Grammatical And Sociolinguistic Aspects Of Ethiopian Languages

Author : Derib Ado,Almaz Wasse Gelagay,Janne Bondi Johannessen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260246

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Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages by Derib Ado,Almaz Wasse Gelagay,Janne Bondi Johannessen Pdf

The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in the history of Ethiopian linguistics, two chapters are dedicated to descriptive studies of Ethiopian Sign Language, as well as two studies on acoustic phonetics. Topics range over a wide spectrum of issues covering the lexicon, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural aspects and micro-linguistic studies on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ethiopian languages.

Author : Ronny Meyer,Bedilu Wakjira,Zelealem Leyew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191044250

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages by Ronny Meyer,Bedilu Wakjira,Zelealem Leyew Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.

Author : Zelealem Leyew
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015058212500

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The Kemantney Language by Zelealem Leyew Pdf

Author : Marvin Lionel Bender
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000293334

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Language in Ethiopia by Marvin Lionel Bender Pdf

This comprehensive study is the result of research by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, all with a particular interest in Ethiopia. The first part of the book contains an important classification of Ethiopian languages, looks at their distribution and studies some special language situations. The second part describes the official status of languages, the effects of migrations, urbanization and education, and discusses the spread of Amharic and patterns of bilingualism. The third part analyses in detail the organization of language teaching and teacher training in Ethiopia.

Author : Ronny Meyer,Renate Richter
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000092691272

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Language Use in Ethiopia from a Network Perspective by Ronny Meyer,Renate Richter Pdf

"This publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3,500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published here for the first time and are representative for a typical Ethiopian town. These data outline the development of multilingualism over three generations (students/parents/grandparents) and elucidate factors which promote the spread of multilingualism. The frame for the representation and explanation of the data is an adapted model of the social network theory."

Author : Ronny Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198728542

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The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages by Ronny Meyer Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly.

Author : Firew Girma Worku
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004449916

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A Grammar of Mursi by Firew Girma Worku Pdf

This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.

Author : Wolf Leslau
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Argobba language
ISBN : 3447039558

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Ethiopic Documents by Wolf Leslau Pdf

Author : Erin Wilkinson,Jill P. Morford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003812876

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Understanding Signed Languages by Erin Wilkinson,Jill P. Morford Pdf

Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language, with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world. Readers will learn about language through a unique set of signed language studies that will surprise them with the diversity of ways human languages achieve the same functional goals of communication. Designed for students with no prior knowledge of signed languages or linguistics, this book features: A comprehensive introduction to the sub-fields of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, linguistic structure, language change, language acquisition, and bilingualism; Examples from more than 50 of the world’s signed languages and a brief “Language in Community” snapshot in each chapter highlighting one signed language and the researchers who are documenting it; Opportunities to reflect on how language ideologies have shaped scientific inquiry and contributed to linguistic bias; Review and discussion questions, useful websites, and pointers to additional readings and resources at the end of each chapter. Understanding Signed Languages provides instructors with a primary or secondary text to enliven the discourse in introductory classes in linguistics, interpreting, deaf education, disability studies, cognitive science, human diversity, and communication sciences and disorders. Students will develop an appreciation for the language-specific and universal characteristics of signed languages and the global communities in which they emerge.

Author : Jennifer Cabrelli,Adel Chaouch-Orozco,Jorge González Alonso,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares,Eloi Puig-Mayenco,Jason Rothman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108962742

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The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition by Jennifer Cabrelli,Adel Chaouch-Orozco,Jorge González Alonso,Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares,Eloi Puig-Mayenco,Jason Rothman Pdf

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing. It features 30 approachable chapters covering topics such as multilingual language acquisition, education, language maintenance and language loss, multilingual code-switching, ageing in the multilingual brain, and many more. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of the state of the art in its topic, while offering comprehensive access to the specialized literature, through carefully curated citations. It also serves as a methodological resource for researchers in the field, offering chapters on methods such as case studies, corpora, artificial language systems or statistical modelling of multilingual data.

Author : Mauro Tosco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cushitic languages
ISBN : UOM:39015055829843

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The Dhaasanac Language by Mauro Tosco Pdf

Author : Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781036404505

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A History of Women's Contributions to Linguistics by Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal Pdf

The author of this essay confesses that she has practised an exhumation exercise: an overwhelming work of research in which many names are hardly known (let alone recognised). The challenges of a work for which there is little precedent, and which was absolutely necessary, are numerous and varied: from the absence of documentation (or the difficulty of accessing it) to the over-representation of a large handful of linguists as opposed to the practical invisibility of the majority, to cite only the most obvious. Nevertheless, the result is an enjoyable and pedagogical read which documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women who have worked in language-related disciplines. The book explores Western and Eastern sources in order to do justice to all those women who make this book meaningful.

Author : Michael Bryan Ahland
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Amharic language
ISBN : 1556712278

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Language Death in Mesmes by Michael Bryan Ahland Pdf

In this book, Language Death in Mesmes, the author presents an historical examination of sound change and other developments in the very-nearly extinct Gurage language known as Mesmes while also considering the linguistic and social environments in which the language has been lost. The study provides evidence for Mesmes' linguistic relatedness with the other Gurage languages and with the Peripheral West Gurage subgroup in particular. The account also considers the impact of phenomena related to language loss and the linguistic effects of contact with Hadiyya, the language to which the Mesmes people have shifted today. The comparative work relies on previously published sources as well as unpublished fieldnotes and also provides the first fully annotated and interlinearized Mesmes text. This examination underscores that historical-comparative work may benefit from serious consideration of external, contact-related phenomena while at the same time not compromising a commitment to shared innovations as determined by the Comparative Method.

Author : Ronny Meyer,Lutz Edzard
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African studies
ISBN : 3447107456

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Time in Languages of the Horn of Africa by Ronny Meyer,Lutz Edzard Pdf

The contributions in this volume emerge from presentations held within the panel ?Time in the Languages of the Horn of Africa? at the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Warsaw, 2015): ?Ethiopia - Diversity and Interconnections through Space and Time?. The purpose of this panel was to develop a better understanding of time concepts in languages spoken at the Horn of Africa, and to gain new insights into typological and areallinguistic issues related to the expression of time in these languages. 0Two research topics dominated the presentations: in-depth studies on tense/aspect systems of individual languages, and typological contrastive comparisons of specific tense/aspect features in closely related languages. The first section deals with tense/aspect phenomena in individual mostly Ethio-Semitic languages. Topics are Ge'ez static verbs, Gumer perfective/imperfect aspect, particular parts of the Amharic tense/aspect system (two contributions), and tense/aspect in the Cushitic language Oromo (a non-Ethio-Semitic language). The second section contains three comparative studies of tense/aspect phenomena in various Ethio-Semitic languages.

Author : Wolf Leslau
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : 3447041625

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Zway Ethiopic Documents by Wolf Leslau Pdf