Sara Petrollino
Biographic Data
| ID | 358976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Petrollino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrollino |
| SIGNATURE | PETROLLINO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7037-5762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bridging constructions in Hamar discourse
This paper deals with bridging constructions in Hamar, a South Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia. Bridging constructions are stylistic devices and discourse linkage strategies consisting of sequences of two clauses which mark the end and the beginning of a discourse unit. Commonly known under the label ‘tail-head linkage’, bridging constructions are usually reported for polysynthetic languages of Papua New Guinea and Amazonian language…
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices
Herding games" are mimicry games played by children in several East African pastoralist societies. This article presents an ethnographic account of the herding game among the Hamar agro-pastoralist people of Southwest Ethiopia, and reveals the dynamics by which children learn pastoral ecological knowledge from each other and socialise one another into pastoralist linguacultural practices. During the herding game, male children of various ages lea…
Hamar
This chapter presents an overview of the main grammatical features of Hamar, a South Omotic language spoken in South West Ethiopia and referred to in the literature as the Hamer-Banna cluster. The Hamar (morpho)phonological features discussed in the chapter include the prosodic system, which shows features of both tone and stress, vowel harmony, which produces mid-low vowels in nouns, sibilant harmony and metathesis. Aspects of nominal and verbal…
The Hamar cattle model
The rich anthropological and ethnographic literature on cattle “color” and “pattern” terms has argued for the central role of the cattle model in the visual systems of pastoral cultures. This study provides further evidence to the idea of a cattle model structuring pastoralists’ visual systems, and it explores the indigenous visual meanings of cattle “color” and “pattern” terms in Hamar, a language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia. The results show t…
Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania
Aasá, a Cushitic language, was formerly spoken by a hunter-gatherer community that constitutes a servant group to the Maasai in northern Tanzania. Given that none of the ethnic Aasá surveyed in this study had ever spoken this language, their memory of it is remarkable and raises questions about how it is remembered. In this article, we consider what our corpus of collected data reveals about the patterns of recollection of Aasá and compare these …
The Hamar cattle model
The rich anthropological and ethnographic literature on cattle “color” and “pattern” terms has argued for the central role of the cattle model in the visual systems of pastoral cultures. This study provides further evidence to the idea of a cattle model structuring pastoralists’ visual systems, and it explores the indigenous visual meanings of cattle “color” and “pattern” terms in Hamar, a language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia. The results show t…
Recollecting Words and Expressions in Aasá, a Dead Language in Tanzania
Aasá, a Cushitic language, was formerly spoken by a hunter-gatherer community that constitutes a servant group to the Maasai in northern Tanzania. Given that none of the ethnic Aasá surveyed in this study had ever spoken this language, their memory of it is remarkable and raises questions about how it is remembered. In this article, we consider what our corpus of collected data reveals about the patterns of recollection of Aasá and compare these …
The Hamar cattle model
The rich anthropological and ethnographic literature on cattle “color” and “pattern” terms has argued for the central role of the cattle model in the visual systems of pastoral cultures. This study provides further evidence to the idea of a cattle model structuring pastoralists’ visual systems, and it explores the indigenous visual meanings of cattle “color” and “pattern” terms in Hamar, a language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia. The results show t…
Hamar
This chapter presents an overview of the main grammatical features of Hamar, a South Omotic language spoken in South West Ethiopia and referred to in the literature as the Hamer-Banna cluster. The Hamar (morpho)phonological features discussed in the chapter include the prosodic system, which shows features of both tone and stress, vowel harmony, which produces mid-low vowels in nouns, sibilant harmony and metathesis. Aspects of nominal and verbal…
Bridging constructions in Hamar discourse
This paper deals with bridging constructions in Hamar, a South Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia. Bridging constructions are stylistic devices and discourse linkage strategies consisting of sequences of two clauses which mark the end and the beginning of a discourse unit. Commonly known under the label ‘tail-head linkage’, bridging constructions are usually reported for polysynthetic languages of Papua New Guinea and Amazonian language…
Herding Games and Socialisation into Pastoral Linguacultural Practices
Herding games" are mimicry games played by children in several East African pastoralist societies. This article presents an ethnographic account of the herding game among the Hamar agro-pastoralist people of Southwest Ethiopia, and reveals the dynamics by which children learn pastoral ecological knowledge from each other and socialise one another into pastoralist linguacultural practices. During the herding game, male children of various ages lea…
Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Livestock (2 works)