Prøveforelesning - Master Desalegn Workneh

Master Desalegn Workneh holder prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne for PhD.- graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap, fagområde lingvistikk

“The interaction between viewpoint aspect and tense in Amharic morphosyntax”

Publikum kan følge prøveforelesningen digitalt ved å følge denne lenken:

https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/751274886825446d8edf037ef53d4c3921

Disputasen holdes kl. 09.00 fredag 4. september, hvor de vil være offentlig forsvar av avhandlingen:

"The voice system of Amharic"

Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:

Languages have voice systems--often known as active and passive voices. This dissertation is a study of the voice system Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. I present how the voice morphemes in Amharic behave. I have argued that Amharic has no grammatical forms for the passive, middle, unaccusative and the like voice forms which are popular in many European languages. The language has only two voice forms, pretty much similar to the ancient Greek, such as the active and the nonactive. The active voice itself appears in different forms--including the unmarked active voice, as well as marked causative forms. The nonactive comes marked with a single morpheme.

Bedømmelseskomité:

dr. Mengistu Amberber, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, The university of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (førsteopponent)

dr. Michelle Sheehan, Reader in Linguistics, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England (andre opponent)

professor Gillian Ramchand, UiT Noges arktiske universitet i Tromsø

Disputasleder:

instituttleder Gustav J. Pedersen, institutt for språk og kultur, UiT Norges arktiske universitet i Tromsø

Både prøveforelesning og disputas avholdes heldigitalt.