Zelealem Leyew

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zelealem Leyew is involved.

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Leyew, Zelealem 2024 Chapter 5. Notes on glottonyms and ethnonyms in Ethiopian languages Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 104–134 | Chapter
This paper gives a grammatical and sociolinguistic account of glottonyms and ethnonyms in Ethiopian languages. As a metonymic relationship, glottonyms are derived from ethnonyms by attaching the roots of the vocal organs: ‘mouth’, ‘tongue’ and ‘tooth’. The mouth-based glottonyms are widespread… read more
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