A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language. (Motomichi Wakasa)
A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language. (Motomichi Wakasa)
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现代沃莱塔语言的描述性研究。
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10.11198/niloethiopian.27.br01
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2022
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Kazuhiro Kawachi
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Ebata;Fuyuki and Syuryun Arzhaana;江畑冬生;Kazuhiro Kawachi
除了Wakasa的其他作品（2008年，2014年，即将出版），还有其他在过去写的Wolaytta语法，特别是亚当斯（1983年）和Lamberti和Sottile（1997年）。然而，这本书肯定是世界上最好的语言数据源，因为它比它的任何前身都更详细。亚当斯（1983）利用结构语言学中的一种“插入-填充”方法作为他的分析工具（如Pike 1962，Longacre 1965，Cook 1969），该方法使用替换框架将项目划分为语法类别。他研究的主要目的似乎是通过这种方法正式表示Wolaytta形式，这似乎很难证明是合理的，而不是详细的、理论中立的描述。虽然亚当斯似乎已经收集了来自不同类型的来源的数据，而他训练沃莱塔扬声器，以发展他们的写作系统，通过圣经翻译（页。31-32），他没有指出数据来源的例子清楚。Lamberti和Sottile（1997）的664页的Wolaytta语法和词汇的描述，这是基于第一作者的启发，从一个发言者在他六个月的实地考察在埃塞俄比亚（pp. 5-6，13-14），列出了引出的单词和句子，没有提供任何上下文及其英文翻译，共400多页，只提供了关于语法的简明信息。另一方面，若狭在他的语法的各个地方清晰而仔细地解释了他的分析和描述与以前的研究者的不同之处。这些对任何研究沃莱塔语和邻近语言的研究人员都很有帮助。作者还提供了足够数量的例证，以一种非常耐人寻味和吸引人的方式解释了各种语法现象。作者对语法细节的叙述一贯清晰明了。此外，若狭认真而明确地指出，他无法分析任何相关的具体现象（例如，
In addition to Wakasa’s other works (2008, 2014, forthcoming), there are other previous grammars of Wolaytta written in the past, notably, Adams (1983) and Lamberti and Sottile (1997). However, this book certainly serves as the best data source of this language in the world because it is more thoroughly detailed than any of its precursors. Adams (1983) utilizes as his analytical tool Tagmetics (eg, Pike 1962, Longacre 1965, Cook 1969), a slot-and-filler approach of structural linguistics, which uses substitution frames to classify items into grammatical categories. The primary purpose of his research appears to be formal representation of Wolaytta forms via this approach, which seems to be hardly justifiable, rather than detailed, theory-neutral description. Although Adams seems to have collected data from different types of sources, while he trained Wolaytta speakers to develop their writing system through Bible translation (pp. 31–32), he does not indicate data sources for the examples clearly. Lamberti and Sottile’s (1997) 664-page description of Wolaytta grammar and lexicon, which is based on the first author’s elicitations from one speaker during his sixmonths fieldwork in Ethiopia (pp. 5–6, 13–14), lists elicited words and sentences without any context provided and their English translations, comprising more than 400 pages, and provides only concise information on the grammar. On the other hand, Wakasa lucidly and carefully explains in various places of his grammar how his analyses and descriptions differ from the previous researchers’. These are highly helpful to any researcher investigating Wolaytta and neighboring languages. The author also provides a sufficient number of illustrative examples to explain a variety of grammatical phenomena in an immensely intriguing and attractive way. The author’s accounts of grammatical details are consistently clear-cut. Furthermore, Wakasa conscientiously and clearly states that he was unable to analyze specific phenomena wherever relevant (eg,