Robert Hetzron

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Robert Hetzron, born Herzog (31 December 19371997), was a Hungarian linguist who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage Ethiopian Semitic languages. The 35th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35, San Antonio, 2007), which was initiated by Robert Hetzron at Santa Barbara in 1972, is dedicated to his memory.

[edit] Publications

  • 1969: The Verbal System of Southern Agaw. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Ph.D.-thesis)
  • 1972: Ethiopian Semitic: studies in classification. Manchester. ISBN 0-7190-1123-X
  • 1977: The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
  • 1996: "The two futures in Central and Peripheral Western Gurage", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage language and culture : dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 101-109.
  • 1997: (ed.) The Semitic languages. Routledge: London. ISBN 0-415-05767-1.
  • 2000: (with Berhanu Chamora), Inor. Münich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-977-5.

[edit] References

  • Gideon Goldenberg, "In memoriam Robert Hetzron", in: Aethiopica 2 (1999), pp. 198-200.
  • Andrzej Zaborski (ed.), New data and new methods in Afroasiatic linguistics: Robert Hetzron in memoriam. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2001.
  • Andrzej Zaborski, "Robert Hetzron (1938-1997) : bibliography", in: New data and new methods ... (see above), pp. xi-xix.

[edit] External links

  • NACAL - The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
  • An obituary by Grover Hudson.