Grover M. Hudson (born 1940) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

. He is known for his works on the

Amharic language Amharic ( or ; (Amharic: ), ', ) is an Ethiopian Semitic languages, Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic languages, Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara pe ...

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. * 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 * * 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

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1940 births Living people Linguists from the United States Michigan State University faculty University of California, Los Angeles alumni American phonologists {{linguist-stub