Universität Wien

141272 VO Afroasiatic Language 1: Amharic (2024S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
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Details

max. 38 participants
Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 14.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 21.03. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 11.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 18.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 25.04. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 02.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 16.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 23.05. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 06.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 13.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 20.06. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course wants to provide an introduction to the study of the Modern South Arabian languages. A selection of texts from different Modern South Arabian languages will be analysed in class and commented from a Semitic and typological comparative perspective.

Assessment and permitted materials

The term paper can be elaborated with the support of dictionaries and further material which will be provided in class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation to classes and submission of the term paper are the minimum requirements to pass this course. Participation is mandatory, two classes can be missed.

Examination topics

Term paper (translation and linguistic analysis of a short text in a chosen Modern South Arabian variety) to be submitted after the end of the course; after the evaluation of the paper, brief in-person discussion focused on the term paper.
50% of the evaluation will depend on the term paper, 30% on the oral exam and 20% on class participation.

Reading list

Kogan, Leonid. 2015. Genealogical Classification of Semitic: The Lexical Isoglosses. Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 467-79
Lonnet, Antoine. 2017. Modern South Arabian ikoteb is not necessarily iparras or yenagger. In: Sabrina Bendjaballah & Philippe Ségéral (eds), Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 9(1): 265290.
Porkhomovsky, Victor. 1997. Modern South Arabian languages from a Semitic and HamitoSemitic perspective. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 27: 219223.
Watson, Janet C.E., Abdullah al-Mahri, Ali al-Mahri & Bxayta Musallam Khor al-Mahri (2020). Teghamk Affyat: A Course in the Mehri of Dhofar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Association in the course directory

WM-9; Alt: WM-12
BA-Afrika: SAS-A, SAS-B
EC-647
MA-Afrika: SAS.VO.1, SAS.VO.2

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