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The article deals with the problem of the phonetic status of the glottal stop in Harari (Southern Ethiopian Semitic). Special attention is paid to the opposition between the glottal stop and zero, which is the key aspect of the problem under investigation. The behavior of the glottal stop in various positions in a word is analyzed, minimal pairs illustrating the contrast between the glottal stop and other consonants (as well as 0) are presented, and the paradigmatically significant oppositions are investigated.
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Medushevsky K., , in: Двадцать вторая Конференция по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей. Тезисы докладов (Санкт-Петербург, 27–29 ноября 2025 г.).: СПб.: ИЛИ РАН, 2025. P. 157–160.
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Sieber I., Starchenko A., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 1 С. 105–135
The paper examines two interrelated topics from Chukchi phonetics: the status of the glottal stop as a segment or prosody and the rules for stem doubling in incomplete reduplications that form the nominative singular. We create a database comprising 181 inflectional reduplications. Reduplications containing a glottal stop and therefore located “at the junction” of these ...
Added: January 15, 2026
Volkonskaya M. A., В кн.: Первый грамматический трактат. Текст. Комментарий. Исследования.: М.: МЦНМО, 2024. С. 114–130.
This paper compares the works of two distinguished medieval phonologists and spelling reformers of the 12th century, namely, Orm’s Ormulum (England) and the so-called First Grammatical Treatise (Iceland), which mark a significant step in medieval grammatical theory and show a number of similarities in the intellectual background, governing principles, and sources of their orthography. However, ...
Added: March 7, 2025
Krzyżanowska M., Ghion-Hamadu K., Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2023 Vol. 26 P. 226–231
A bibliography of publications in English, German, French, Italian, Amharic, Russian etc. dealing with Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics, published in 2022. ...
Added: March 6, 2025
Taktasheva E., Bazhukov M., Koncha K. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. P. 9268–9299.
Minimal pairs are a well-established approach to evaluating the grammatical knowledge of language models. However, existing resources for minimal pairs address a limited number of languages and lack diversity of language-specific grammatical phenomena. This paper introduces the Russian Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (RuBLiMP), which includes 45k pairs of sentences that differ in grammaticality and ...
Added: January 2, 2025
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2025 Vol. 175 No. 1 P. 29–59
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Bulakh M., Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 2023 Vol. 44 No. 1 P. 1–23
South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1sg/1pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1pl suffix is often employed in the ...
Added: July 7, 2023
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., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.: Oxford University Press, 2023. Ch. 28 P. 607–640.
Tigrinya is the working language of the Tigray National Regional State (Ethiopia) and of the government of Eritrea. It is also spoken in Ethiopian and Eritrean diaspora in Israel, Europe, and the USA. Most of its speakers are Christians. The language is used in mass media, education, and administration. Tigrinya orthography is based on the ...
Added: June 26, 2023
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
Bulakh M., 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 ...
Added: November 9, 2022
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 235–325
North Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic idiom used by Argobba communities in the villages of Shonke and T’ollaha (Oromiya zone of Amhara region of Ethiopia). One of the most striking features of North Argobba is the presence of the gutturals ʔ, ʕ, h, and ḥ as distinct phonemes. While the importance of this feature has ...
Added: November 9, 2021
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
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
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 ...
Added: July 27, 2019
Bulakh M., , in: The Semitic Languages. Second Edition.: L., NY: Routledge, 2019. Ch. 8 P. 174–201.
The chapter presents the language Tigrinya, spoken in Eritrea and in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The description presents the essential fact on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short example of a literary text on Tigrinya, provided with a linguistic glossing. ...
Added: March 21, 2019