🧑‍🔬 Ronny Meyer

🏛️ Affiliations

🔬Langage, langues et cultures d'AfriqueVillejuif · France2017–2026 · 57 papersEmployment since 2017 · enseignant-chercheurcurrent🎓Institut National des Langues et Civilisations OrientalesParis · France2017–2026 · 33 papersEmployment since 2017 · enseignant-chercheur, Département Afrique et Océan indiencurrent🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France2019–2026 · 29 paperscurrent🎓Johannes Gutenberg University MainzMainz · Germany1997–2012 · 4 papersEducation 1997–2003 · Dr. phil. (PhD), Institut für Ethnologie und AfrikastudienEmployment 1997–2008 · PhD researcher, Postdoc, SFB 295: Cultural and Linguistic Contacts🎓Addis Ababa UniversityAddis Ababa · Ethiopia2011–2023 · 2 papers

🏛️Addis Ababa University, College of Humanities, Language Studies, Journalism and CommunicationAddis Ababa · Ethiopia2010–2017Employment 2010–2017 · Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

🏛️Bibliothèque interuniversitaire des langues orientalesFrance2017Employment since 2017

🏛️Addis Ababa University, Institute of Languages StudiesAddis Ababa · Ethiopia2008–2010Employment 2008–2010 · Associate Professor, Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature

🎓Leipzig UniversityLeipzig · Germany1991–1997Education 1991–1997 · M.A., Afrikanistik

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

2010s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic (2024 · 1 citation)
   The paper asks whether Amharic ideophones form a distinct word class and how they behave inside complex predicates.
2. Michael B. Ahland: Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language (2013 · 1 citation)
   This is Ronny Meyer's review article of Michael B. Ahland's book on Mesmes (Mäsmäs), an Ethiosemitic Gurage language that has recently died out. Ahland's monograph is an edited version of his 2004 M.A. thesis. It builds on a short text recorded in 2001 from the last remaining speaker, together with older wordlists…
3. December 13–14, 2007 in Mainz: Workshop on “Language contact in Ethiopia: Examples from Cushitic, Omotic and Semitic languages” (2012)
   This item is a short conference report, not a research paper, so it contains no data, experiments or measured results.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Aethiopica ×2: Aethiopica 2013, Aethiopica 2012
• Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads: Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 2024

🔗 Cited by

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