The Ik language : Dictionary and grammar sketch / / Terrill Schrock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910476933403321
• Autore: Schrock Terrill
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin : , : Language Science Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (569 pages)
• Collana: African language grammars and dictionaries ; ; Volume 1
• Disciplina: 418.0071
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Study and teaching; Ik language
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: I. Introduction -- II. Ik-English dictionary -- III. English-Ik reversal index -- IV. Grammar sketch -- Appendix A: Ik affixes -- References -- Subject index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ik, one of the three Kuliak (Rub) languages spoken in the beautiful Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. It is the lexicographic sequel to A grammar of Ik (Icé-tód): Northeast Uganda's last thriving Kuliak language (Schrock 2014). The present volume includes an Ik-English dictionary with roughly 8,700 entries, followed by a reversed English-Ik index. These two main sections are then supplemented with an outline of Ik grammar that is comprehensive in its coverage of topics and written in a simple style, using standard linguistic terminology in a way that is accessible to interested non-linguists as well. This book may prove useful for language preservation and development among the Ik people, as a reference tool for non-Ik learners of the language, and as a source of data, not only for the comparative study of Kuliak but also the wider Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language families.