Time in languages of the Horn of Africa
By: edited by Ronny Meyer and Lutz Edzard
Contributors: International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (19th : 2015 : Warsaw, Poland)
Series: Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Band 107; Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes -- Bd. 107.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9783447107457
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Space and time in language; Congresses; Languages; Tense; Verb
Description: The contributions in this volume emerge from presentations held within the panel ?Time in the Languages of the Horn of Africa? at the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Warsaw, 2015): ?Ethiopia - Diversity and Interconnections through Space and Time?. The purpose of this panel was to develop a better understanding of time concepts in languages spoken at the Horn of Africa, and to gain new insights into typological and areallinguistic issues related to the expression of time in these languages. 0Two research topics dominated the presentations: in-depth studies on tense/aspect systems of individual languages, and typological contrastive comparisons of specific tense/aspect features in closely related languages. The first section deals with tense/aspect phenomena in individual mostly Ethio-Semitic languages. Topics are Ge'ez static verbs, Gumer perfective/imperfect aspect, particular parts of the Amharic tense/aspect system (two contributions), and tense/aspect in the Cushitic language Oromo (a non-Ethio-Semitic language). The second section contains three comparative studies of tense/aspect phenomena in various Ethio-Semitic languages.
Notes: Contributions presented at a panel during the 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 24-28, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On static verbs in Ge̳ʻe̳z  -- Maria Bulakh; title: Time in the Gurage variety of Gumer  -- Fekede Menuta; title: Interaction of time and epistemic modality in Amharic  -- Magdalena Krzyżanowska; title: Metaphors of time in Amharic  -- Derib Ado; title: Aspect and tense in Oromo  -- Shimelis Mazengia; title: Experiencer constructions and the resultative function of impersonal verbs in Ethio-Semitic  -- Lutz Edzard; title: Contrastive analysis of some occurrences in the verbal systems of Amharic and Tigrinya  -- Olga Kapeliuk; title: Emergence of tense in Ethio-Semitic -- Ronny Meyer.