Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed is involved.
Articles
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
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