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Amharic Cultural Reader
by Leslau, Wolf; Thomas L. Kane (Editors)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 3447044969
- ISBN 13
- 9783447044967
- Seller
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About This Item
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Near fine. Quarto. ix,(1),319,(3)pp. Including 2 pages publisher's ads. Original color pictorial wraps. First edition of this fascinating work containing texts elucidating various aspects and customs of Ethiopian life. Text in English and Amharic on facing pages. Near fine. From the collection of Wolf Leslau. Wolf Leslau was undoubtedly the greatest Semiticist linguist of the past century, many would even say of all time. He was born in Czestochowa, Poland, on November 14, 1906, and died in Fullerton, California, on November 18, 2006. The centenarian was working almost up to his final day on a descriptive grammar of the Ethio-Semitic language Gogot. As with so much of his work, his grammars were based on material he had collected doing fieldwork, in this particular case many decades before. He published more than fifty volumes and more than two hundred articles in a variety of international journals over a long and distinguished career of seventy-plus years, and he is known as a most prodigious contributor to Ethiopian linguistics (including three enormous projects of particular importance, Leslau 1979, 1987, 1995) as well as an important contributor to Semitic comparative and historical lexicography, and folklore and oral literature. His publications (written chiefly in English, but also in French, Yiddish, and Hebrew) ranged across descriptive grammar, comparative grammar, lexicography, grammatical/phonological and lexical reconstruction, etymology, language classification, borrowing, anthropological and cultural linguistic topics (e.g. folk tales, argots, riddles, songs, proverbs, taboos), translation, bibliography, reviews, and even recordings of Ethiopian traditional music.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49941
- Title
- Amharic Cultural Reader
- Author
- Leslau, Wolf; Thomas L. Kane (Editors)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 3447044969
- ISBN 13
- 9783447044967
- Publisher
- Harrassowitz Verlag
- Place of Publication
- Wiesbaden
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Ethiopian language, Amharic, Ethiopian culture, Ethiopian customs, First edition, Reference
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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