This is a digital reference grammar of Abesabesi. Except for this introductory
text, it only displays content of chapters 2 and 3 of the PhD thesis "A Digital
Reference Grammar of Abesabesi. Towards a data format for digital reference
grammars" by Jonas Lau (2021). While the structure of the Abesabesi Sketch
Grammar and the section headings have been adopted, section numbers are not in
accordance with the originals. As this digital grammar is merely an illustration
for the thesis' findings, only a few sections from different parts of the
grammar have been encoded (see following list). The rest are empty pages.
- 1.1.1 Naming the Language
- 1.1.2 Location and surrounding languages
- 1.1.3 Number of speakers
- 1.1.8 Typological sketch
- 1.1.9 Conventions
- 2.1 Vowels
- 2.4.4 Vowel harmony
- 2.6 Orthography
- 3.3 Word classes
- 4.2.2 Noun class
- 5.3.3 Defunct verbs
- 6.2 Pronouns
- 6.2.4 Independent pronouns
- 7.1.1 Simple nominalization
- 8.1 Argument structure
- 8.6.1 Standard negation
- 9.4 Contrastive focus construction
The Abesabesi Sketch Grammar has been developed within the language
documentation project "Documenting
Abesabesi" funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
(ELDP). The resulting audio-visual corpus can be accessed here.