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Robert Hetzron, born Herzog (31 December 1937 – 1997), was a Hungarian linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage
Gurage

Gurage is an ethnic group in Ethiopia. According to the 2007 national census, they number 1,867,377 people , of whom 792,659 are urban dwellers....
 Ethiopian Semitic languages
Ethiopian Semitic languages

Ethiopian Semitic is a language group, which together with Old South Arabian, forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages. Today, the name Ethiopian can be considered a misnomer, as the North languages are also found in Eritrea, with two of them being exclusively used there; however, the term came into use before Eritrea had...
. 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.








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Robert Hetzron, born Herzog (31 December 1937 – 1997), was a Hungarian linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage
Gurage

Gurage is an ethnic group in Ethiopia. According to the 2007 national census, they number 1,867,377 people , of whom 792,659 are urban dwellers....
 Ethiopian Semitic languages
Ethiopian Semitic languages

Ethiopian Semitic is a language group, which together with Old South Arabian, forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages. Today, the name Ethiopian can be considered a misnomer, as the North languages are also found in Eritrea, with two of them being exclusively used there; however, the term came into use before Eritrea had...
. 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.

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.


External links

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