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Dr Yvonne Treis
Yvonne Treis is a La Trobe University Postdoctoral Fellow and joined the RCLT in April 2008. In her project she will write a grammatical description of Basketo (Baskeet), one of the little known Omotic languages spoken in South Ethiopia.
She retains interest in Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Southern Ethiopia. Her PhD dissertation (2007, University of Cologne) investigated in detail the phonology, nominal morphology and non-verbal predication of this language. She has published on various other aspects of the grammar of Kambaata.
Furthermore, she has done research on the avoidance language of Kambaata women, a nearly extinct register with which married women show respect towards their in-laws, and been interested in lexical semantics (particularly in the lexical fields of food consumption and preparation).
 
PhD dissertation / Book
2007. Towards a Grammar of Kambaata. Phonology, Nominal Morphology, and Non-verbal Predication. University of Cologne.
Published as:
Treis, Yvonne 2008a. A Grammar of Kambaata. Part 1: Phonology, Morphology, and Non-verbal Predication. [Kuschitische Sprachstudien, 26.] Köln: Köppe.
Edited volumes
Angelika Mietzner and Yvonne Treis (eds.) 2007 [2008]. Encoding motion: Case studies from Africa. In memory of Ursula Drolc. Special issue of Annual Publications in African Linguistics 5.
Articles
(Please email author for copy)
1998. Names of Khoisan languages and their variants. In: Schladt, Mathias (ed.). Language, identity, and conceptualization among the Khoisan. Cologne: Köppe. Pp. 463-503.
2000. NP coordination in Kxoe (Central Khoisan). Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 63: 63-92.
2005a. Avoiding Their Names – Avoiding Their Eyes. How Kambaata Women Respect Their In-laws. Anthropological Linguistics 47, 3: 292-320.
2005b. Kambaata Kinship Terminology. Annual Publication in African Linguistics 3: 27-48.
2006. Form and Function of Case Marking in Kambaata. Afrikanistik Online http://www.afrikanistik-online.de/archiv/2006/379/
2007a (with Joachim Crass). Kambaata Language. In: Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.). Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Vol. 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 334-5.
2007b. Cardinal Numerals in Kambaata. In: Machalík, Tomáš and Jan Záhořík (eds.). VIVA Africa 2007. Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on African Studies. Pilsen, 27-28 April. Pilsen: Dryada. Pp. 55-70.
2007c. Copulas in Kambaata. In: Crass, Joachim and Ronny Meyer (eds.). Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area. (Afrikanistische Forschungen, 15.) Cologne: Köppe. Pp. 71-97.
2007d [2008]. (with Angelika Mietzner). Introduction. In: Angelika Mietzner and Yvonne Treis (eds.). Encoding motion: Case studies from Africa. In memory of Ursula Drolc. Special issue of Annual Publications in African Linguistics 5: 11-18.
2007e [2008]. Motion events in Kambaata. In: Angelika Mietzner and Yvonne Treis (eds.). Encoding motion: Case studies from Africa. In memory of Ursula Drolc. Special issue of Annual Publications in African Linguistics 5: 197-226.
2008b. Relativization in Kambaata from a typological point of view. In: Frajzyngier, Zygmunt and Erin Shay (eds.). Interaction of morphology and syntax: Case studies in Afroasiatic. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins. Pp. 161-206.
2008c. Die Äthiopische Schrift. In: Kootz, Anja und Helma Pasch (Hrsg.). 5000 Jahre Schrift in Afrika. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek. Pp. 48-57.
2008d. Kambaatissata: Yanna, Maauta, Heessa [The Kambaata Language: Proverbs, Tales and Legends]. Ms. Research Centre of Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University.
forthcoming c. T’imbaaro. In: Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.). Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Vol. 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
forthcoming d. Polysemous Agent Nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic). In: Luschützky, Hans-Christian and Franz Rainer (eds.). Polysemy of Agent Nouns. Special Issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung.
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