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JOSEF TROPPER and REBECCA HASSELBACH-ANDEE, Classical Ethiopic. A Grammar of Gəʕəz
Journal of Semitic Studies. 2023. Vol. 68. No. 1. P. e11-e23.
The book Classical Ethiopic. A Grammar of Gəʕəz is an English translation of Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch. Grammatik des Ge‘ez mit Übungstexten and Glossar published in 2002 and since then serving as the only comprehensive modern description of Classical Ethiopic (also known as Old Ethiopic, or Gəʕz). The present review evaluates the English version and takes the opportunity of commenting on the general state of arts in the linguistic studies of Classical Ethiopic.
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Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677-720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
Added: December 25, 2020
Bulakh M., Nosnitsin D., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2019 Vol. 82 No. 2 P. 315-350
This contribution offers to the readers a publication and translation (with linguistic and philological commentaries) of a recently discovered piece of Old Amharic poetry, possibly dating to the first half/middle of the 17th century. The published text bears the title Märgämä kəbr (“Condemnation of glory”), but its content differs from that of several other Old ...
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Amsalu T., Bulakh M., , in : The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. : Oxford University Press, 2023. Ch. 24. P. 500-531.
Added: June 27, 2023
Bulakh M., Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 2016 Vol. 106 P. 385-390
A review of a recently published grammar of Tigre (North Ethio-Semitic) by David Elias. ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2019 Vol. 139 No. 4 P. 893-906
Thirty years after the appearance of Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of
Geʿez, the present study aims at correcting and updating some of the entries of this
major tool of Semitic etymology. New data from Ugaritic, Akkadian, and especially
Modern South Arabian are prominent among the additions (particularly the
Soqotri lexical material acquired in the course of the many years ...
Added: February 20, 2020
М. : Academia, 2013
Книга подготовлена в рамках многотомного энциклопедического издания «Языки мира», которое издается Институтом языкознания РАН. Она является вторым выпуском, посвященным описанию семитских языков (ранее в этой серии вышла книга«Языки мира: Семитские языки. Аккадский язык. Северозападносемитские языки». М.: Academia, 2009). Настоящий выпуск открывает общая статья об эфиосемитских языках; далее описываются отдельные языки этой группы в следующем порядке: ...
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Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2023
The present article is the result of the author’s long-time occupation with the etymology of the North Ethiopian/Eritrean language Tigre. The Wörterbuch der Tigré-Sprache (WTS) by Enno Littmann and Maria Höfner has been the only source of lexical information for this study, which seems justified in view of the outstanding merits of this unique ...
Added: November 9, 2023
Bulakh M., Hummel S., Rave T., Aethiopica 2016 Т. 19 С. 90-99
A bibliography for Ethio-Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic linguistics for the years 2014-2015. ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Bulakh M., Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 2017 No. 1 P. 1-30
The article evaluates the aims and methods of creation of the so-called “Arabic-Ethiopic Glossary”, a 14th century word list compiled by order of the Yemenite sultan of the Rasulid dynasty al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī. It claims that the Glossary was created with a purely scientific aim of recording a little-known language, that its compilers ...
Added: April 18, 2018
Oxford University Press, 2023
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Белова О. В., Институт славяноведения РАН, Центр научных работников и преподавателей иудаики в вузах «Сэфер», 2020
The issue “Family and Family Values in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition” of the annual “Slavic and Jewish Culture: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences” includes the papers of the international conference “The Concept of Family in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition” held in Moscow on January 29–31, 2020. The book includes 16 articles by scholars from Russia, Germany, Latvia, ...
Added: November 18, 2020
СПб. : RUGRAM_Пальмира, 2022
Сборник посвящен проблемам изучения творческого наследия авторов неофициальной культуры и составлен на основе материалов научных конференций и семинаров, организованных кафедрой истории русской литературы Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета совместно с Российским государственным гуманитарным университетом (РГГУ, Москва) и Центром Андрея Белого (АБЦ, Санкт-Петербург) при участии Высшей школы экономики и Трирского универитета: «Неподцензурная поэтика: 1950-1980» (23-25.12.2017); «Ленинградская неофициальная литература» ...
Added: July 25, 2022
Sarkisov I., Studia Metrica et Poetica 2021 Vol. 3 No. 3
The article analyzes and classifies the meters used in Thai and Burmese poetry. Though both poetic traditions have a rich literary heritage and an advanced repertoire of poetic meters, their structural properties have not received significant scholarly attention. Along with summarizing preexisting scholarly research on the subject, the article provides description of meters used in ...
Added: July 11, 2021
Gusejnov G., The Russian Journal of Communication 2018 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 1-8
Since the late 1980s, we witnessed vigorous attempts to bury the Soviet intelligentsia along with Soviet literature. Some efforts along these lines were truly inspired (Anninsky, 1992Anninsky, L. (1992). The suppression of the intelligentsia. Will it persist till 2000? [Vytesnenia intelligentsia. Will it persists till 2000?]. Ogonek, № 29-30, pp. 28–29. [Google Scholar]; Yampolsky, 1991Yampolsky, M. (1991). Rape by confession [Iznasilovanny pokaianiem]. Literaturnoe obozrenie, 8, 89–96. [Google Scholar]). And ...
Added: November 1, 2018
Ermolova M., Russian Linguistics 2021 Т. 45 № 2 С. 123-142
The paper analyzes the functioning of the short past passive participles in the predicative position in West Russian Chronicles. The main focus is on the participles which are used without an auxiliary in the past tense and denote the past action. For an adequate analysis of these forms, it is necessary to use the material ...
Added: May 14, 2021
Voigt R., Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2015
The book is the outcome of the III International Enno Littmann Conference held in Berlin in April 2009. Of all the papers presented during this meeting the editor has chosen only papers devoted to the study of the language and culture of the Tigre people. The Tigre language ranks as the fifth most spoken in the Semitic ...
Added: October 21, 2017
Akhunova O., Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies 2022 P. 1-22
The paper is an attempt to clarify a number of difficult places in Pindar’s description
of the Gorgons’ lament in Pythian 12, which have given rise to inconsistent interpretations
and remain insufficiently clear (δυσπενθέϊ σὺν καμάτῳ, 10; εὐπαράου Μεδοίσας, 16;
τὸν … ἐκ καρπαλιμᾶν γενύων χριμφθέντα … γόον, 20-21). The central contention is that
these details are directly relevant ...
Added: October 29, 2020
СПб. : ЦМС им. А.С. Попова, 2023
Сборник методических материалов XIV научно-практического семинара по истории почты, филателии, филокартии: «Почтовая корреспонденция как документальный источник для краеведческих исследований» ...
Added: October 26, 2023
Kim H. R., International Linguistics Research 2023 Vol. 6 No. 3 P. 15-23
Traditionally instruction of speech, grammar and reading in Korean has been carried out in separate educational units. Recently learning the Korean language has shifted from merely mastering grammar to focusing on spoken language and the communication skills. This article sheds the light on the need for integrated language learning activities in the Korean language and ...
Added: December 11, 2023
Anna Rogozhina, Piscataway : Gorgias Press, 2019
This book examines the function and development of the cult of saints in Coptic Egypt, focusing primarily on the material provided by the texts forming the Coptic hagiographical tradition of the early Christian martyr Philotheus of Antioch, and more specifically, the Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch (Pierpont Morgan M583). This Martyrdom is a reflection ...
Added: October 21, 2018
Kim H. R., Russian linguistic Bulletin 2022 № 6(34) Статья 16
В данной статье автор анализирует учебник корейского профессора Дон-мин Хвана, впервые изданный в Москве в 1946 году для вуза. Целью данного исследования является анализ и оценка учебника корейского языка профессора Дон-мина Хвана. Учебник написан в период так называемого исторического хаоса (1910–1950-е годы) и представляет интерес для диахронических исследований учебников корейского языка, изданных в России. В ...
Added: October 21, 2022
Anastasia A. Grigoryeva, Sociolinguistics 2022 No. №1(9) P. 112-126
Protest movements have become one of the most common and efficient forms of social activism in the last decades. Information about protests mainly becomes available through the Mass Media, which view protests from diverse perspectives and have the power to shape the public perception of this activity. The aim of this research is to explore ...
Added: December 31, 2022
М. : Академический научно-издательский, производственно-полиграфический и книгораспространительский центр Российской академии наук "Издательство "Наука", 2022
В шестом томе Большой библиотеки японской поэзии представлена обширная панорама лирики хайку, созданной японскими мастерами стиха с конца Х1Х до конца ХХ вв. За минувшее столетие популярность этого оригинального поэтического жанра в мире необычайно возросла, что сделало японские трехстишия фактически единственным общепризнанным транснациональным поэтическим жанром. Хотя корни поэтики хайку уходят во времена Позднего Средневековья, новую ...
Added: October 28, 2021
Sebryuk A., Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature 2022 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 195-209
This paper builds on the renewed interest in preserving the multiethnic origins of the United States and recognizing a profound impact of the Black experience on the American nation. The article centers on the Gullah language, one of the primary roots of modern African American English and the only remaining English-related Creole language in North ...
Added: May 11, 2022