{"title":"Grammaticalization of qәl ‘gourd’ in Amharic","authors":"O. Gensler","doi":"10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.212","url":null,"abstract":"The Amharic word qəl ‘gourd’ represents a rare case where a plant term serves as the source of a grammaticalization chain. The development occurred in two stages, first metaphoric change, then grammaticalization proper: gourd > skull/head > Intensive (never Plain) Reflexive (‘he himself, etc.’). This process was entangled with the grammatical evolution of two other words, ras and gəll. Ras, which is the basic unmarked term for ‘head’, as such underwent the basic unmarked grammaticalization into a Plain Reflexive (and only secondarily into an Intensive Reflexive). The other word, gəll ‘separate, individual’, phonetically quite similar to qəl but with no etymological connection to ‘head’, grammaticalized directly to the meaning ‘one’s own, by oneself’, thence secondarily to an Intensive Reflexive (but never a Plain Reflexive). Thus two near-synonyms (qəl, ras ‘head’) underwent two parallel grammaticalizations, but yielding different results: qəl, unlike ras, was never a Plain Reflexive. Why? The distinctive semantic evolution of qəl, I suggest, was partly driven by its phonetic similarity to the historically unrelated gəll, which also was never a Plain Reflexive. The phonetic similarity helped to foster a semantic attraction between the two grammaticalizing morphemes.","PeriodicalId":80378,"journal":{"name":"Afrika und Ubersee","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67144358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mäsob: Designing a new Amharic coursebook","authors":"M. Krżyzanowska","doi":"10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.213","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a project to design a new Amharic coursebook which draws upon current approaches to language teaching, and will provide stimulating learning materials for its users. The coursebook will target university students at A1 level, and in its content and structure will aim, for the first time in the history of Amharic language teaching, to conform to the spirit of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Topic-based and task-based syllabi will form the backbone of the coursebook. It will contain a range of activities in which students, while learning grammar, are engaged in using new language in a meaningful, communicative way. Apart from developing the usual four language skills, among which priority will be given to oral practice, the coursebook will help students to acquire cultural competence and support them in improving their language learning strategies.","PeriodicalId":80378,"journal":{"name":"Afrika und Ubersee","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67144364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friedrich, Patricia 2014. Afrikanische Silbenspiele. Betrachtet im Kontext von Sondersprachen. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik 21). Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang.","authors":"Yvonne Treis","doi":"10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15460/auue.2020.93.1.219","url":null,"abstract":"Auf der ganzen Welt spielt man mit Sprache und manipuliert man Sprache. Sprecher tun dies ganz bewusst aus Spas an der Freude, um Nachrichten verschlusselt weiterzugeben oder Worter zu vermeiden. Das hier rezensierte Buch von Patricia Friedrich widmet sich einer besonderen Form von Sprachmanipulation, den Silbenspielen in Afrika. Die Autorin untersucht die formalen Merkmale dieser Sprachspiele im Sprachvergleich, beschaftigt \u0000sich mit den soziolinguistischen Aspekten ihres Gebrauchs und vergleicht ihre Formen und Funktionen mit denen von anderen in Afrika zu findenden Arten von Sprachmanipulation.","PeriodicalId":80378,"journal":{"name":"Afrika und Ubersee","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67144417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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