week before the presentation. If you are not on the mailing list, contact Evie Coussé to get the link.
Organizer
Department of Languages and Literatures

Gede’o, a Highland East Cushitic Language, exhibits a binary distinction between declarative and non-declarative mood. Interestingly, mood is conveyed through verbal inflection, rather than using particles. The present contribution investigates the strategies of mood marking and function in declarative, imperative, jussive, and optative moods in Gede’o. A declarative mood, for instance, contrasts with an interrogative in that the latter is characterized with the absence of the verb final declarative suffix.

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