I have the privilege of working on Material from Roland Werner, who did linguistic field work on Midob (Urrti dialect) in 1987-88 and could publish only a part of his material in his book Tìdn-áal: A Study of Midob (Darfur-Nubian), Berlin: Reimer, 1993. He kindly gave me his material and the permission to make more of it available - so here is the first part:
RolandWerner.MidobSentences.210-510.glossed.pdf
These are sentences like the text documentation of the book of Roland Werner (p.66 ff). The interlinear gloss I added has not the detail and consistency recommended by Lehmann rules, but should give a basic idea of how the sentences work. Phonetic transcription mainly follows the book, but I might switch to the more phonetic way he used in his notebooks (i.e. [ng] as [ŋ]). Currently I have 2569 sentences in electronic format (including some duplicates) plus some narrations and sentences from handwritten notebooks which I hope to make available as it is ready.
Comments are welcome.
Dear Manfred,
ReplyDeleteGreat! Thank you for initiating this blog. I admire your technical know-how to create such a site.
Also I like the way how you display the Midob clauses with the interlinearization. I noticed that in the interlinear glossing you use hyphens to separate, for example, -GEN from the preceding word. Each hyphen in the interlinear glosses should correspond to a hyphen in the Midob line. It will not always be easy to make a decision where the morpheme boundaries are and where to put the hyphens. However, this is an opportunity for linguistic analysis and discussion. So what I suggest is that you collect examples of -GEN and -LOC etc. and describe the distribution and possible variants of these morphemes.
Best wishes
Angelika