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Reliance on Predicative Units as a Method of Analysing and Translating Amharic Written Texts
Get PDFIn analysing and translating Amharic texts, most foreign students have experienced major problems while trying to ‘redirect’ the rigidly leftbranching syntax of Amharic into the predominantly right-branching syntax of most European languages. The way out of this difficulty proposed by some teachers of Amharic consists in the so-called ‘translating from the end’ principle: the student begins to decipher the structure of an Amharic sentence from the finite verb form at its very end and gradually proceeds towards the beginning of the sentence, untangling—one by one—the syntactic structures involved. In the course of teaching Amharic, I have found this method largely inadequate for the purpose it is supposed to achieve. As an alternative to the ‘translating from the end’ method the author proposes another strategy which could be termed ‘reliance on predicative units’. In using this strategy, the student should, first of all, single out verb forms which are likely to perform the function of (final or dependent) predicates. The second step consists in delimiting groups, or units, headed by every such verb form. The third step is to provide a rough, working translation of every such unit without taking into consideration its relations to the other units in the sentence. The fourth, and final, step consists in joining the translations of the predicative units together; at this stage, detailed knowledge of Amharic morphosyntactic rules is very much required
Extreme Literal Mistranslation: The Gǝʿǝz Text of Titus 3:1
Get PDFThe Gǝʿǝz translation of Titus 3:1, by following the Greek original literally—word-for-word and even case-for-case—yields a good, clear Gǝʿǝz text which the average Gǝʿǝz reader will take as having a meaning which is opposite to that of the Greek: not (1) ‘Remind them to be obedient to rulers’, as in the Greek (the normal Pauline message), but (2) ‘Remind the rulers to be obedient’. This paper reconstructs how this semantic inversion came about. The Gǝʿǝz word-sequence is syntactically ambiguous, allowing two different parses: one normal (2) and the other highly marked (1). The intended, marked parse (1), which would yield the Greek sense, is unlikely even to occur to the Gǝʿǝz reader. Indeed, the andǝmta to this passage presupposes the unmarked parse (2)
Hatem Elliesie, Völkerrechtliche Beziehungen zwischen Äthiopien und Italien im Lichte des Vertrags von Uccialli/Wuchale (1889)
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Nafisa Valieva, The ‘Gadla Lālibalā collection of textual units’: tradition and documentation
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Proceedings of the የአማርኛ ቋንቋ ትምህርት አሰጣጥ በጀርመን አገር—ዓውደጥናት/Workshop: Amharisch Unterrichten in Deutschland/Workshop on the Teaching of Amharic in Germany 1–2 February 2018, Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik, Asien-Afrika-Institut,Hamburg
Get PDFConference Report: Proceedings of the የአማርኛ ቋንቋ ትምህርት አሰጣጥ በጀርመን አገር—ዓውደጥናት/Workshop: Amharisch Unterrichten in Deutschland/Workshop on the Teaching of Amharic in Germany 1–2 February 2018, Hiob-Ludolf-Zentrum für Äthiopistik, Asien-Afrika-Institut,Hambur
Some Brief Remarks on Teaching Amharic: A Personal View
Get PDFThis article offers a brief comparative view of the teaching of Amharic in the last decades at two major European universities: the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” and the Universität Hamburg. The aim of this brief history is to highlight the severe consequences on the teaching of Amharic enforced by measures set in motion by the Bologna Process since 1999. This changed framework requires adequate strategies and counter-measures in order to safeguard the quality of education and the continuity of our research traditions
100 Jahre Amharisch-Unterricht in Hamburg
Get PDFThe article offers a spirited account of the 100-year-old history of teaching Amharic at the Universität Hamburg. It presents significant turning points in the fortunes of Amharic as a foreign language first taught in the Kolonialinstitut and then at the university, and portrays the people who shaped them, in particular the lectors of Amharic from Ethiopia. The account draws on archival documents interwoven with personal memories
Chet Van Duzer, Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence
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Ityoṗyawinnät and Addis Abäba’s Popular Music Scene
No full textThe production, consumption, and distribution of contemporary Ethiopian music has thus far remained largely unexplored, although it is an important part of the urban Ethiopian public sphere. This study explores themes dominant in the music scene of Ethiopia in 2016, in which musicians explore ideas central to Ethiopian socio-political and economic life. The subversive nature of Ethiopian music, its presentation of characteristic topics of urban life, its aesthetic power, and the prominence it gives to important themes such as citizenship, nationalism, and identity are all investigated in this article. The study examines the influence music has had on bringing Ethiopians together in the face of a divisive political landscape, and as ultimately having played a critical role in the political changes the country witnessed in 2018