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† Prof. em. Dr. Karen H. Ebert (1945-2016) studied General Linguistics
and Germanic languages at the Universities of Kiel and Copenhagen.
She obtained her PhD in 1970 from Kiel University.
Interview with Karen H. Ebert (September 2011, in German)
1971 | Referenz, Sprechsituation und die bestimmten Artikel in einem nordfriesischen Dialekt. Bredstedt: Nordfriisk Instituut. (=Studien und Materialien Nr. 4). |
1975 | Sprache und Tradition der Kera (Tschad), Teil I: Texte. Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde (MSAA), Serie A, Bd. 6. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. |
1976 | Sprache und Tradition der Kera (Tschad), Teil II: Lexikon/Lexique. MSAA, Serie A, Bd. 8. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. |
1979 | Sprache und Tradition der Kera (Tschad), Teil III: Grammatik. MSAA, Serie A, Bd.15. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer. |
1994 | The Structure of Kiranti Languages - Comparative Grammar and Texts. Zürich: ASAS. |
1996 | Koɖava. München: Lincom. (= Languages of the World Materials 104). |
1997a | A Grammar of Athpare. München: Lincom. (= Studies in Asian Linguistics 1) |
1997b | Camling. München: Lincom. (= Languages of the World Materials 103) |
2000 | Camling Texts and Glossary. München: Lincom. |
2009 | with Martin Gänszle. Rai Mythology: Kiranti Oral Texts. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. |
1993 | Studies in Clause Linkage. Zürich: ASAS. |
2001 | with Fernando Zúñiga: Aktionsart and Aspectotemporality in Non--European Languages. Zürich: ASAS. |
2008 | with Johanna Mattissen & Rafael Suter: From Siberia to Ethiopia. Converbs in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Zürich: ASAS. |
1999a | The UP-DOWN dimension in Rai grammar and mythology. In: Balthasar Bickel & Martin Gaenszle (eds.) Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices. Zürich: Völkerkunde Museum. 107-134. |
1999b | Nonfinite verbs in Kiranti languages. In: Yogendra P. Yadava & Warren W. Glover (eds.) Topics in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepalese Academy. 371-400. |
1999c | Focality degrees in Kalmyk imperfectives. In: Werner Abraham & Leonid Kulikov (eds.) Tense-Aspect , Transitivity and Causativity. Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 323- 339. |
2000a | Progressive markers in Germanic languages. In: Östen Dahl (ed.) Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe. Berlin etc.: Mouton. 603-651. |
2000b | Aspect in Maltese. In: Östen Dahl (ed.) Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe. Berlin etc.: Mouton. 701-733. |
2000c | with Bertinetto, Piermarco & Casper de Groot: The progressive in Europe. In: Östen Dahl (ed.) Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe. Berlin etc.: Mouton. 535- 554. |
2000d | Attributive clauses in Kiranti languages. ASAS WP No. 8. |
2000f | with Lukas Neukom: Towards an areal typology of relative clauses in South Asian languages. ASAS WP No. 9. |
2001a | Tense-aspect flip-flop and a somewhat elusive gram type. In: Ebert & Zúñiga (eds) Aspectotemporality in Non-European Languages. Zürich: ASAS. 141-158. |
2001b | Südasien als Sprachbund. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunkationswissenschaft. Bd. 11.2: Language Typology and Language Universals. Berlin: de Gruyter. 1529-1539. |
2003a | Kiranti languages: An Overview. In: Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla (eds.) The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Surrey: Curzon Press. 505-517. |
2003b | Camling. In: Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla (eds.) The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Surrey: Curzon Press. 533- 545. |
2003c | Equivalents of 'conjunctive participles' in Kiranti languages. In: Tej R. Kansakar & Mark Turin (eds.) Themes in Himalayan Languages and Linguistics. Heidelberg & Kathmandu. 27-47. |
2003d | "Come" and "go" as discourse connectors in Kera and other Chadic languages. In: Erin Shay & Uwe Seibert (eds) Motion, Direction and Location in Languages. In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 111-122. |
2008a | Functions and forms of converbs. In: Ebert, Mattissen & Suter (eds.) From Siberia to Ethiopia. Converbs in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Zürich: ASAS. 7-33. |
2008b | Converbs in Kiranti languages. In: Ebert, Mattissen & Suter (eds.) From Siberia to Ethiopia. Converbs in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Zürich: ASAS. 63-89. |