Graduate Program Coordinator (Linguistics), Department of Linguistics (since 10/2016)

• A., African Linguistics, Leipzig University (Germany), 1997

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ethiopian Languages and Literature(since 2015)

• Linguistic fieldwork, descriptive linguistics and typology
• Sociolinguistics with focus on language variation and change, language standardization and promotion, and language acquisition
• Ethiosemitic and Cushitic languages (particularly Amharic, Gurage, Oromo)
• Language, history and culture in Ethiopia, particularly in Gurage

Meyer, Ronny. 2016c. The Ethiopic script: linguistic features and socio-cultural connotations. In BinyamSisayMendisu and Janne Bondi Johannessen (eds.), Multilingual Ethiopia: Linguistic Challenges and Capacity Building Efforts. (Oslo Studies in Language 8.1), Oslo: University of Oslo, 137–172.

Meyer, Ronny (with FekedeMenuta). 2015. Sonorant alternations in Muher. In Lutz Edzard (ed.), Festschrift for Jan Retsö: Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 531–553.

Meyer, Ronny. 2014. Finiteness in Gurage. In Ronny Meyer, Yvonne Treis and AzebAmha (eds.), Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics: Complex Predicates, Finiteness and Interrogativity. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 225–258.

Meyer, Ronny. 2013. The Zay language [in Russian]. In M. S. Bulakh, L. E. Kogan and O. I. Romanova (eds.), Semitic Languages: Ethiosemitic Languages. (Languages of the World, Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Moscow: Nauka, 509–546.

Meyer, Ronny. 2012a. The use of Muher demonstratives for references in space and discourse. Afrika und Übersee 91. 161–202.

Meyer, Ronny. 2012b. Number in Muher: On the interaction between nominal and verbal morphology. Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 5,1. 1–41.

Meyer, Ronny. 2012c. The converb in Amharic. In DomenykEades (ed.), Grammaticalization in Semitic. (Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement 29), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 165–192.

Meyer, Ronny. 2011a. Review Article of Michael B. Ahland. 2010. Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-Comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language. Dallas, TX: SIL International and The University of Texas at Arlington. Aethiopica 14. 244–262.

Meyer, Ronny. 2011b. Amharic. In Stefan Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1178–1212.

Meyer, Ronny. 2011c. Gurage. In Stefan Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1220–1257.

Meyer, Ronny. 2011d. The role of Amharic as a national language and an African lingua franca. In Stefan Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1212–1220.

Meyer, Ronny (with Joachim Crass). 2011. Ethiopic-Cushitic language contact. In Stefan Weninger (ed.), The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science – HSK), Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 1266–1275.

Meyer, Ronny. 2010. Nominal number marking in Wolane. Aethiopica 13. 135–151.

Meyer, Ronny. 2009. The quotative verb in Ethiosemitic languages and in Oromo. In Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer (eds.), Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia. Köln: Köppe, 17–42.

Meyer, Ronny (with Joachim Crass). 2008. Ethiopia. In Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (eds.), A Linguistic Geography of Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 228–249.

Meyer, Ronny (with Girma A. Demeke). 2008. The enclitic -mm in Amharic: reassessment of a multifunctional morpheme. Linguistics 46,3. 607–628.

Meyer, Ronny. 2007a. Non-verbal predication in East Gurage and Gunnän Gurage languages. In Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer (eds.), Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area. Köln: Köppe, 177–194.

Meyer, Ronny. 2007b. Self-agentive motion verbs in Muher. APAL – Annual Publication in African Linguistics 5. 127–144.

Meyer, Ronny (with Girma A. Demeke). 2007. Topics and topicalization in Amharic. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28,1. 19–36.

Meyer, Ronny. 2006a. Sudan and the Horn of Africa. In Ulrich Ammon, Nobert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier and Peter Trudgill (eds.), Sociolinguistics – Soziolinguistik. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Ein internationalesHandbuchzurWissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft. (Volume III) Berlin: de Gruyter, 1951–1957.

Meyer, Ronny. 2006b. Cultural contact and language change in Eastern Gurage. In SiegbertUhlig (ed.), Proceedings of the 15 International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25, 2003. (ÄthiopistischeForschungen 65), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 813–821.

Meyer, Ronny. 2006c. LokaleVarietäten des Zay – Ein Survey. In Gerald Heusing (ed.), Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicheBeiträgezum 16. Afrikanistentag. Leipzig, 25. – 26. 9. 2003. Berlin: LIT, 147–169.

Meyer, Ronny (with DebelaGoshu). 2006. Conditional expressions in Oromo. APAL – Annual Publication in African Linguistics 4. 69–90.

Meyer, Ronny. 2005. Riddles as indicator of cultural and linguistic convergence in the Gurage region. Scrinium1. 174–196.

Meyer, Ronny (with Joachim Crass). 2005. Die Komplexitätsprachlicher und kulturellerKontakteanhand der NomenklaturzurEnsete-Pflanze. In Walter Bisang, Thomas Bierschenk, DetlefKreikenbom, and Ursula Verhoeven (eds.), Kulturelle und sprachlicheKontakte. Prozesse des Wandels in historischenSpannungsfeldernNordostafrikas/Westasiens. Aktenzum 2. Symposium des SFB 295 der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 15.–17. 10. 2001. (Kulturelle und sprachlicheKontakte 2), Würzburg: Ergon, 411–427.

Meyer, Ronny (with DebelaGoshu). 2005. Focus phenomena in Wellega Oromo. Afrika und Übersee 86 [2003]. 161–197.

Meyer, Ronny (with DebelaGoshu). 2004. A people who was blessed and cursed by God: The Waata around Lake Zway. In Catherine Griefenow-Mewis and TameneBitima (eds.), Oromo Oral Poetry Seen from Within. (Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischenSprachen), Köln: Köppe, 59–70.

Meyer, Ronny. 2002. Wäyläne, wäylähagäre! Oral tradition of the Wolane’s past. ChristianskijVostok 3 (New Series). 457–473.

Meyer, Ronny. 2001. Zay – Traditions of a Christian people in the heart of Ethiopia. ChristianskijVostok 2 (New Series). 317–328.

Meyer, Ronny (with Joachim Crass). 2001. The Qabena and the Wolane: Two peoples of the Gurage region and their respective history according to their own oral traditions. Annales d’Ethiopie17. 175–182.

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