The Title’s opening words in Wolaytta, He bitaney lagge, ‘That man is a friend’, are taken from the corpus recorded in Ethiopia by Marcello Lamberti himself and published in the Appendix 4 of the The Wolaytta Language (Studia Linguarum Africae Orientalis • 6; see page XVII below). The original transcription has been adapted to the new Wolaytta orthographic conventions.
This volume is a tribute to Marcello Lamberti, a great scholar and a true friend to all of us.
Colleagues, friends, and former students have joined here in the occasion of Marcello’s sixtieth birthday. Many of the contributions in this volume are directly or indirectly inspired to Marcello’s scholarship and work.
Marcello Lamberti is known for his twofold love for both Indo-European and Cushitic studies. This love, tuned into a mission, prompted him to apply the historical-comparative method, as developed and refined in Indo-European linguistics, to Afro-Asiatic languages, and more specifically to Cushitic and the languages of the Horn of Africa. Everything flows from here: Marcello’s historical and etymological reconstructions, his classificatory proposals, his descriptive work.
Author(s): Sergio BALDI et al.
Series: Quaderni di Lingua e Storia 3
Publisher: Qu.A.S.A.R. s.r.l.
Year: 2011
Language: English; Italian; German
Pages: 292
City: Milano
Tags: Linguistics; Africanistics; African Studies; Phonology; Graphemics; Morphology; Syntax; Lexicon
He bitaney lagge • Studies on Language and African Linguisticsin honour of Marcello Lamberti
Contents:
Foreword XIII
Preface XV
Publications by Marcello Lamberti XVII
Sergio Baldi – Rudolf Leger
Arabic Loans in Bole-Tangale. A closer look to Bole, Karekare, Ngamo, Kupto and Kwami 3
Václav Blažek
Surmic Numerals in the East Cushitic Perspective 15
Vermondo Brugnatelli
Some grammatical features of Ancient Eastern Berber (the language of the Mudawwana) 29
Luca Busetto
Note sull’adattamento e codifica della scrittura latina in Africa 41
Guido Cifoletti
Sulla poesia dei Begia 51
Grover Hudson
Amharic rs Pronouns 55
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
Binäre Oppositionen im Tschadischen 67
Olga Kapeliuk
Creating Adverbs in Amharic 81
Ilaria Micheli
Two Points in Kulango Grammar: I. Analytic Equivalents for Fossilized Verb Extensions; II. the Diminutive Alteration 91
Abdirachid Mohamed Ismail
Somali Focus and topic system: a global analysis 103
Moreno Morani
Alcune riflessioni sui prestiti siriaci in armeno 123
Umberto Rapallo
Dalle teorie del “campo” alla ricostruzione etimologica e alle convergenze linguistiche 143
Graziano Savà
Bayso (Cushitic), a typologically interesting endangered language of Ethiopia 163
Roberto Sottile
Personal Pronouns and Object Marking in Basketo 175
Gábor Takács
Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting I: Omotic *b- with dentals, sibilants, and velars 183
Livia Tonelli
Das Oromo von Somalia: Ansätze einer linguistischen Beschreibung 201
Mauro Tosco
On language, government, and the reduction of linguistic diversity 211
Martine Vanhove
Towards a semantic map of the Optative in Beja (North-Cushitic) 231
Rainer Voigt
Oromo studies and literature in the first half of the 19th century 247
Andrzej Zaborski
New Examples of (yu-)qātilu as One of the Basic Imperfect Stems in Arabic 261
