(reverse chronological order)
In preparation:
– with Bonny Sands. Early East African and Cushitic: Contacts between foragers and
pastoralists in early East Africa. Article.
– Few but enough: On the semantics of the Somali adpositions. In: Klaus Geus, Shabo Talay
and Zeus Wellnhofer (eds.), Aethiopica et Aethiosemitica. Festschrift für Rainer Voigt zu
seinem 80. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2024.
– (with Marco Tamburelli). Special issue on "Contested Languages." Journal of Multilingual
and Multicultural Development.
Forthcoming:
– Language in the constitutions of Africa: A linguist's critical overview. In: Evgeniya Gutova and
Alireza Korangy (eds.), Multilingualism, identity and language endangerment in Africa.
New York, NY: Springer.
– Non-verbal predication in Cushitic. In: Pier Marco Bertinetto, Denis Creissels and Luca
Ciucci (eds.), Non-verbal Predication: A Typological Survey. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Authored books:
10. 2023. 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.]
9. 2022 [published June 2023]. A Gawwada Dictionary (Cushitic and Omotic Studies, 9).
Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [203 p.]
8. 2021 [published February 2023]. A Grammar of Gawwada (Cushitic and Omotic Studies,
8). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [396 p.]
7. 2016 with Graziano Savà. An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli's Dizi Grammar
(Cushitic and Omotic Studies, 5). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
6. 2001 The Dhaasanac Language (Kuschitische Sprachstudien, 17). Köln: Rüdiger
Köppe [xiv+598 p.].
5. 2001 with Alan S. Kaye. Pidgin and Creole Languages: A Basic Introduction.
München: Lincom Europa [114 p.].
4. 1997 Af Tunni. Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary of a Southern Somali Dialect
(Kuschitische Sprachstudien, 12). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe [x + 304 p.].
3. 1991 A Grammatical Sketch of Dahalo, including texts and a glossary (Kuschitische
Sprachstudien, 8). Hamburg: Helmut Buske [xv + 179 p.].PDF
2. 1991 with Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Testi neo-aramaici dell’Unione Sovietica raccolti
da E. Cerulli. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale [159 p.; in Italian].
1. 1989 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:
11. 2023 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
10. 2021 with Marco Tamburelli. Contested Languages: The Hidden Multilingualism of
Europe (Studies in World Language Problems, 8). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
9. 2018 with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic in contact (Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 6).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
8. 2018 Afroasiatic: Data and Perspectives (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 339).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
7. 2017 with Benjamin Saade. Advances in Maltese Linguistics (Studia Typologica, 21).
Berlin: de Gruyter.
6 2014 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.
5. 2013 with Alessandro Mengozzi. Sounds and Words through the Ages: Afroasiatic
from Turin. Alessandria: dell’Orso.
4. 2011 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..
3. 2006 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.].
2. 1997 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.].
1. 1993 with Riccardo Contini and Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Serta Semitica et
Philologica Constantino G. Tsereteli Dicata. Torino: Silvio Zamorani [xxv + 342
p.].
Edited Journal Issues:
3. 2016 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.
2. 2014 with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic-based pidgins and creoles: descriptive,
comparative and socio-historical issues. Journal of Pidgin and Creole
Languages 29/2.
1. 2008 Ausbau and Abstand Languages: Traditional and New Approaches. International
Journal of the Sociology of Language 191.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
112. 2023. 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. 2023 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. 2023 Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. In: Ursula Reutner (ed.), Manual of Romance
Languages in Africa ("Manuals of Romance Linguistics"). Berlin: de Gruyter:
783-807.
109. 2023 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. 2023 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. 2023 Gawwada. In: Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira and Zelealem Leyew(eds.), The
Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press:
165-197.
106. 2022 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.
105. 2021 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. 202 Measuring languageness: fact-checking and debunking a few common myths.
DIVE-IN. An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion 1: 43-51.
103. 2021 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. 2021 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. 2021 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. 2021 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. 2021 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.
98 2020 East Cushitic. In: Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of African Languages. London: Oxford University Press: 290-299.
97. 2020 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. 2020 The Busta dell'Ascari: war propaganda in Oromo in Latin script from 1940.
Kervan 24/1: 39-63.
95. 2019 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.
94. 2018 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. 2018 Talking the illness: Swahili for medical aid and cooperation in Turin. Kervan 22:
169-194.
92. 2018 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. 2018 with Stefano Manfredi. Arabic in contact, now and then. In: Stefano Manfredi and
Mauro Tosco (eds.), Arabic in contact ("Studies in Arabic Linguistics").
Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 1-17.
90 2018 Afroasiatic: Fresh insights from an "old" language family. In: Mauro Tosco (ed.),
Afroasiatic: Data and Perspectives ("Current Issues in Linguistic Theory").
Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 1-7.
89. 2018 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.
88. 2017 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. 2017 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. 2017 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.
85. 2016 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. 2015 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
83. 2015 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. 2015 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. 2015 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: John Benjamins: 221-255.
80. 2015 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: John Benjamins: 283-308.
79. 2014 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. 205 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. 2014 The tension between language diversity and state building in Africa. Incontri
Linguistici 37: 169-180.PDF
76. 2014 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. 2014 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. 2014 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. 2014 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.
72. 2013 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. 2013 with Stefano Manfredi. Pidgins and Creoles. In: Jonathan Owens (ed.), The
Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. London: Oxford University Press: 495-
519. PDF
70. 2013 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
69. 2012 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. 2012 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. 2012 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. 2012 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. 2012 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
64. 2011 The Nation-State and Language Diversity. In: Paolo Valore (ed.), Multilingualism.
Language, Power, and Knowledge. Pisa: Edistudio: 87-101.
63. 2011 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. 2011 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. 2011 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
60. 2010 Somali writings. In: Anja Kootz and Helma Pasch (eds.), 5000 Jahre Schrift in
Afrika. Special issue of: Afrikanistik online. LINK
59. 2010 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. 2010 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. 2010 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. 2010 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
55. 2009 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.
54. 2008 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. 2008 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. 2008 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. 2008 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. 2008 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
49. 2007 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. 2007 Gawwada Morphology. In: Alan S. Kaye (ed.), Morphologies of Asia and Africa.
Volume 1. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns: 2007: 505-528.
47. 2007 State and Movement in Gawwada. In: Marco Moriggi (ed.), XII Incontro Italiano
di Linguistica Camito-semitica (Afroasiatica). Soveria Mannelli (Cosenza):
Rubbettino: 213-220.
46. 2007 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. 2007 Feature-geometry and diachrony: The development of the subject clitics in
Cushitic and Romance. Diachronica 24/1: 119-153. PDF
44. 2007 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.
43. 2006 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. 2006 with Graziano Savà. La mort des langues en domaine chamito-sémitique. Faits
de Langues 27: 279-290. PDF
41. 2006 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
40. 2005 La naissance d’une catégorie morphologique : les clitiques sujet entre
couchitique et langues romanes. Faits de Langues 26: 201-213.
39. 2005 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.
38. 2004 Between zero and nothing: transitivity and noun incorporation in Somali. Studies
in Language 28/1: 83-104.PDF
37. 2004 The Case for a Laissez-Faire Language Policy. Language and Communication
24/2: 165-181.PDF
36. 2003 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. 2003 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
34. 2002 “A Whole Lotta Focusin’ Goin’ On:” Information packaging in Somali texts.
Studies in African Linguistics 31/1-2: 27-53.
33. 2002 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 Otto Jastrow. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz: 737-754.
32. 2002 When Clitics Collide: On ‘to have’ in Piedmontese. Diachronica 19/2: 367-400.
PDF
31. 2001 The short past in Dhaasanac. In: Andrzej Zaborski (ed.), New Data and New
Methods in Afroasiatic Linguistics: Robert Hetzron in memoriam. Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz: 195-204.
30. 2001 with Graziano Savà. “A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of Southwest
Ethiopia”. Studies in African Linguistics 29 [published 2001]/ 2: 59-135. PDF
29. 2000 Cushitic Overview. Journal of Ethiopian Studies 33/2: 87-121.
28. 2000 Is There an “Ethiopian Language Area”? Anthropological Linguistics 42/3:
329-365.
27. 1999 The Color Terms of Dhaasanac. In: Marcello Lamberti and Livia Tonelli (eds.),
Afroasiatica Tergestina. Papers from the 9th Italian Meeting of Afroasiatic
(Hamito–Semitic) Linguistics. Padova: Unipress: 381-392.
26. 1999 Preliminary notes on focus and topic in Dhaasanac (East Cushitic, South–West
Ethiopia). Sprawozdania z Posiedze Komisji Naukowych, Polska Akademia
Nauk, Oddzial w Krakowie 41/2: 87-93.
25. 1998 with Cabdulqaadir Salaad Dhoorre. 111 Somali Ideophones. Journal of African
Cultural Studies 11/2: 125-156.
24. 1998 A parsing view on inconsistent word-order: Articles in Tigre and its relatives.
Linguistic Typology 2/3: 355-380.
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Miscellanea:
1. 2010 In memoriam Alan S. Kaye (1944-2007). Aethiopica 13: 205-208. PDF
Non-academic books:
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ëd travaj për ij giovo. Turin: Nòste Rèis: 2006 [144 p.; in Piedmontese].
1. 2006 with Francesco Rubat-Borel and Vera Bertolino. Il Piemontese in tasca.
Chivasso: Assimil Italia [x + 214 p.; in Italian].
