Orin D Gensler
Biographic Data
| ID | 843573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orin D Gensler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gensler |
| SIGNATURE | GENSLER O D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethiopian English
This chapter presents a detailed structural account of the salient points of “Ethiopian English” (EE): English as it is actually spoken and written in Ethiopia. As far as I know, it is the first description of this sort. Although highly distinctive, EE is undiscussed in studies of African Englishes. There have been articles on “English in Ethiopia”, but these are almost entirely sociolinguistic in nature (variations on the theme “the role of Engl…
Extreme Literal Mistranslation
The 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 Phonological Status of Downstep in Bakweri
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 50-67
Why Should a Demonstrative Turn Into a Preposition? The Evolution of Welsh Predicative yn
This article is devoted to the anatomy of an unnatural syntactic change. It presents the life history of the Welsh predicative particle yn —its diachronic genesis in Indo-European, its synchronic status, and (much more centrally) what happened along the way, and why what happened happened specifically in Welsh. Synchronically, I give syntactic, semantic, typological, and textual arguments—some rather new—that both predicative yn and verb-periphra…
Verbs With Two Object Suffixes
Although verbs in Semitic routinely take a single pronominal Object-suffix, only Arabic, Ethiopic, and Akkadian allow (rarely) two cooccurrent Obj-suf-fixes (he.gives-me-it). This paper examines the rare Semitic double Obj-suffix phenomenon in its larger Afroasiatic context, comparing it to the double Obj-clitic constructions found in Egyptian, Berber, and Hausa. Significant commonalities exist. In all these languages the ordering of morphemes is…
On Reconstructing the Syntagm S-Aux-O-V-Other to Proto-Niger-Congo
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994)
Hebrew in an Israeli Arab Hand
Non-syntactic antecedents and frame semantics
Non-syntactic antecedents and frame semantics
Hebrew in an Israeli Arab Hand
On Reconstructing the Syntagm S-Aux-O-V-Other to Proto-Niger-Congo
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994)
Verbs With Two Object Suffixes
Although verbs in Semitic routinely take a single pronominal Object-suffix, only Arabic, Ethiopic, and Akkadian allow (rarely) two cooccurrent Obj-suf-fixes (he.gives-me-it). This paper examines the rare Semitic double Obj-suffix phenomenon in its larger Afroasiatic context, comparing it to the double Obj-clitic constructions found in Egyptian, Berber, and Hausa. Significant commonalities exist. In all these languages the ordering of morphemes is…
Why Should a Demonstrative Turn Into a Preposition? The Evolution of Welsh Predicative yn
This article is devoted to the anatomy of an unnatural syntactic change. It presents the life history of the Welsh predicative particle yn —its diachronic genesis in Indo-European, its synchronic status, and (much more centrally) what happened along the way, and why what happened happened specifically in Welsh. Synchronically, I give syntactic, semantic, typological, and textual arguments—some rather new—that both predicative yn and verb-periphra…
The Phonological Status of Downstep in Bakweri
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 50-67
Extreme Literal Mistranslation
The 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. …
Ethiopian English
This chapter presents a detailed structural account of the salient points of “Ethiopian English” (EE): English as it is actually spoken and written in Ethiopia. As far as I know, it is the first description of this sort. Although highly distinctive, EE is undiscussed in studies of African Englishes. There have been articles on “English in Ethiopia”, but these are almost entirely sociolinguistic in nature (variations on the theme “the role of Engl…
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (4 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)