Dr Yvonne Treis

Telephone: +61 3 9479 6421 Email : y.treis@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9467 3053

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).

For updated and detailed listing of publications, please see Yvonne's Academia homepage.

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