Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

 

Monography

2010. Das Argobba. Eine deskriptive Grammatik der Varietät von Shonke und T'ollaha (Zentraläthiopien). Köln: Köppe.

Articles

in Druck (2013). “A Comparative Description of Written Christian and Muslim Amharic”. In Jon Abbink & Shiferaw Bekele, eds., Muslims and Christians in Ethiopia: Socio-historical Perspectives on a Changing Relationship. Leiden - Boston: E.J. Brill.

in Vorb. “Peculiarities of the verbal morphology of the Shonke variety of Argobba”. In Proceedings of 5th World Congress of African Linguistics, Addis Ababa August 7-11, 2006.

2012. "Rhetorical means in a didactic Amharic poem from Wärrä Babbo". Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, 15: 176-203.

2010. “Converbs in Argobba”. In Sascha Völlmin, Azeb Amha, Christian Rapold & Silvia Zaugg-Coretti. Converbs, medial verbs, clause chaining and related issues: Proceedings of the workshop held in December 2006 at Leiden University. (Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter 19, 2007). Köln: Köppe. 99-113.

2006. “The multifunctional morpheme -ga in Argobba”. In Lissan: Journal of African languages & linguistics (Addis Ababa University) 20, 1/2: 149-162.

2006. “The Argobba of T”ollaha - a comparative overview”. In Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg July 20-25, 2003, hrsg. von S. Uhlig. S. 899-907. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2005. (zusammen mit Joachim Crass, Girma A. Demeke, Ronny Meyer) “Copula and focus constructions in selected Ethiopian languages”. In ULPA, Languages and Literatures 25. Leipzig.

2003. “Ideophones in Amharic”. In Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine Lomé 2000 (World Congress of African Linguistics vol. 3), hrsg. von Kézié K. Lébikaza, S. 257-267. Köln: Köppe.

2002. “A new analysis of the alä compound verbs in Amharic based on the grammaticalization theory”. In Ethiopian Studies at the End of the Second Millenium. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, S. 1829-1839. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies.

2001. (zusammen mit Joachim Crass, Barbara Dehnhard, Ronny Meyer) “Von 'Sagen' zum Verbbildungsmorphem: Die Grammatikalisierung des Verbs 'Sagen' einmal anders". In Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 65: 129-141.

Lexicon entries

2014. “Asnaqäčč Wärqu”. In: A. Bausi and S. Uhlig (Hrsg.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 5 Y-Z, Addenda, Index. S. 265-266. Mit Timkehet Teffera.

2007. “Manzuma”. In: S. Uhlig (Hrsg.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 3. S. 754-755. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

2006. “Arabic in Ethiopia”. In: Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2. hrsg. von Kees Versteegh. S. 51-56. Leiden: Brill.

2006. “Ethiopian Semitic Languages”. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 4, hrsg. von Keith Brown. S. 237-239. Oxford: Elsevier.

2005. “Djibouti”. In: Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume (VI), Locations, hrsg. von John Shepherd et al. S. 53-54 .New York: Continuum.

Book Reviews

2013. “Research in Ethiopian Studies: Selected Papers of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Trondheim July 2007. Ed. by Harald Aspen, Birhanu Teferra, Shiferaw Bekele and Svein Ege.” In: Aethiopica 16, 239-244.

2010. “Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Vol. 3 He-N, Ed. by Siegbert Uhlig. Wiesbaden, 2007”. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 105, 4-5: 638-642.

2010. “Essentials of Amharic. Anbessa Teferra and Grover Hudson. Köln, 2007”. In Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 31, 1: 145-148.

2006. “Amharic Cultural Reader. Collected and edited by Wolf Leslau and Thomas L. Kane. Wiesbaden, 2001”. In Oriens Christianus 90: 275-277.

2000. “A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea - the oral and the written 1890-1991. Ghirmai Negash. Leiden, 1999” in Oriens Christianus 84: 277-279.

Other

2005. “Christliches Eiland im Meer des Islam?”. In SympathieMagazin - Äthiopien verstehen. Ammerland: Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung e.V., 47.

2000. “Äthiopien”; Kapitel in Wolfgang Bender Sweet Mother. Afrikanische Musik. Trickster/Peter Hammer.

 

Aktualisiert: Dezember 2012