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title: "Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics"
description: "It does not test a hypothesis. 44 references. Among them: 0."
authors: ["Maria Bulakh", "Susanne Hummel", "Francesca Panini"]
year: 2018
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# Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016

**Authors:** [Maria Bulakh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-bulakh/), [Susanne Hummel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susanne-hummel/) and [Francesca Panini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesca-panini/) · **Year:** 2018 · **Venue:** [Aethiopica 20](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aethiopica/) ([Aethiopica 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aethiopica/2018/)) · **Publisher:** [Hamburg University Press](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/hamburg-university-press/) · **Licence:** [CC BY-SA (journal licence per DOAJ; Aethiopica)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

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## Summary
This is the twentieth yearly instalment of a running bibliography on the Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia and the Horn. It does not test a hypothesis. It is a curated catalogue of linguistic publications from 2016. The compilers, Bulakh, Hummel and Panini, group the entries into thematic and genetic sections: edited volumes (Miscellanea), Ethiopian Afrasian in general, Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and so on. A later block catches up on items from 2014–2015 that earlier volumes missed. Each record gives full bibliographic data. Titles in Amharic, Japanese or Russian appear in the original script, with a transliteration and an English gloss. Ethiopian-calendar dates are converted to CE, and the entry flags when a broader work only partly covers an Ethiopian language. The collection spans philology and lexicography of Gǝʿǝz, Amharic and Gurage grammar and tense/aspect, sociolinguistics, orthography design, and dictionaries. It also includes a small computational strand: tag sets, annotated corpora and digital tools. The bibliography matters because it gives a single entry point to scattered, multilingual work on under-resourced languages.

## Key points
- The 2016 list is built around three edited volumes: *150 Years after Dillmann's Lexicon* on Gǝʿǝz studies, *Multilingual Ethiopia* (Oslo Studies in Language 8/1), and a third collection examining how Horn of Africa languages encode time.
- The computational items include:
  - Hummel & Dickhut's part-of-speech tag set for Ancient Ethiopic;
  - Vertan's computational tools for Classical Ethiopic;
  - Rychlý & Suchomel's "Annotated Amharic Corpora" (TSD 2016, LNAI 9924);
  - Tsegay Woldemariam's TIGTAGS morphosyntactic tagset for Tigrinya corpora (2014).
- Editorial and transcription issues get explicit attention. Examples are Bausi on editing and normalizing Ethiopic texts and Bulakh on problems of transcribing Gǝʿǝz.
- Several orthography proposals for minority languages appear, covering Halaabissa, Komo, Dobbi and Dhiraytata. There are also new multilingual dictionaries: Kambatissa–Amharic–English, Dime–Amharic–English, and Saaho–Tigrinya–Amharic–English.
- The bibliography uses cross-reference entries ("see X") so that each co-authored work is recorded only once.

## Interesting ideas
- Each multi-author work has one canonical record, and the other authors point to it through "see" stubs instead of duplicating it, which keeps the catalogue consistent.
- Non-Latin titles keep three layers: the original script, a transliteration, and an English gloss, so no information is lost and the entry stays searchable.
- Dates in a local calendar are stored together with their converted value (for example 2009 EC = 2016/2017 CE), and the ambiguity of the conversion is kept rather than hidden.
- An entry that only partly falls within scope is marked "including Amharic" or similar, instead of being forced in or dropped.
- Late-discovered items from earlier years go into a separate addenda section, so the main yearly list stays clean while still reaching completeness.

## For Mova

How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests:

- **I1** (world): Entities with several surface names in the knowledge graph could get one canonical node, with lightweight alias nodes pointing to it, so that facts are never split across duplicates.
- **I2** (tokens): Foreign-script or transliterated tokens could carry the original form, a normalized romanization and a gloss as separate fields, so the tagger can use the gloss while the output can still restore the original.
- **I3** (world): Time expressions could be stored as ranges carrying their source system, so that event ordering stays honest when a conversion allows two possible years.
- **I4** (answer): Answers built from a source that covers the question only partly could carry an explicit partial-coverage flag, which helps the reader judge how reliable the answer is.
- **I5** (learn): Newly found silver or teacher annotations for already-closed evaluation sets could go into a dated addenda split, which keeps past benchmark numbers reproducible.

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## Cite

Cite as: Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel and Francesca Panini. 2018. Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016. Aethiopica 20.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{bulakh2018bibliography,
  title = {{Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016}},
  author = {Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel and Francesca Panini},
  booktitle = {Aethiopica 20},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.15460/aethiopica.20.1.1201},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.20.1.1201}
}
```

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## References

44 references, 1 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

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6. Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, and Francesca Panini G REEN , C HRISTOPHER R. and M ICHELLE E. M ORRISON , ‘Somali wordhood and its relationship to prosodic structure’, Morphology, 26/1 (2016), 3–32. G UTA L EGESE , ‘Error analysis in billboard advertisements written in Afan Oromo in Jimma town’, Journal of Languages and Culture, 7/6 (2016), 62–68. M ORRISON , M ICHELLE E.: see G REEN , C HRISTOPHER R. M OUS , M AARTEN : see O RKAYDO , O NGAYE O DA . N IGUSSIE M ESHESHA M ITIKE and K JELL M AGNE Y RI , ‘Sociopolitical Discourse and Communication in Sidaama Folk Media’, in Multilingual Ethiopia, 339–357. N ILSSON , M ORGAN , ‘Somali gender polarity revisited’, in D ORIS L. P AYNE , S ARA P ACCHIAROTTI , and M OKAYA B OSIRE , eds, Diversity in African languages: Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Contemporary African Linguistics, 1 (Berlin: Language Science Press, 2016), 451–466. N INOMIYA , T AKASHI , ‘ ハディーヤ語における動詞語幹末と 人称接辞 の間で起 き る変化 (The Changes Occurring at the Boundary of Verbal Stems and Pronominal Suffixes in Hadiyya)’, Studies in Ethiopian Languages, 5 (2016), 66–80 (in Japanese). — ‘ ハディーヤ語の基礎語彙 (1) (Basic Vocabulary of Hadiyya (1))’, Studies in Ethiopian Languages, 5 (2016), 81–95 (in Japanese). O RKAYDO , O NGAYE O DA and M AARTEN M OUS , ‘Subject clitics in Konso’, Nordic Journal of African Studies, 25/1 (2016), 23–51. S HIMELIS M AZENGIA , ‘Aspect and Tense in Oromo’, in Time in Languages, 117–137. —, ‘Some Observations on Hadiyyisa Orthography’, in Multilingual Ethiopia, 201–218. T ESHOME B ELAY , ‘Phonemic Inventory of Khimt’anga’, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, 6/1 (2016), 29–58. V ANHOVE , M ARTINE , ‘The Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) and its C HAMOREAU and Z ARINA refinitization’, in C LAUDINE E STRADA F ERNÁNDEZ , eds, Finiteness and Nominalization, Typological Studies in Language, 113 (Amsterdam–Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016), 323–344. V OIGT , R AINER , ‘Oromo orthographies in the 19 th and 20 th centuries’, in É LOI F ICQUET , A HMED H ASSEN O MER , and T HOMAS O SMOND , eds, Movements in Ethiopia: Ethiopia in Movement. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, I (Los Angeles: Centre Aethiopica 20 (2017) [find](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Maria+Bulakh%2C+Susanne+Hummel%2C+and+Francesca+Panini+G+REEN+%2C+C+HRISTOPHER+R%2E+and+M+ICHELLE+E%2E+M+ORRISON+%2C+%E2%80%98Somali+wordhood+and+its+relationship+to+prosodic+structure%E2%80%99%2C+Morphology%2C+26%2F1+%282016%29%2C+3%E2%80%9332%2E+G+)
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