Michael Ahland
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Ahland plays a role.
Articles
2015 The functions of Non-Final verbs and their aspectual categories in Northern Mao (Omotic) narrative Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. and Shahar Shirtz (eds.), pp. 81–116 | Article
Northern Mao (Afroasiatic-Omotic) employs a set of non-final (medial/converb) verbs and aspectual morphology to distinguish events on the main storyline from background comment in narrative discourse. These verb-forms include same-subject (ss) and different-subject (ds) (medial verb-like) and… read more
2012 Review of Norde (2009): Degrammaticalization Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 183–192 | Review
2009 From topic to subject: Grammatical change in the Amharic possessive construction Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 685–717 | Article
The predicative possessive construction in Amharic exhibits a mismatch in grammatical coding: the possessor receives object marking on the verb while the overt NP exhibits phenomena associated with nominative case in Amharic. This article investigates the mismatch in light of its historical… read more