Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics
Complex Predicates, Finiteness and Interrogativity
edited by Amha Azeb, Ronny Meyer and Yvonne Treis
Paperback (Published)
(July 2014)
ISBN: 9783447102148
5.71 x 8.62 inches
Price: $95.00
On back order
Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia. The first section of the volume consists of two articles on interrogativity in Amharic and Baskeet. Their main concern is the morphosyntax and use of yes/no and content questions, and the morphology of interrogative pronouns. The second section assembles four chapters dealing with complex predicates in Amharic, Koorete, Zargulla and Xamtanga. They point out the semantic/pragmatic differences between complex predicates and their monoverbal counterparts, the morphosyntactic properties of the component verbs, and the differences between complex predicates and multi-clausal constructions. The six contributions of the third section are dedicated to issues of finiteness in Libido and various Ethiosemitic languages including Amharic, Ge’ez, Gurage languages and Tigrinya. The studies show that a high degree of linguistic variability occurs in finiteness marking in these languages. In discussing verb forms that are neither fully finite nor fully infinite they provide further support for the hypothesis that finiteness should be considered a relational – scalar rather than an absolute – binary category.Most articles are based on presentations made at the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies held from 29 October until 2 November 2012 in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, and, thus, reflect recent research trends in the description of Ethiopian languages.
- Edited by Amha Azeb
- Edited by Ronny Meyer
- Edited by Yvonne Treis
Other Titles in this Series
Spirit-Writing Cults in the Chaozhou Region between 1860 and 1949
Local Religion and Translocal Religious Movements
Volume 125
Schriftliche mandschurische Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur des Qing-Reiches des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Aus dem Russischen ubersetzt, bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Giovanni Stary und Hartmut Walravens
Volume 100
Wolfram Eberhard (1909-1989). Sinologe, Ethnologe, Soziologe und Folklorist
Schriftenverzeichnis zusammengestellt mit einer biografischen Einleitung von Hartmut Walravens
Volume 65
Die Traume der Schulweisheit
Leben und Werk des 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Gurgani (gest. 816/1413)
Volume 86
Joseph Francis Rock (1884-1962). Travel diaries of a botanist and ethnographer from Lanzhou to Koko Nor (Qinghai) 1925 and from Chone to Songpan 1927 (Eastern Tibet / West China)
Edited from Rock's revised manuscripts by Hartmut Walravens
Volume 136
Erzahlen im alten Japan
Geschichtsschreibung, Mythen und narrative Dichtung in den ersten beiden Man'yoshu-Banden
Volume 132
Language and Textuality in Byzantine Karaism
Grammatical Concepts, Biblical Text Traditions, and Hermeneutic Aspects in the Constantinople Center (Late 11th-First Half of 14th Centuries)
Volume 116
Die ‘Risala fi l-Hawass’ des Ibn al-Gazzar
Die arabische Vorlage des Albertus Magnus zugeschriebenen Traktats 'De mirabilibus mundi'
Volume 79
Perfekt, Pseudopartizip, Stativ
Die afroasiatische Suffixkonjugation in sprachvergleichender Perspektive
Volume 117
Ernst Boerschmann
Pagoden in China: Das unveroffentlichte Werk 'Pagoden II'. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben und mit historischen Fotos illustriert und bearbeitet von Hartmut Walravens
Volume 102
The Way and Its Powers
An Ethnographic Account of Taoist Practice and Religious Authority in Northern Taiwan
Volume 119
Similar Books
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Conceptualisation as a Biocognitive Phenomenon and Part of the Faculty of Language
Cross-linguistic Evidence from the Preposition Category
Language Assessment Across Cultures
From Intercultural Communicative Competence to Artificial Intelligence
Language, Semantics, and Cognition in Ancient Egypt and Beyond
Proceedings of the International Conference, Yale University, April 16-18, 2021
Volume 14
Linguistic Fragmentation and Cultural Inclusion in the Middle Ages
Translation, Plurilingualism, Multilingualism
Volume 22
Love and the Danish Worldview
A Cognitive Ethnolinguistic Study of the Concept of Kærlighed ‘Love’ in Danish
LSP Teaching / Fachbezogener Fremdsprachenunterricht
Practices, Innovations, Technology / Praxis, Innovation, Technologie
Peri-urban life-worlds contested
Everyday experiences, governance, and conflicts at the rural-urban interface of Maputo, Mozambique
Prosperity Gospel Redefined
The Impact of Charismatisation of the Mainline Churches in Tanzania
Volume 5
