Degif Petros Banksira

List of John Benjamins publications in which Degif Petros Banksira is involved.

Title

Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha

Degif Petros Banksira

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound… read more

[Not in series, 93] 2000. xxxii, 332 pp.

Article

Banksira, Degif Petros 2014 Regularities in irregular Chaha verbs The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean Lowenstamm, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli (eds.), pp. 163–176 | Article

This paper demonstrates that the most irregular verb stems of Chaha display striking communalities, and argues that this lends support to a root-and-template based analysis of Semitic word formation. It derives the irregularities by pairing the root with the Perfective, Imperfective or Imperative… read more