Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies

Papers from the Fourth Cushitic Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003

Edited by: Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Graziano Savà. With contributions by: Azeb Amha, Binyam Sisay Mendisu, Václav Blažek, Roger M. Blench, Fekede Menuta, Mara Frascarelli, Hirut Woldemariam, Grover Hudson, Roland Kießling, Didier Morin, Maarten Mous, Mulugeta Seyoum, Annarita Puglielli, Christian J. Rapold, Tolemariam Fufa, Martine Vanhove, Wondwosen Tesfaye, Kjell Magne Yri.

2007
10 pp. Roman, 268 pp.
8 figures, 32 tables, numerous charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
580 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Seven years had passed since the last Cushitic-Omotic conference held in Berlin in 1994. During that period a wealth of high quality studies on Cushitic and Omotic language appeared in publication. Excellent descriptive works presented the structure of previously undescribed languages. Linguistic theories were elaborated and tested using material from languages of these Afroasiatic subfamilies. Typological works highlighted the peculiarities of Cushitic and Omotic linguistic features within the languages of the world.

So the Department of African Languages and Cultures of Leiden University / Netherlands felt the need to organise a conference which provided a concrete overview of the achievement in their research field.

CONTENTS

Omotic Languages

Azeb Amha: Are -a- and -o- in the indicative verb paradigms of Zargulla nominalizers?

Binyam Sisay Mendisu: Simple nominal complements in Koorete

Hirut Woldemariam: Historical notes on third person singular pronouns in the Ometo languages

Mulugeta Seyoum: Some notes on reduplication in Dime

Christian J. Rapold: From demonstratives to verb agreement in Benchnon

Tolemariam Fufa: Word order in Shekacho

Enset Culture

Roger Blench: Enset culture and its history in highland Ethiopia

Grover Hudson: Enset vocabulary in eight Ethiopian languages

Cushitic Languages

Václav Blazek: Beja historical phonology – Consonantism

Fekede Menuta: An overview of Qebena noun morphology

Mara Frascarelli / Annarita Puglielli: Focus markers and universal grammar

Roland Kießling: Alagwa functional sentence perspective and “incorporation”

Didier Morin: New questions about the Bayso lexicon

Maarten Mous: The middle and passive derivations in Konso

Martine Vanhove: The independent personal pronouns in Beja – synchronic functions and diachronic perspective

Wondwosen Tesfaye: Laguu in the Oromo society – a sociolinguistic approach

Kjell Magne Yri: Nouns and adjectives in Sidaamu xafó

Under these links you will find the proceedings volumes of the International Conferences on Cushitic and Omotic languages and of the Enno Littmann Conference 2009:

Accompanying material:

• Cushitic and Omotic Languages (ISBN 978-3-927620-28-5)
• Studies in Honour of Enno Littmann (ISBN 978-3-89645-681-6)
• Tigre Studies in the 21st Century – Tigre-Studien im 21. Jahrhundert (ISBN 978-3-89645-682-3)

Cross-reference:

• Multidisciplinary Views on the Horn of Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-683-0)

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