Linguistic phenomena from the Aksumite Collection (CAe 1047)

Alessandro Bausi

doi:10.13135/1825-263X/8239

Alessandro Bausi Hamburg University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/8239

Abstract

The long series of fruitful workshops and conferences on Afro-Asiatic linguistics, vividly evoked by Fabrizio Angelo Pennacchietti in a recent contribution, was also the occasion for me to deliver a paper (‘Ancient Features of Ancient Ethiopic’, 2005) that was a minor version of a longer contribution published in the journal Aethiopica (2005), but condensed in its essential elements for the proceedings of the Ragusa–Ibla conference. This paper substantially updates those attempts and provide an assessment of the fertility of that research direction.

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Author Biography

Alessandro Bausi, Hamburg University

Alessandro Bausi, Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Universität Hamburg, is a philologist and linguist working on ancient, late antique, and medieval texts and manuscripts. Journal and series editor, he heads several projects in Ethiopian-Eritrean philology, manuscript studies, linguistics, and corpus linguistics at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. He has especially contributed on the earliest phase of ancient Ethiopic scribal and literary history, on epigraphy, on canonical and hagiographical-liturgical collections, and generally on the textual criticism of Ethiopic texts and on the manuscript culture of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Alessandro can be contacted at: alessandro.bausi@gmail.com