Azeb Amha
List of John Benjamins publications in which Azeb Amha is involved.
2023 Reimagining language: Towards a better understanding of language by including our interactions with non-humans Linguistics 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
2009 Wolaitta Coding 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
2008 Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, Bengtson, John D. (ed.), pp. 39–48 | Article
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
2001 Ideophones and compound verbs in Wolaitta Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 49–62 | Article