Vol. 25 No. 1 (2016): Nordic Journal of African Studies
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Subject clitics in Konso

Nordic Journal of African Studies

Published 2016-03-31

How to Cite

Orkaydo, O. O., & Mous, M. (2016). Subject clitics in Konso. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 25(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v25i1.116

Abstract

In Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia), a sentence contains an inflectional element separate from the verb. This is in essence a subject clitic and a sentence type indicator. Its position is at some place in the sentence before the verb and indicative of information structure. The article provides a first full analysis of the basic properties of the subject clitic.