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The Segmental Phonology of Ethiopian Semitic Languages

Master Linguistik Modul 04-046-2013 • Phonologie: Segmentale Phonologie • IGRA 06

WS 2014/2015 • Donnerstag/Thursday 09:15-10:45 • SR H1 5.16, Beethovenstrasse 15

The Ethiopian Semitic languages (i.a. Amharic, Tigrinya, Chaha und Gurage) are close relatives of better known Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, show similar grammatical systems, but also marked differences in detail. In this course we examine 4 central and closely connected phenomena in Ethiopian-Semitic languages, where segmental phonology interacts in especially striking ways with morphological exponence (the phonotactically conditioned distribution of vowels, Root-and-Pattern-Morphology, mobile affixation, consonant mutation/gemination) and discuss these data on the background of recent theoretical phonology approaches to templatic morphology, long-distance assimilation, epenthesis, and consonantal length. Titel: Die segmentale Phonologie äthiopisch-semitischer Sprachen

Die äthiopisch-semitischen Sprachen (u.a. Amharisch, Tigrinya, Chaha und Gurage) sind nahe Verwandte besser bekannter semitischer Sprachen wie Arabisch und Hebräisch, und weisen ähnliche grammatische Grundstrukturen, aber auch markante grammatische Unterschiede auf. In diesem Seminar behandeln wir 4 zentrale und eng miteinander verbundene Phänomene in den äthiopisch-semitischen Sprachen, bei denen segmentale Phonologie besonders deutlich mit morphologischer Exponenz interagiert (die phonotaktisch bedingte Verteilung von Vokalen, Wurzel-und-Muster-Morphologie, mobile Affigierung und Konsonantenmutation bzw. Geminierung) und diskutieren diese Daten anhand aktueller Ansätze aus der theoretischen Phonologie zu templatischer Morphologie, Fern-Assimilation, Epenthese und konsonantischer Länge.


Slides/Folien/Handouts

16. Oktober 2014 OverviewAmharic Roots and Patterns
06. Oktober 2014 Amharic Verb Classes
06. November 2014 Harari Vowel/Consonant Agreement
13. November 2014 Templatic Effects of Passive/Causative/2fsg in Zay
20. November 2014 Chaha Labialization & Patatalization (Part 1Part 2)
27. November 2014 Reduplication in Tigre (SlidesHandout)
04. Dezember 2014 Harari FrequentativeMore Harari
11. Dezember 2014 The OCP: A Summary
15. Januar 2015 Epenthesis in Zay


Papers/Texte

for October 30 2014 Buckley (2000)Buckley (2003)
for November 6 2014 Rose (2004), p.1-18
for November 13 2014 Rose (2004), p.19-41
for November 20 2014 Banksira (2013)
for November 27 2014 Rose (2003)
for December 11 2014 Buckley (1997)
for December 18 2014 Rose (2000a)
for January 15 2015 Rose (2000b)


Literatur(e)

Banksira, Degif Petros (2000) Sound Mutations: The morphophonology of Chaha. John Benjamins.

Banksira, Degif Petros (2013) Chaha Labialization and Palatalization as Coalescence. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages & Linguistics 5(1):159-190.

Buckley, Eugene (1990) Edge-in association and OCP violations in Tigrinya. WCCFL 9: 75-90. Stanford, CA: CSLI.

Buckley, Eugene (1997) Tigrinya root consonants and the OCP. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 4.3, 19-51.

Buckley, Eugene (2000) Alignment and weight in the Tigrinya verb stem. In: Vicki Carstens & Frederick Parkinson (eds.) Advances in African linguistics: 165-176. Africa World Press.

Buckley, Eugene (2003) Emergent vowels in Tigrinya templates. In: Jacqueline Lecarme (ed.) Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: 105-125. John Benjamins.

Faust, Noam (2014) Templatic metathesis in Tigre imperatives. Phonology 31: 209-227.

McCarthy, John J. (1983) Consonantal Morphology in the Chaha Verb. Proceedings of WCCFL 2:176-88.

McCarthy, John J. (1986) Lexical Phonology and Nonconcatenative Morphology in the History of Chaha. Revue quebecoise de linguistique 16(1): 209-227.

Meyer, Ronny (2005) Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Meyer, Ronny (2006) Wolane - Grammar of an East Gurage language (Ethiosemitic). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Prunet, Jean-Francois & Berhanu Chamora (2001) The canonical shapes of Gurage verbs. In: Andrzej Zaborski (ed.) New data and new methods in Afroasiatic linguistics: Robert Hetzron in memoriam: 143-152. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Raz, Shlomo (1983) Tigre grammar and texts. Malibu: Undena Publications.

Rose, Sharon (1997) Theoretical Issues in Comparative Ethio-Semitic Phonology and Morphology. PhD thesis, McGill University.

Rose, Sharon & Rachel Walker (2004) A Typology of Consonant Agreement as Correspondence. Language 80: 475-531.

Rose, Sharon (2000a) Rethinking Geminates, Long-Distance Geminates, and the OCP. Linguistic Inquiry 31(1): 85-122.

Rose, Sharon (2000b) Epenthesis positioning and syllable contact in Chaha. Phonology 17: 397-425.

Rose, Sharon (2003) Triple Take: Tigre and the Case of Internal Reduplication. San Diego Linguistic Papers 1 (2003) 109-128.

Rose, Sharon (2004) Long distance vowel-consonant agreement in Harari. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 25:41-87.

Staroverov, Peter (2014) Splitting and the Typology of Consonant Epenthesis. PhD thesis Rutgers University.

Trommer, Jochen (2008) A feature-geometric approach to Amharic verb classes In: Bachrach A. & Nevins A. (eds.) Inflectional Identity: 206-236. Oxford University Press. Slides

Rainer Voigt (1977) Das tigrinische Verbalsystem. Berlin: Reimer.

Wetter, Andreas (2010) Das Argobba. Eine deskriptive Grammatik der Varietät von Shonke und T'ollaha (Zentraläthiopien). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Zimmermann, Eva & Jochen Trommer (2014) Generalized Mora Affixation and Quantity-Manipulating Morphology. Phonology 31.3.


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Institut für Linguistik
Universität Leipzig

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