PUBLICATIONS
Books
Savà, Graziano and Mauro Tosco (2017). An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli’s Dizi Grammar. Cushitic and Omotic Studies 5. Köln: Köppe.
Savà, Graziano (2005). A Grammar of Ts’amakko. Köln: Köppe.
Articles
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (in print). Hunters and gatherers in East Africa and the case of Ongota (South East Ethiopia). Güldemann, Tom, Patrick McConvell and Richard Rhodes (eds.) Hunter-gatherers and linguistic history: a global perspective. Cambridge: University Press.
Savà, Graziano (2018). The Nara project: achievement and perspectives. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 2 (third series): 145-156.
Savà, Graziano (2018). Code-switching from Bayso and Haro to Amharic as a status-change strategy. Susanne Epple (ed.) The State of Status Groups in Ethiopia, Minorities between Marginalization and Integration. Berlin: Reimer:101-119.frt
Savà, Graziano (2017). An Ongota ethnotext on beehive. Ethnorêma, 13:109-122. http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%2013/09%20In%20altre%20lingue.pdf
Savà, Graziano (2017). Bayso, Haro and the “paucal” number: history of contact around the Abbaya and C'amo lakes of south Ethiopia. Ilaria Micheli (ed.) Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016, Trieste: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste:246-256.
Mettouchi, Amina, G. Savà and M. Tosco (2015). The tension between cross- linguistic comparability and language-specificity in CorpAfroAs. Amina Mettouchi, Dominique Caubet and Martine Vanhove (eds.), CorpAfroAs: A Corpus for Afro-Asiatic Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Loredana Cupi, S. Petrollino, G. Savà and M. Tosco (2013). Preliminary notes on the Hamar verb. In: Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Martine Vanhove (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages. Köln: Köppe: 181-195.
Savà, Graziano (2012). A few notes on the documentation of Bayso (Cushitic) and Haro (Omotic): fieldwork organisation and data collection. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 4 (new serie): 153-170.
Savà, Graziano (2011). Endangered Bayso (Cushitic): interesting typological and historical aspects. Luca Busetto, Roberto Sottile, Livia Tonelli and Mauro Tosco (eds.) He bitaney lagge: Studies on Languages and African Linguistics in Honour of Marcello Lamberti. Milan: Quasar: 175-186.
Savà, Graziano and S. Thubauville (2010). The Ongota: A Branch of the Maale People? Ethnographic, Historic and Linguistic Traces of Contact of the Ongota People. Echi Gabbert and Sophia Thubauville (eds.) To live in amity. Essays on CulturalNeighbourhood in Southern Ethiopia. Köln: Köppe: 213-235.
Savà, Graziano (2010). Racconto Ts’amakko (Etiopia). In altre lingue. Ethnorêma 6. http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%206/07%20IN%20ALTR%20LINGUE.pdf
Savà Graziano (2010). Gli Ongota: un piccolo gruppo etnico dell’Etiopia sudoccidentale. Mondofoto. Ethnorêma, 6. http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero %206/06%20MONDOFOTO.pdf
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2008). Ex Uno Plura: the uneasy road of Ethiopian languages towards standardization. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 191: 111-139.
Savà, Graziano (2008). What does Documentation of Endangered Languages Mean? The Case of the Ongota Documentation Project (Southwest Ethiopia). Tomáš Machalík, Kateřina Mildnerová and J. Záhořík (eds.) Viva Africa 2008, Proceedings of the IIIrdInternational Conference on African Studies. Dryada: Ústí nad Labem: 6-13.
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2007). Ongota: back to reality?. Tomas Machalík and J. Záhořík (eds.) Viva Africa 2007. Proceedings of the II International Conference on African Studies. Dryada: Ústí nad Labem: 71-80.
Savà, Graziano (2006). The unmarked verbal paradigm in Ts’amakko (East Cushitic). P.G. Borbone, A. Mengozzi and M.Tosco (eds.) Loquentes Linguis. Studi Linguistici e Orientali in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden: 649-658.
Savà, Graziano (2006). Interaction between gender and number in Cushitic: the case of Ts’amakko. M. Moriggi (ed.) Atti del XII Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-semitica (Afroasiatica). Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino: 203-212.
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2006). La mort des langues en domaine chamito-sémitique. A. Mettouchi and A. Lonnet (eds.) Les Language Chamito-Sémitiques (Afroasiatiques). Faits de Langues 2: 279-290.
Savà, Graziano (2003). Ongota (or Birale), A moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia. Mark Janse and T. Sijmen (eds.) Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, Historical and Descriptive Approaches. Amsterdam: Benjamins: 171-187.
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2003). The classification of Ongota. M. Lionel
Bender, G. Takács and D. Appleyard (eds.) Selected Comparative-Historical Afrasian
Linguistic Studies in memory of Igor M. Diakonoff. München: Lincom Ethiopia: 307-316.
Savà, Graziano (2002). Ts’amakko morphological borrowings in Ongota (or Birale).
Christian Rapold (ed.) Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium Ethiopian Morphosyntax in an Areal Perspective, Leiden on 4-5 May 2001. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 71: 75-93.
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2000). A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of Southwest Ethiopia. Studies in African Linguistics (ERIH ranking “INT1”) 29, 2: 59-134.
Online corpora
Epple Susanne, Lemmi Kebebew and Savà Graziano. Bayso Corpus. Corpus recorded, transcribed and annotated by Susanne Epple, Lemmi Kebebew and Graziano Savà, Volkswagen foundation DoBeS. http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/.
Braukmann Fabienne, Endashaw Woldemichael and Graziano Savà. Haro Corpus.Corpus recorded, transcribed and annotated by Fabienne Braukmann, Endashaw Woldemichael and Graziano Savà, Volkswagen foundation DoBeS. http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser/.
Savà Graziano. Ts’amakko Corpus. Corpus recorded, transcribed and annotated by Graziano Savà, ANR CorpAfroAs: a Corpus for Afroasiatic languages. http://corpafroas.tge-adonis.fr/Archives/ListeFichiersELAN.php.
Other publications
Savà, Graziano (2010). Review of A Grammar of Alaaba. A Highland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia by Gertrud Schneider-Blum. Aethiopica 13 (2010): 300-302
Savà, Graziano (2010). “Ongota, ethnography”. Sigbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. VOL 4 (O-X): 31-32. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden.
Savà, Graziano and M. Tosco (2007). Review article of: Harold C. Fleming Ongota A Decisive Language in African Prehistory. Aethiopica 10 (2007): 223-232.
Savà, Graziano and S.Thubauville (2006). The Ongota: perhaps South Omo’s smallest ethnic group. News from the South Omo Research Center and Museum 1/3 (2006):3 http://www.unimainz.de/Organisationen/SORC/fileadmin/newsletter/Newsletter_July_2006.pdf
Savà, Graziano (2005). “Dullay. Dullay dialect cluster”. Sigbert Uhlig (ed.) Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. VOL 2 (D-Ha): 204-205. Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden.
EDITED VOLUMES
Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous and Graziano Savà (eds. 2007). Omotic and Cushitic Studies, Papers from the Fourth Cushitic and Omotic Conference, Leiden 10-12 April 2003. Köln: Köppe.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited talks
“Definiteness in Ts'amakko”. Workshop on Definiteness in Ethiopian Languages, 16-17 January 2009, University of Zurich.
“The heterogeneity of the Ongota lexicon as the result of cultural contact”. Symposium “Language contact in Ethiopia: Examples from Cushitic, Omotic and Semitic languages” 13-14 December 2007, University of Mainz (with Sophia Thubauville).
“Doing linguistic fieldwork in Southwest Ethiopia: the role of personal relations in my own experience” . VIVA AFRICA 2007, II. International Conference on African Studies, 27-28 April 2007, Pilsen University of West Bohemia.
“Ongota: back to reality?”. VIVA AFRICA 2007, II. International Conference onAfrican Studies, 27-28 April 2007, Pilsen University of West Bohemia (with Mauro Tosco).
“What is Ongota?”. Lecture at the Department of Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, University of Hamburg. 12 February 2007.
Presentations
“The documentation of Nara: grammar, lexicon and texts”. The Erytrean Cultural Heritage: Facts and Project. Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, 12-13 December 2017.
"The origins of the Bayso, their interaction with the Haro and the “paucal” number: history of contacts in and around the Abbaya Lake of South Ethiopia”. Linguistic and Cultural Areas of Transition in Africa. University of Trieste, 25-26 May 2016
“Amharic code-switching in Bayso and its social and gender correlations”. 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, panle "Ethiopia - Diversity and Interconnections through Space and Time". University og Warsaw, 24-28 August, 2015.
“Gli studi italiani di linguistica etiopica: passato, presente e prospettive future”. Incontro di studi sull'Etiopia, 29-30 October 2009, Università di Messina.
“Ongota, a dying language: trailer di un documentario sulla scomparsa della lingua Ongota” 2a Conferenza “Metodologia della Ricerca sul Campo in Africa: Esperienze di Dottorandi e Giovani Ricercatori ”, 5-7 October 2009, Università degli Studi di Napoli "l'Orientale" in Procida.
“Fieldwork and the documentation of endangered languages: the case of Ongota, a language with 15 speakers in Southwest Ethiopia”. 1a Conferenza “Metodologia della Ricerca sul Campo in Africa: Esperienze di Dottorandi e Giovani Ricercatori dell’Orientale di Napoli”, 9-10 July 2008, Università degli Studi di Napoli “l'Orientale”.
“Interaction between Gender and Number in Cushitic: the case of Ts’amakko”. Symposium “Interaction of Gender and Number in the World’s Languages”. 13 October 2005. University of Leiden.
“The clitic =nu in Ts’amakko: between dative and ablative”. 35th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), 29-31 August 2005, University of Leiden.
“Interaction between gender and number in Cushitic: the case of Ts’amakko”. 12th Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camito-Semitica (Afroasiatica), 6-9 June 2005, University of Catania in Ragusa Ibla.
“Non-coercive pressure towards language change: the death of Ongota” 1st International Symposium on Endangered Languages in Ethiopia, 27-30 April 2005, University of Addis Ababa.
“Gender in Ts’amakko” TIN dag (Taalwetenschap in Nederland), 23 February 2002, University of Utrecht.
“Causative derivation in Ts’amakko”. 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, 6-11 November 2000, University of Addis Ababa.
“A survey on Ongota: a moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia”. 14th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, 6-11 November 2000, University of Addis Ababa (with Mauro Tosco)
“Notes on Ts’amakko phonology”. 29th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL), 29 August – 1 September 1999, University of Leiden.
“Towards a Grammar of Ts’amakko”. Poster presentation, CNWS, 12 June 1999, University of Leiden.
“Ensete folk taxonomy in Chaha-Gurage”. Workshop on Enset (Ensete ventricosum) August 1998, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands.
“The parts of the Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) according to Chaha-Gurage folk classification”. 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), 27 July- 3 August 1997, University of Leipzig.