Grammatical Changes In Semitic A Diachronic Grammar Of Amharic Girma A Demeke by Girma A. Demeke instant download after payment.

In Girma (2009), I addressed the controversial issue regarding the origin
and history of Amharic. In that book I not only challenged the idea that
Amharic originated as a pidgin but also its underlying assumption that
the present Semitic languages of Ethiopia originated from either
Sabaean or a group of related South Arabian speech varieties brought to
Ethiopia by immigrants. Sabaean speakers from South Arabia, the
current Yemen, are thought to have migrated to Ethiopia some time in
the middle of the first millennium BCE. It is widely entertained that
through a pidgin-induced process Amharic lost the typical Semitic
phonetic features – the gutturals (Baye 2000 EC); the syntax of Amharic
became untypical for a Semitic language (Bender 1983, Baye 2000 EC);
and its morphology acquired properties of Cushitic languages (Baye
2000 EC). In Girma (2009), I argued that Amharic does not show any
characteristic of a pidgin-induced past. Amharic without a doubt is a
direct descendant of Semitic. It is as what Isenberg stated about two
centuries ago: “Its [i.e. Amharic’s] Semitic origin cannot be questioned:
it is evident in every feature” (Isenberg 1842:iv). In Girma (2009), I also
indicated that most of the current non-Semitic features that Amharic
exhibits are recent innovation due to both internal changes and other
languages’ influence.