(reverse chronological order)
In preparation:
—with Nicola Duberti and Antonio Romano. Gemination versus glottalization: Evidence from
Piedmontese. Article.
—with Graziella Acquaviva. The origins and development of a Christian lexicon: The Swahili
experience. In: Graziella Acquaviva, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Ilaria Micheli and Mauro Tosco
(eds.), "Not by bread alone:" The cultural impact of missionary work in Africa. Trieste: EUT.
Authored books:
2023:
10. with Nicola Duberti and Emanuele Miola. A Grammar of Piedmontese (“Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages: Romance Languages, 19”). Leiden: Brill [xxviii+570 p.]
2022:
9. [published June 2023]. A Gawwada Dictionary ("Cushitic and Omotic Studies, 9"). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [203 p.]
2021:
8. [published February 2023]. A Grammar of Gawwada ("Cushitic and Omotic Studies, 8"). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [396 p.]
2016:
7. with Graziano Savà. An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli's Dizi Grammar ("Cushitic
and Omotic Studies, 5"). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [185 p.]
2001:
6. The Dhaasanac Language ("Kuschitische Sprachstudien, 17"). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe
[xiv+598 p.].
5. with Alan S. Kaye. Pidgin and Creole Languages: A Basic Introduction. München: Lincom
Europa [114 p.].
1997:
4. Af Tunni. Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary of a Southern Somali Dialect ("Kuschitische S
prachstudien, 12"). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [x + 304 p.].
1991:
3. A Grammatical Sketch of Dahalo, including texts and a glossary ("Kuschitische
Sprachstudien, 8"). Hamburg: Helmut Buske [xv + 179 p.].PDF
2. with Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Testi neo-aramaici dell’Unione Sovietica raccolti da E.
Cerulli. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale [159 p.; in Italian].
1989:
1. Schizzo grammaticale del dialetto Karre di Qoryooley ("Studi Somali, 9"). Roma: Ministero
degli Affari Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Comitato
tecnico-linguistico per l’Università Nazionale Somala [162 p.; in Italian].
Edited Books and Proceedings:
2021:
10. with Marco Tamburelli. Contested Languages: The Hidden Multilingualism of Europe
("Studies in World Language Problems, 8"). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2018:
9. with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic in contact ("Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6"). Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
8. Afroasiatic: Data and Perspectives ("Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339"). Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.
2017:
7. with Benjamin Saade. Advances in Maltese Linguistics ("Studia Typologica, 21"). Berlin: de
Gruyter.
2014:
6. with Carole de Féral and Maarten G. Kossmann. In and Out of Africa. Languages in
Question. In Honour of Robert Nicolaï. Volume 2. Language Contact and Language Change in
Africa ("BCILL, 132"). Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters.
2013:
5. with Alessandro Mengozzi. Sounds and Words through the Ages: Afroasiatic from Turin.
Alessandria: dell’Orso.
2011:
4. with Luca Busetto, Roberto Sottile and Livia Tonelli. "He bitaney lagge". Studies on
Language and African Linguistics in honour of Marcello Lamberti. Milano: Qu.A.S.A.R..
2006:
3. with Pier Giorgio Borbone and Alessandro Mengozzi. Loquentes Linguis. Studi linguistici e
orientali in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti/ Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti/ Lingvistikaj kaj orientaj studoj honore al Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz [xii + 751 p.].
1997:
2. with Alessandro Bausi. Afroasiatica Neapolitana. Articoli presentati all’8° Incontro di
Linguistica Afroasiatica (Camito-Semitica) / Papers from the 8th talian Meeting of Afroasiatic
(Hamito-Semitic) Linguistics ("Studi Africanistici / Serie Etiopica, 6"). Napoli: Istituto
Universitario Orientale / Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi [xii + 315 p.].
1993:
1. with Riccardo Contini and Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Serta Semitica et Philologica
Constantino G. Tsereteli Dicata. Torino: Silvio Zamorani [xxv + 342 p.].
Edited Journal Issues:
2023:
4. with Fabio Gasparini, Federico Gobbo, Evgeniya Gutova, Alessandro Mengozzi and Marco
Moriggi. Liber amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti dicatus. Kervan 27/Special issue.
https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/issue/view/670
2016:
3. with Graziella Acquaviva. Special Issue "Cultural Images of the Plant World: Symbolic
Aspects and Interpretative Perspectives/Immagini culturali del regno vegetale: aspetti simbolici
e prospettive interpretative." Kervan 20.
2014:
2. with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic-based pidgins and creoles: descriptive, comparative and
socio-historical issues. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29/2.
2008:
1. Ausbau and Abstand Languages: Traditional and New Approaches. International Journal of
the Sociology of Language 191.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
Forthcoming 2026:
– with Bonny Sands. Early East African and Cushitic: Contacts between foragers and
pastoralists in early East Africa. In: Maarten Mous and Bonny Sands (eds.), Early linguistic
encounters in East Africa. Language Science Press.
– with Valentina De Iacovo, Antonio Romano and Giulia Zhang. The pervasiveness of
glottalization: Non-pulmonics in Sidaama. In: Bonny Sands, Maida Percival, Anne-Maria
Fehn and Jeremy Coburn (eds.), Non-Pulmonic Consonants (Studies in Phonetics and
Phonology). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
– with Antonio Romano and Valentina De Iacovo. The multi-layered non-pulmonics of Dahalo.
In: Bonny Sands, Maida Percival, Anne-Maria Fehn and Jeremy Coburn (eds.), Non-Pulmonic
Consonants (Studies in Phonetics and Phonology). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
– Whence and whither, you Cushitic Middle? In: Iris Kamil and Marwan Kilani (eds.),
"Messe-t up! Studies on the Afroasiatic verbal t-morpheme", special issue of Brill's Journal of
Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.
2026:
116. with Giulia Zhang. A long, steady, fast-paced and chaotic process: the standardization of
Sidaama and the linguistic landscape of Hawassa (Ethiopia). Ethnorêma 22: 111-141.
115. Non-verbal predication in Cushitic. In: Pier Marco Bertinetto, Denis Creissels and Luca
Ciucci (eds.), Non-verbal Predication: A Typological Survey, 865-913. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2025:
114. Few but enough: on the semantics of the Somali adpositions. In: Klaus Geus, Shabo
Talay and Zeus Wellnhofer (eds.), Erythraea. Äthiopistische und äthiosemitistische Beiträge
für Rainer Voigt zu seinem 80. Geburtstag, 305-322. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
113. Language in the constitutions of Africa: A linguist's critical overview. In: Alireza Korangy
and Evgeniya Gutova (eds.), Multilingualism, identity and language endangerment in Africa,
297-314. Singapore: Springer Nature.
2023:
112. with Nicola Duberti. Early literary Piedmontese: Michele Vopisco's Promptuarium (1564)
and the birth of a koine. In: Serenella Baggio and Pietro Taravacci (eds.). Lingua illustre,
lingua comune. Alessandria: dell'Orso: 287-320.
111. On language,dimensionality and mapping. In: Fabio Gasparini, Federico Gobbo,
Evgeniya Gutova, Alessandro Mengozzi, Marco Moriggi and Mauro Tosco (eds.), Liber
amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti dicatus. Kervan 27/Special issue: 295-309.
https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/8243
110. Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. In: Ursula Reutner (ed.), Manual of Romance Languages
in Africa ("Manuals of Romance Linguistics"). Berlin: de Gruyter: 783-807.
109. with Bonny Sands, Andrew D. Harvey and Maarten Mous. Why Hadza is (probably) not
Afroasiatic: a discussion of Militarev's 'Hadza as Afrasian?' Journal of Language
Relationship/Voprosy Jazykovogo Rodstva 21/1-2: 91-109.
108. General overview of Cushitic. In: Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira and Zelealem Leyew
(eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.Oxford: Oxford University Press:
125-145.
107. Gawwada. In: Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira and Zelealem Leyew(eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 165-197.
2022:
106. What do we mean when we talk of "imperial languages"? In: Serenella Baggio and Pietro
Taravacci (eds.), Lingue nazionali, lingue imperiali. Alessandria: dell'Orso: 345-360.
2021:
105. When plural is a gender: evidence from Gawwada. In: Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle,
Fatouma Mahamoud Hadji Ali et Mohamed Hassan Kamil (éds.), Système nominal et acte de
nommer dans les langues couchitiques de la Corne de l'Afrique. Villejuif: Lacito Publications,
Diversité des langues 1: 63-74.
104. Measuring languageness: fact-checking and debunking a few common myths. DIVE-IN.
An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion 1: 43-51.
103. Too many lingua francas? The strange case of Arabic. In: Serenella Baggio and Pietro
Taravacci (eds.), Lingua franca, lingue franche. Alessandria: dell'Orso: 261-275.
102. From IPA to wildcards: A critical look at some African Latin orthographies. In: Ilaria Micheli, Flavia Aiello, Maddalena Toscano and Lia Pensabene (eds.), Language and identity. Theories and experiences in lexicography and linguistic policies in a global world. Trieste: EUT: 56-83.
101. with Marco Tamburelli. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?
In: Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco (eds.), Contested Languages: The Hidden
Multilingualism of Europe ("Studies in World Language Problems, 8"). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins: 3-17.
100. Democracy: a threat to language diversity? In: Marco Tamburelli and Mauro Tosco (eds.),
Contested Languages: The Hidden Multilingualism of Europe ("Studies in World Language
Problems, 8"). Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 41-56.
99. with Nicola Duberti. Teaching Piedmontese: a challenge? In: Marco Tamburelli and Mauro
Tosco (eds.), Contested Languages: The Hidden Multilingualism of Europe ("Studies in World
Language Problems, 8"). Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 199-207.
2020:
98. East Cushitic. In: Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook
of African Languages. London: Oxford University Press: 290-299.
97. with Graziano Savà. Hunters and Gatherers in East Africa and the Case of Ongota
(Southwest Ethiopia). In: Tom Güldemann, Patrick McConvell and Richard A. Rhodes (eds.),
The Language of Hunter-Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 91-113.
96. The Busta dell'Ascari: war propaganda in Oromo in Latin script from 1940. Kervan 24/1:
39-63.
2019:
95. with Ongaye Oda Orkaydo. Morphological similarity and contact: Plurals, Punctuals and
Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest Ethiopia). In: Rainer Vossen and
Christa König (eds.), Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in Africa. Frankfurter Afrikanistische
Blätter 27/28 (2015-2016). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe: 171-193.
2018:
94. with Stefano Manfredi. Juba Arabic (Árabi Júba): a "less indigenous" language of South
Sudan. Sociolinguistic Studies 12/2 (Special Issue: Arabic between tradition and
globalization): 209-230.
93. with Graziella Acquaviva. Talking the illness: Swahili for medical aid and cooperation in
Turin. Kervan 22: 169-194.
92. Con un occhio all'altopiano: spazio e movimento in gawwada (Etiopia). In: Lidia
Costamagna, Elisa Di Domenico, Alejandro Marcaccio, Stefania Scaglione, and Barbara
Turchetta (eds.), Mutamento linguistico e biodiversità: Atti del XLI Convegno della Società
Italiana di Glottologia. Roma: Il Calamo: 171-187 [in Italian].
91. with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic in contact, now and then. In: Stefano Manfredi and Mauro
Tosco (eds.), Arabic in contact ("Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6"). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins: 1-17.
90. Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an "old" language family. In: Mauro Tosco (ed.), Afroasiatic:
Data and Perspectives ("Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339"). Amsterdam: John
Benjamins: 1-7.
89. From dialect to language and back: the case of Piedmontese. In: Reem Bassiouney (ed.),
Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects. London: Routledge:
86-98.
2017:
88. with Benjamin Saade. Maltese linguistics: what is new? In: Benjamin Saade and Mauro
Tosco (eds.), Advances in Maltese Linguistics ("Studia Typologica, 21"). Berlin: de Gruyter:
vii-ix.
87. On counting languages, diversity-wise. In: Ilaria Micheli (ed.), ATrA 3 - Cultural and
linguistic transition explored: proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop - Trieste, May 25-26,
2016. Trieste: EUT: 234-245.
86. with Graziella Acquaviva. "Doman am diran che j'erbo a coro..." (they do!). In: Graziella
Acquaviva and Mauro Tosco (eds.). Special Issue "Cultural Images of the Plant World:
Symbolic Aspects and Interpretative Perspectives/Immagini culturali del regno vegetale:
aspetti simbolici e prospettive interpretative." Kervan 20: 5-14.
2016:
85. Language diversity, development, and the state. In: Federico Gobbo (acd / red / ed).
Lingua, politica, cultura: Serta gratulatoria in honorem Renato Corsetti. New York, NY: Mondial
Books: 40-46.
84. with Graziano Savà. The Ongota language – and two ways of looking at the marginal and
hunting-gathering peoples of East Africa. Ethnorêma 11: 1-17. LINK
2015:
83. From Elmolo to Gura Pau: a remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its
possible revitalization. Studies in African Linguistics 44/2: 101-135.PDF
82. with Loredana Cupi and Antonio Romano. When implosives are biphasic: Implosivity in
Gawwada and beyond. In: Maria Grazia Busà and Sara Gesuato (eds.), Lingue e contesti.
Studi in onore di Alberto M. Mioni. Padova: CLEUP: 239-252.
81. with Amina Mettouchi and Graziano Savà. Cross-linguistic comparability and
language-specificity in CorpAfroAs. In: Amina Mettouchi, Dominique Caubet and Martine
Vanhove (eds.), Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: the CorpAfroAs
corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins:
221-255.
80. with Stefano Manfredi and Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle. Language Contact, Borrowing
and Codeswitching. In: Amina Mettouchi, Dominique Caubet and Martine Vanhove (eds.),
Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: the CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken
AfroAsiatic languages. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins: 283-308.
2014:
79. Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of them). In: Christel Stolz (ed.),
Language Empires in Comparative Perspective. Berlin: de Gruyter: 17-39.
78. Short notes on Somali previous scripts. In: Cabdirashiid M. Ismaaciil, Cabdalla C. Mansuur
and Saynab A. Sharci (eds.), Afmaal. Proceedings of the Conference on the 40th Anniversary
of Somali Orthography. Djibouti, 17th – 21st December 2012. Djibouti: AGA (The
Intergovernmental Academy of Somali Language): 2015: 189-217 (abridged version of
59.).PDF
77. The tension between language diversity and state building in Africa. Incontri Linguistici 37:
169-180.PDF
76. with Stefano Manfredi. Language uses vs. language policy: South Sudan and Juba Arabic
in the post-independence era. In: E. Dansero, F. De Filippi,E. Fantini and I. Marocco (eds.),
Proceedings of the III CUCS Congress, Turin 19-21 September 2013, JUNCO - Journal of
Universities and international development Cooperation 1,
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/junco/: 798-802.PDF
75. with Ilaria Micheli. A better knowledge for a better cooperation: the contribution of human
sciences for an intercultural cooperation to development. In: E. Dansero, F. De Filippi,E.
Fantini and I. Marocco (eds.),Proceedings of the III CUCS Congress, Turin 19-21 September
2013, JUNCO - Journal of Universities and international development Cooperation 1,
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/junco/: 768.
74. with Stefano Manfredi. Introduction. In: Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco (eds.),
“Arabic-based pidgins and creoles: descriptive, comparative and socio-historical issues”.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29/2: 207-210.
73. with Stefano Manfredi. The morphosyntax and prosody of topic and focus in Juba Arabic.
In: Stefano Manfredi and Mauro Tosco (eds.), “Arabic-based pidgins and creoles: descriptive,
comparative and socio-historical issues”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29/2:
319-351.
2013:
72. Le relief dans la tête : un système à repérage absolu de l'Ethiopie méridionale. Faits de
Langues 42 (Sémantique des relations spatiales): 153-166.
71. with Stefano Manfredi. Pidgins and Creoles. In: Jonathan Owens (ed.), The Oxford
Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. London: Oxford University Press: 495-519. PDF
70. with Loredana Cupi, Sara Petrollino and Graziano Savà. Preliminary notes on the Hamar
verb. In: Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Martine Vanhove (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe:
181-195.PDF
2012:
69. with Fabio Gasparini. Building a “new” Semitic language: lexical enrichment in Modern
Assyrian and its problems. Studia Andreae Zaborski Dedicata, Folia Orientalia 49:
191-202.PDF
68. What Terminal Speakers Can Do to Their Language: the Case of Elmolo. In: Federico
Corriente, Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Ángeles Vicente and Juan-Pablo Vita (eds.), Dialectology
of the Semitic Languages. Proceedings of the IV Meeting on Comparative Semitics, Zaragoza
6/9-11/2010 (“Aula Orientalis – Supplementa 27”). Sabadell (Barcelona): Editorial AUSA:
131-143.PDF
67. The grammar of space of Gawwada. In: Matthias Brenzinger and Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.),
Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009.
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe: 523-532.PDF
66. The Unity and Diversity of Somali Dialectal Variants. In: Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Jane A.
Ngala Oduor and Peter Iribemwangi (eds.), The Harmonization and Standardization of Kenyan
Languages. Orthography and other aspects. Cape Town: The Centre for Advanced Studies of
African Society (CASAS): 263-280. PDF
65. Swinging back the pendulum: French morphology and de-Italianization in Piedmontese. In:
Martine Vanhove, Thomas Stolz, Aina Urdze and Hitomi Otsuka (eds.), Morphologies in
contact. Berlin: Akademie: 247-262. PDF
2011:
64. The Nation-State and Language Diversity. In: Paolo Valore (ed.), Multilingualism.
Language, Power, and Knowledge. Pisa: Edistudio: 87-101.
63. On language, government, and the reduction of linguistic diversity. In: Luca Busetto,
Roberto Sottile, Livia Tonelli and Mauro Tosco (eds.), "He bitaney lagge". Studies on
Language and African Linguistics in honour of Marcello Lamberti. Milano: Qu.A.S.A.R.:
211-230 PDF
62. with Amina Mettouchi) Impersonal configurations and theticity: the case of meteorological
predications in Afroasiatic. In: Andrej Malchukov and Anna Siewierska (eds.), Impersonal
Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 307-322. PDF
61. Between endangerment and Ausbau. In: Emanuele Miola and Paolo Ramat (eds.),
Language Contact and Language Decay: Socio-political and linguistic perspectives. Pavia:
IUSS Press: 227-246 (maps: 284-285).PDF
2010:
60. Somali writings. In: Anja Kootz and Helma Pasch (eds.), 5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika.
Special issue of: Afrikanistik online. LINK
59. Why Contrast matters: information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic). In: Ines Fiedler
and Anne Schwarz (eds.), The Expression of Information Structure. A documentation of its
diversity across Africa. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 315-348. PDF
58. with Amina Mettouchi. Sur les traces de l’impersonnel en chamito-sémitique. In: Françoise
Daviet-Taylor and Didier Bottineau (eds.), L’impersonnel. Rennes: Presses Universitaire de
Rennes: 285-307.PDF
57. Semelfactive verbs, plurative nouns: on number in Gawwada (Cushitic). In: Frederick
Mario Fales and Giulia Francesca Grassi (eds.), CAMSEMUD 2007: Proceedings of the 13th
Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics. Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N.: 385-399. PDF
56. with Amina Mettouchi, Dominique Caubet, Martine Vanhove, Bernard Comrie and Shlomo
Izre’el. CORPAFROAS. A Corpus for Spoken Afroasiatic Languages: Morphosyntactic and
Prosodic Analysis. In: Frederick Mario Fales and Giulia Francesca Grassi (eds.), CAMSEMUD
2007: Proceedings of the 13th Italian Meeting of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics. Padova:
S.A.R.G.O.N.: 177-180. PDF
2009:
55. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. In: Martin Haspelmath and Uri
Tadmor (eds.), Loanwords in the World’s Languages. A Comparative Handbook. Berlin: De
Gruyter Mouton: 124-141.
2008:
54. A case of weak Romancisation: Italian in East Africa. In: Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker and
Rosa Salas Palomo (eds.), Aspects of language contact. New theoretical, methodological and
empirical findings with special focus on Romancisation processes. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton:
377-398. PDF
53. Introduction: Ausbau is everywhere! In: “Ausbau and Abstand Languages: Traditional and
New Approaches”. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 191: 1-16. PDF
52. with Graziano Savà. Ex Uno Plura: The uneasy road of the Ethiopian languages towards
standardization. In: “Ausbau and Abstand Languages: Traditional and New Approaches”.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 191: 111-139. PDF
51. What to do when you are unhappy with language areas but you do not want to quit.
Journal of Language Contact. THEMA 2: 112-123. PDF
50. Between subordination and coordination in Gawwada. In: Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin
Shay (eds.), Interaction of morphology and syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins: 207-226. PDF
2007:
49. with Graziano Savà. Ongota: back to reality? In: Tomáš Machalík and Jan Záhořík (eds.),
Viva Africa 2007. Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on African Studies. Ústí
nad Labem: Dryada: 71-80. PDF
48. Gawwada Morphology. In: Alan S. Kaye (ed.), Morphologies of Asia and Africa. Volume 1.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns: 2007: 505-528.
47. State and Movement in Gawwada. In: Marco Moriggi (ed.), XII Incontro Italiano di
Linguistica Camito-semitica (Afroasiatica). Soveria Mannelli (Cosenza): Rubbettino: 213-220.
46. Something Went Wrong: On the Historical reconstruction of the Dhaasanac Verb. In:
Rainer Voigt (ed.), “From Beyond the Mediterranean”. Akten des 7. internationalen
Semitohamitistenkongresses (VII. ISHaK), Berlin 13. bis 15. September 2004. Aachen:
Shaker: 265-280.
45. Feature-geometry and diachrony: The development of the subject clitics in Cushitic and
Romance. Diachronica 24/1: 119-153. PDF
44. Le maltais, ou de la crise d’une morphologie sémitique. In: Philippe Cassuto and Pierre
Larcher (eds.), La formation des mots dans les langues sémitiques. Aix-en-Provence:
Publications de l’Université de Provence: 151-163.
2006:
43. Towards a geometry of adpositional systems: A preliminary investigation of Gawwada. In:
Pier Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi and Mauro Tosco (eds.), Loquentes Linguis. Studi
linguistici e orientali in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti/ Linguistic and Oriental Studies in
Honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti/ Lingvistikaj kaj orientaj studoj honore al Fabrizio A.
Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: 695-702. PDF
42. with Graziano Savà. La mort des langues en domaine chamito-sémitique. Faits de
Langues 27: 279-290. PDF
41. The Ideophones in Gawwada. In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.), Proceedings of the XVth
International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25, 2003. Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz: 885-892. PDF
2005:
40. La naissance d’une catégorie morphologique : les clitiques sujet entre couchitique et
langues romanes. Faits de Langues 26: 201-213.
39. A Comparative View at the Subject Clitics in Cushitic. In: Alessandro Mengozzi (ed.), Studi
afroasiatici. Contributi presentati all'XI Incontro italiano di linguistica camito-semitica
(Bergamo, 5-7 giugno 2003). Milano: Franco Angeli: 167-175.
2004:
38. Between zero and nothing: transitivity and noun incorporation in Somali. Studies in
Language 28/1: 83-104.PDF
37. The Case for a Laissez-Faire Language Policy. Language and Communication 24/2:
165-181.PDF
2003:
36. Cushitic and Omotic Overview. In: M. Lionel Bender, David Appleyard, and Gábor Takács
(eds.), Afrasian: Selected Comparative/Historical Papers in Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff.
München: Lincom Europa: 87-92. PDF
35. with Graziano Savà. The classification of Ongota. In: M. Lionel Bender, David Appleyard,
and Gábor Takács (eds.), Afrasian: Selected Comparative/Historical Papers in Memory of Igor
M. Diakonoff. München: Lincom Europa: 307-316. PDF
2002:
34. “A Whole Lotta Focusin’ Goin’ On:” Information packaging in Somali texts. Studies in
African Linguistics 31/1-2: 27-53.
33. On Aspiration and Emphasis in Eastern Neo-Aramaic. In: Werner Arnold and Hartmut
Bobzin (eds.), “Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!”. Festschrift
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2011:
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Convergence Area. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe: 2007. Aethiopica 12: 287-292.
2007:
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funzionale). München: LINCOM Europa: 2003; 2. Luciano Canepari, Manuale di pronuncia
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Institut d’Études Créoles et Francophones, Université de Provence; Diffusion: Paris: Didier
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1986:
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2010:
1. In memoriam Alan S. Kaye (1944-2007). Aethiopica 13: 205-208. PDF
Non-academic books:
2006:
2. with Francesco Rubat-Borel and Vera Bertolino. Piemontèis lenga svicia - lìber ëd travaj për
ij giovo. Turin: Nòste Rèis: 2006 [144 p.; in Piedmontese].
1. with Francesco Rubat-Borel and Vera Bertolino. Il Piemontese in tasca. Chivasso: Assimil
Italia [x + 214 p.; in Italian].
