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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 Kwama, one of the little known Koman languages spoken at the border between Ethiopia and Sudan.
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
2007. Towards a Grammar of Kambaata. Phonology, Nominal Morphology, and Non-verbal Predication. University of Cologne.
Publications
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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.
2008. 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.
forthcoming a. Motion events in Kambaata. In: Angelika Mietzner and Yvonne Treis (eds.). Encoding motion: Case studies from Africa. Special issue of Annual Publications in African Linguistics 5.
forthcoming b. T'imbaaro. In: Uhlig, Siegbert (ed.). Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Vol. 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
forthcoming c. 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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