He bitaney lagge • Studies on Language and African Linguistics in honour of Marcello Lamberti

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