Mesfin Wodajo. Functions and Formal Stylistic Features of Kafa Proverbs. (Saarbrücken: 2012) – (Peter Unseth)

Functions and Formal Stylistic Features of Kafa Proverbs. By Mesfin Wodajo. Saarbrücken, Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Group, 2012. Pp. 112. This collection and study of 130 Ethiopian proverbs is welcome as the very first publication analyzing the proverbs from a language of the Omotic language family. The only other proverb publication from Omotic is a collection of Wolaitta proverbs translated into Amharic, Wolaytäto Lemsuwa by Getachew and Tsägaye (1987 Ethiopian calendar)

Dereje Haile Mamo. Images of Women and the Society’s Attitude in Wolaita Proverbs. (Riga, Latvia: 2018) – (Peter Unseth)

REVIEW Images of Women and the Society’s Attitude in Wolaita Proverbs. By Dereje Haile Mamo. Riga, Latvia: LAP Lambert Aca-demic Publishing, 2018. Pp. 171

Elías Domínguez Barajas. The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network. (Berlin 2010) – (Peter Unseth)

The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network. By Elías Domínguez Barajas. (Contributions to the Sociology of language 98). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. Pp. 189

Mesfin Wodajo. Functions and Formal Stylistic Features of Kafa Proverbs. (Saarbrücken: 2012) – (Peter Unseth)

Functions and Formal Stylistic Features of Kafa Proverbs. By Mesfin Wodajo. Saarbrücken, Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Group, 2012. Pp. 112. This collection and study of 130 Ethiopian proverbs is welcome as the very first publication analyzing the proverbs from a language of the Omotic language family. The only other proverb publication from Omotic is a collection of Wolaitta proverbs translated into Amharic, Wolaytäto Lemsuwa by Getachew and Tsägaye (1987 Ethiopian calendar)

Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt and Melita Aleksa Varga, eds. Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies. (Berlin 2014) – (Peter Unseth)

Introduction to Paremiology: A Comprehensive Guide to Proverb Studies. Ed. by Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt and Melita Aleksa Varga, managing ed. Anna Borowska, associate ed. Darko Matovac, language ed. Aderemi Rajij-Oyelade. Warsaw & Berlin: DeGruyter Open, 2014. Pp. 368. http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/44964

Elías Domínguez Barajas. The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network. (Berlin 2010) – (Peter Unseth)

The Function of Proverbs in Discourse: The Case of a Mexican Transnational Social Network. By Elías Domínguez Barajas. (Contributions to the Sociology of language 98). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. Pp. 189

Jae E. Yang, M.B. Kirkham, Rattan Lal, and Sigbert Huber (eds.). Global Soil Proverbs: Cultural Language of the Soil. (Stuttgart: 2018) – (Peter Unseth)

REVIEW Global Soil Proverbs: Cultural Language of the Soil. Edited by Jae E. Yang, M. B. Kirkham, Rattan Lal, and Sigbert Huber. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2018. Pp. xv and 275

Gertrud Schneider-Blum, ed. Máakuti t’awá shuultáa: Proverbs Finish the Problems: Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). (Köln 2009) – (Peter Unseth)

Máakuti t’awá shuultáa: Proverbs Finish the Problems: Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). Ed. Gertrud Schneider-Blum. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages, 28.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2009. Pp. 102