Grover Hudson

{{short description|American linguist}}

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| birth_date = June 8, 1940

| birth_place = Fort Worth, Texas, US

| death_date = June 13, 2022

| death_place = East Lansing, Michigan, US

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| workplaces = Michigan State University

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| education =University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)

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| thesis_title = Suppletion in the Representation of Alterations

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| thesis_year =1975

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| parents = Joe Milton Hudson, Jeanette Izella Hudson

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Grover M. Hudson (June 8, 1940 – June 13, 2022) was an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at Michigan State University.{{cite web |title=Grover M. Hudson (1940-2022) |url=https://africanstudies.org/in-memory/grover-m-hudson-1940-2022/ |website=African Studies Association Portal - ASA |date=29 June 2022}}{{cite web |title=Grover M. Hudson |url=https://eas-et.org/user/grover.m.hudson/ |website=Ethiopian Academy of Sciences}}

He was known for his works on the Amharic language.{{cite journal |last1=Guss-Kosicka |first1=Marlene |title=Anbessa Teferra - Grover Hudson: Essentials of Amharic |journal=Aethiopica |date=8 April 2012 |volume=12 |pages=278–279 |doi=10.15460/aethiopica.12.1.121 |language=de |issn=2194-4024|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=RICHTER |first1=R. |title=REVIEWS |journal=Journal of Semitic Studies |date=1 January 2000 |volume=XLV |issue=2 |pages=389–390 |doi=10.1093/jss/XLV.2.389}}{{cite journal |last1=Meyer |first1=Ronny |title=Review of Northeast African Semitic: Lexical Comparison and Analysis |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |date=2018 |volume=168 |issue=2 |pages=493–497 |doi=10.13173/ZEITDEUTMORGGESE.168.2.0493}}

Works

  • Essays on Gurage language and culture : dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 1996
  • Cushitic Lexicon and Phonology. ed. Grover Hudson. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik / Research in African Studies, 28). Berlin: Peter Lang. {{ISBN|978-3-631-60089-4}}
  • Essential introductory linguistics, 1999
  • Anbessa Teferra and Grover Hudson (2007). Essentials of Amharic. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  • Ethiopian Semitic archaic heterogeneity
  • Ethiopian Semitic negative nonpast
  • Ethiopian Semitic Overview
  • Ethiopic Documents: Argobba Grammar and Dictionary
  • Geoloinguistic evidence for Ethiopian semitic prehistory
  • Gurage Studies: Collected Articles
  • {{cite book |last1=Hudson |first1=Grover |title=Highland East Cushitic Dictionary |date=1989 |publisher=Helmut Buske Verlag |location=Hamburg |isbn=3-87118-947-2}}
  • History of the people of Ethiopia
  • Linguistics and the university education, 1980
  • New trends in Ethiopian studies : Ethiopia 94 : papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Michigan State University, 5-10 September 1994
  • Northeast African semitic lexical comparisons and analysis
  • Paradigmatic Initiation of a Sound Change in Hadiyya
  • Phonology of Ethiopian languages
  • The Principled Grammar of Amharic Verb Stems
  • The Role of SPCs in Natural Generative Phonology
  • Suppletion in the representation of alternations, 1975
  • Why Amharic is not a VSO language

References