Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic language
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| adam_text | Language Death in Mesmes
A Sociolinguistic and
Historical-Comparative Examination of a
Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language
Michael Bryan Ahland
SIL International
and
The University of Texas at Arlington
Contents
List of Maps viii
List of Figures i
List of Tables ix
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Gurage Cluster and Mesmes 1
1.2 The Gurage language survey of 2001 2
1.3 The Identification of the Lects in the Gurage Cluster ... .5
1.4 Historical Work on the Gurage Varieties 7
1.4.1 The Work of Leslau 7
1.4.2 The Work of Hetzron
1.4.3 A New Proposal for Ethio-Semitic Classification. . .10
1.5 The Debate over the Semitic Homeland 11
1.6 Previous Research on Mesmes 13
1.6.1 The Work of Bender: The Wordlist,
Lexicostatistics, and Grammatical Paradigms 13
1.6.2 Hetzron on Mesmes 14
2 Establishing the Socio-Historical Context 17
2.1 The Importance of the Social Setting 7
2.2 The Gurage-Hadiyya Contact Situation 17
2.3 The Recent History and Current Status of Mesmes .... 19
2.3.1 An Interview with the Terminal Speaker 19
2.3.2 The Shift to Hadiyya and the Death of Mesmes ... 21
2.3.3 The Maintenance of Identity Across
Language Death 23
3 The Implications of Language Death 27
3.1 The Reliability Question 27
3.1.1 The Challenge of a Terminal Speaker 27
3.2 An Evaluation of the Reliability of the Mesmes Data ... 28
3.2.1 The Reliability of the Mesmes Wordlist 28
3.2.2 The Reliability of the Mesmes Text 28
3.3 Linguistic Implications 29
3.3.1 Externally Induced Changes 30
3.3.2 Internally Induced Changes 0
3.3.3 Reduction and Replacement Trends in
Language Contact 31
3.4 The Modes of Language Death 32
3.5 The Later Loss Hypothesis and Rusty Speakers .... 33
3.6 An Examination of the Mesmes Text in Light of the
Linguistic Implications 34
3.6.1 Possible Examples of the Impact of Language
Death in the Mesmes Text 35
3.6.2 Evidence of Maintenance of Inherited
Structure in Mesmes 8
4 The Genetic Position of Mesmes 43
4.1 The Establishment of Mesmes as a Gurage Language ... 43
4.1.1 The Ethnonym as Evidence of
Guragoid Placement 43
4.1.2 The Main Verb Marker Retention Attesting
to a Genetic Link with Gurage 44
4.1.3 Morpho-Syntactic Evidence of Guragoid
Relationship 45
4.1.4 Lexical Evidence of Close Relationship
with PWG 7
4.2 Shared Innovations Linking Mesmes with PWG 48
4.2.1 Innovations in the Pronominal Paradigm 49
4.2.2 Markedness Reversal and the Beginnings
of an Obstruent Chain Shift 53
4.2.3 An Examination of the Systematicity of
Relative Chronology in the Mesmes Data 55
4.2.4 Additional Links Between Mesmes and PWG .... 60
4.2.4.1 Weakening of the Bilabial Nasal
and the Genesis of the Non-Etymological /n/ ... 60
VI
t 4.2.4.2 Relevant Vocalic Length 65
4.2.4.3 Other Vocalic Changes in Mesmes 68
4.2.4.4 Pharyngeal Archaisms and
Systematic Metathesis 69
5 Evidence of Contact-Induced Change in the Mesmes Data. . 73
5.1 The Nature of Externally-Induced Change 73
5.2 Loanwords in the Mesmes Wordlist 74
5.3 Paradigmatic Leveling in Mesmes 5
5.4 The Mesmes Final Vocalism 76
5.5 Vocalic Phenomena in Mesmes 9
5.6 Possible Syntactic Change as a Result of Contact 80
5.7 Cushitic Stop-Attacks in Endegeny and Mesmes 83
6 Conclusion 85
6.1 Subgrouping Internal to PWG 85
6.2 Unerscoring the Holistic Approach 89
Appendices
A Peripheral West Gurage Wordlist Comparison
with Mesmes 91
B Mesmes, Hadiyya and Kambaata Comparison 103
C The Mesmes Text 109
D Notes on the Analysis of the Mesmes Text 115
E Gurage language survey Map with Principal Towns. . . 135
References 137
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