Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed plays a role.

Articles

Vanhove, Martine and Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed 2021 Olfactory, gustatory and tactile perception in Beja (North-Cushitic)The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 175–198 | Chapter
This chapter studies the perception words associated with the so-called “lower senses” (olfaction, gustatory and tactile perceptions) in Beja, a Cushitic language spoken mainly in Sudan, from three different perspectives. The first one concerns the organization of the related lexicon from the… read more
Vanhove, Martine and Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed 2018 Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic)Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 51–80 | Article
The evaluative morphology of Beja consists of four devices: gender shift to feminine on nouns, and sound change (r>l) on nouns, verbs and adjectives form the diminutives. A suffix -loːj on adjectives, and -l on Manner converbs, form the augmentatives. The analysis focuses on the evaluative,… read more