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The semantics and pragmatics of Amharic spatial expressions
Aethiopica. 2020. Vol. 23. P. 315–316.
Asaye G. A.
This dissertation describes the semantic and pragmatic contents of spatial expressions in Amharic, with particular focus on the variety spoken in Godʒdʒam.
Asaye G. A., Zena-lissan. Journal of the Ethiopian Languages Research Center 2017 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 65–89
This article examines spatial frame of reference in Amharic, particularly in the Godʒdʒam variety and identifies the main types of reference frame in the language. To attain the objective, real objects including culturally relevant materials are used as stimulating scenes. The study has identified that Amharic employs absolute, intrinsic and relative coordinate systems, but the ...
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Asaye G. A., Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 2018 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 181–192
The aim of this paper is to analyze morpho-phonological processes in Amharic, in particular in the variety spoken in Godʒdʒam. The focus of the paper is those morpho-phonological processes that have been overlooked in the previous works. The study has identified that metathesis of vowels accompanied by devocalization is one of the most peculiarities of ...
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Asaye G. A., Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 2019 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 97–102
The book under review is the improved version of the author‟s previous work entitled Modern Amharic Grammar in a Simple Presentation(Getahun,1998). ...
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Asaye G. A., Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication 2019 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 55–75
This paper aims at analyzing conceptual metaphors of time as realized in Amharic spatial expressions. The paper is written within the framework of conceptual metaphor theory developed by Lakoff & Johnson (1980). In this theory, language is viewed as providing data that can show human beings conceive concepts (Lakoff & Johnson 2003). The study examines ...
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Asaye G. A., Aethiopica 2020 Vol. 23 P. 168–187
Amharic belongs to the transversal group of the South Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Ethiopian Semitic subfamily, the Semitic family of the Afroasiatic phylum. According to the Population Census Commission, Ethiopian people speak Amharic as a first language. It is the second most populous Semitic language after Arabic. It was the only language of education in Ethiopian primary ...
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Asaye G. A., Journal of Ethiopian Studies 2021 Vol. 54 No. 2 P. 25–52
This paper aims at investigating metaphorical conceptions of life and death in Amharic from the perspective of cognitive semantics, specifically conceptual metaphor theory. In this theory, language is viewed as providing data that can show human beings conceive concepts (Lakoff & Johnson 2003: 116). The analysis shows that the Amharic speech community can metaphorically conceptualize ...
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Asaye G. A., Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 2021 Vol. 42 No. 1 P. 1–26
This paper describes the semantics of static locative expressions in Amharic, particularly the variety spoken in Godʒdʒam. The analysis shows that the semantic category of a site subsumed under Path is exclusively expressed by an adposition. The adpositions can be specific and general locatives. The specific locatives show a specific type of topological relation (for ...
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