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Counting, Measuring And The Semantics Of Classifiers

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
This paper makes two central claims. The first is that there is an intimate and non-trivial relation between the mass/count distinction on the one hand and the measure/individuation distinction on the other: a (if not the) defining property of mass nouns
Susan Rothstein
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Redeployment in language contact: the case of phonological emphasis

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
This article applies the notion of redeployment in second language acquisition to contact-induced diachronic changes. Of special interest are cases where a marked phonological contrast has spread across neighboring languages.
Darin Flynn
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The Structure and Function of Yemsa Adverbial Clauses: Empirical Study

open access: yesДискурс профессиональной коммуникации
Yemsa, an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia, has received limited attention in linguistic research, particularly with regard to its adverbial clauses. The lack of a comprehensive description of Yemsa’s adverbial clauses hinders our understanding of the ...
M. Asrat, G. Mengistu, E. Assefa
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Positive selection in admixed populations from Ethiopia. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Genet, 2020
Walsh S   +5 more
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Genetics and geography of leukocyte telomere length in sub-Saharan Africans. [PDF]

open access: yesHum Mol Genet, 2020
Hunt SC   +17 more
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Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains: three cases in Chadic

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010
The purpose of this article is to describe the grammaticalization of selected functions in Chadic languages[1], functions that have seldom been observed in other languages and that have been largely ignored by literature making theoretical claims but ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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