Michael Ahland

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Ahland is involved.

Articles

Ahland, Michael 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

Ahland, Michael 2012 Review of Norde (2009): Degrammaticalization Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 183–192 | Review

Ahland, Michael 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