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Focus expressions in Yom [PDF]
, 2009 This paper deals with the means for expressing the pragmatic category of focus in Yom, which is an Oti-Volta language of the Yom-Nawdem group spoken by about 74,000 people (Gordon 2005, online version) in the department of Donga in Northern Benin.
Fiedler, Ines
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The shaping of character: The classics as a remedy for cultural despair in Victorian England
Critical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 4-17, July 2024.
Stephen Gaukroger
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, 2011 A short presentation of Chadic languages for the dictionary 'Les langues du Monde'.Brève présentation des langues tchadiques pour le dictionnaire 'Les langues du ...
Caron, Bernard
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Independent Cyprus? Postcoloniality and the spectre of Europe [PDF]
, 2010 This essay reflects on the postcolonial condition in Cyprus and argues that political independence does not mean the end of colonialism. Power is not merely what prevents people from doing what they wish to do but also, and more importantly, what ...
Argyrou, Vassos
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Hierarchical Character-Word Models for Language Identification
, 2016 Social media messages' brevity and unconventional spelling pose a challenge to language identification. We introduce a hierarchical model that learns character and contextualized word-level representations for language identification. Our method performs
Hathi, Shobhit +4 more
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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]
, 2015 During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred ...
Takács, Gábor
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Grammaticalization as gradual process in Hausa reduplication
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006 Hausa is a Chadic language of Afroasiatic family that extensively uses reduplication for grammatical and lexical formatives. Reduplication as a universal phenomenon is viewed in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives and it has been studied on a ...
Hafizu Miƙo Yakasai
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El caos necesario. Un ensayo sobre la morfología y la sintaxis de los mitos afroasiáticos [PDF]
, 2016 El mito primordial (Urmythos) no es el primer mito documentado historiográficamente, sino el origen de la narración cultural. Podríamos definirlo como aquel que dota a una sociedad de las nociones de orden y de principio temporal para que esta pueda ...
Diego González, Antonio de +2 more
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Investigating Valency in Causative Verb Derivational Mechanisms: The Case of the Oromo Language [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis paper examines verb derivation in Oromo, focusing on how causative morphological suffixes such as -s-, -sis-, and -sisiis- alter verb valency and argument structure.
Ayub Ismael Jarso
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