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Authored Books

Appleyard, David (1995) Colloquial Amharic. A Complete Language Course. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Appleyard, David and Orwin, Martin (2008) 'The Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia.' In: Simpson, Andrew, (ed.), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 267-290.

Appleyard, David (2005) 'Amharic [and] Cushitic Languages [and] Djibouti - Language Situation [and] Eritrea - language Situation [and] Oromo [and] Tigrinya [and] Edward Ullendorff (b 1920).' In: Brown, Keith, (ed.), Encyclopedia of language and Linguistics (2nd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Appleyard, David (2005) 'Definite Markers in Modern Ethiopian Semitic Langauges.' In: Khan, Geoffrey, (ed.), Semitic Studies in Honour of Edward Ullendorff. Leiden: Brill, pp. 51-61.

Appleyard, David (2005) 'Hamtanga.' In: Uhlig, Siegbert, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 996-7.

Appleyard, David (2004) 'Beja as a Cushitic language.' In: Takács, Gábor, (ed.), Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies in Memoriam Werner Vycichl. Leiden: Brill, pp. 175-194. (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 39)

Appleyard, David (2004) 'Ethiopian Studies in the United Kingdom in the 20th Century.' In: Voigt, Rainer, (ed.), Die äthiopischen Studien im 20. Jahrhundert/Ethiopian Studies in the 20th Century. Aachen: Shaker Verlag (Germany), pp. 13-30.

Appleyard, David (2004) 'Some thoughts on the origin of the Amharic 'object marker' -õ -[´]n.' In: Böll, V, Nosnitsin, D, Rave, T, Smidt, W and Sokolinskaia, E, (eds.), Studia Aethiopica. In Honour of Siegbert Uhlig on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 291-301.

Appleyard, David (2003) 'Abraham, Roy Clive [and] Agäw Languages [and] Amharic. History and dialectology of Amharic and grammatical sketch of Amharic [and] Awngi [and] Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis.' In: Uhlig, Siegbert, (ed.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 44-45, 139.

Appleyard, David (2003) 'Berber Overview [and] Semitic Overview.' In: Bender, M, Appleyard, David and Takács, Gábor, (eds.), Selected comparative historical Afrasian linguistic studies: in memory of Igor M. Diakonoff. Germany: Lincom, pp. 23-26.

Appleyard, David (2001) 'The verb "to say" as a verb "recycling device" in Ethiopian languages.' In: Zaborski, Andrzej, (ed.), New Data and New Methods in Afroasiatic Linguistics. Robert Hetzron in memoriam. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 1-11.

Appleyard, David (1998) 'Language Death - the Case of Qwarenya (Ethiopia).' In: Brenzinger, Matthias, (ed.), Endangered Languages in Africa. Köln: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, pp. 143-161.

Appleyard, David (1996) 'Kailina - a new Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology.' In: Hayward, R. J. and Lewis, I. M., (eds.), Voice and power : the culture of language in North-East Africa ; essays in honour of B.W. Andrzejewski. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 1-19. (African languages and cultures, Supplement 3)

Journal Article

Appleyard, David (2004) 'The morphology of main and subordinate verb marking with special reference to Ethiopian Semitic and Agaw.' Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere = AAP, 7. pp. 9-31.

Appleyard, David (2003) 'An Old Amharic commentary on the Nicene Creed.' Aethiopica, 6. pp. 111-136.

Appleyard, David (2002) 'New finds in the 20th century: the South Semitic languages.' Israel Oriental Studies: Semitic Linguistics: the State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, 20. pp. 401-430.

Appleyard, David (1996) 'Ethiopian Semitic and South Arabian: towards a re-examination of a relationship.' Israel Oriental Studies (Studies in Modern Semitic Languages), 16. pp. 203-228.