Grover M. Hudson
Retired from the
Department of
Linguistics and Germanic,Slavic, Asian, and African Languages,
Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A.
e-mail hudson@msu.edu
Retired from the Department
of
Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages and African Studies Center of Michigan State University, I continue research and writing on
Ethiopian and Afroasiatic linguistics. My specializations are principles of
phonology,
Ethiopian
languages,
and language change. My interests have been (1) to discourage
the
inappropriate use of diachronic elements in synchronic grammar
(so-called
'abstract' underlying forms and ordered transformational rules, or
their equivalent:
ranked
constraints), (2) comparative Ethiopian-Eritrean Semitic grammar and
the evidence of this for the Ethiopian
origin of Semitic, (3) comparative Highland East Cushitic grammar, and,
recently, (4)
the
likely origin of and rapid growth of language in association with the
cultural
explosion
of the species from about 50,000 BP.
My book with Anbessa Teferra, Essentials of
Amharic,
is just published by Rüdiger
Köppe
(Cologne). This is the only book to bring together an introduction to
Amharic language history, society, and structure including
writing system, and English-Amharic and Amharic-English wordlists.
Amharic, the principal language of Ethiopia, is the most populous
Semitic language after Arabic.
I am married to Mutsuko Endo Hudson, also a
linguist at Michigan State University.
Here is a link to my recent review of James Hurford's The Origin of Meaning (2007).
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956): "As democracy is perfected, the office of
president represents, more
and more closely, the inner soul of the people... On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron." (1920)
Also linked here are:
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Mutsuko
Endo
Hudson and I at the
Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1998.
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