A Grammar of Konso

Abstract

Orkaydo’s grammar of the Lowland Cushitic language Konso is a comprehensive and richly examplified description of an important language of interest in a number of ways including absence of a voice contrast, marked nominative case, and an unusually distributed set of subject-person agreement clitics. Highlighted in this review are the subject clitics, adjectival notions expressed through a class of stative verbs, and a rule of glottal stop insertion argued here to result from an analogical not phonological rule.