Azeb Amha

List of John Benjamins publications for which Azeb Amha plays a role.

Articles

Rasenberg, Marlou, Azeb Amha, Matt Coler, Marjo van Koppen, E. van Miltenburg, Lynn de Rijk, Wyke Stommel and Mark Dingemanse 2023 Reimagining language: Towards a better understanding of language by including our interactions with non-humansLinguistics in the Netherlands 2023, Leufkens, Sterre and Marco Bril (eds.), pp. 309–317 | Article
What is language and who or what can be said to have it? In this essay we consider this question in the context of interactions with non-humans, specifically: animals and computers. While perhaps an odd pairing at first glance, here we argue that these domains can offer contrasting perspectives… read more
Amha, Azeb 2009 WolaittaCoding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages, Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (ed.), pp. 355–384 | Article
Three strategies are used for participant identification in Wolaitta, an Omotic language spoken in south Ethiopia. These include direct marking, i.e., participant marking on nominals themselves through case affixes; participant marking on the verb and word order. Of the three, direct marking is the… read more
In Omotic, grammatical gender that is expressed through agreement between associated words and equally affecting animate and inanimate nouns is not common. Rather, the system of gender-marking in Omotic mostly involves direct-marking on the noun and it is semantically determined, i.e., the system… read more
Amha, Azeb 2001 Ideophones and compound verbs in WolaittaIdeophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 49–62 | Article