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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages
Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2015 This chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e. without or with deictic shift) in four typologically and genetically different Afroasiatic languages of the CorpAfroAs pilot corpus: Beja (Cushitic), Zaar (Chadic), Juba Arabic (Arabic based pidgin) and ...
Martine Vanhove
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A diachronic perspective on ‘prosodies’ in Central Chadic languages (Afroasiatic)
Journal of African Languages and LinguisticsAbstract The paper reports on generalisations drawn from the author’s historical analysis of a sample of some five thousand words, which reflect more than two hundred lexical items from up to sixty-six Central Chadic languages and language varieties.
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Aethiopica, 2023 The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of ...
Michael Kleiner
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Gərma Awgəččäw Dämmäqä, ቋንቋና ነገድ በኢትዮጵያ, I: የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ማንነትና ቅድመታሪክ (ከቋንቋ አንፃር)
Aethiopica, 2021 Book ...
Maria Bulakh
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Gender and number morphology in Ethio-Eritrean semitic languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 The vowel -ā can be identified as a marker of nominal and verbal plurality in different Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The vowels -ā (feminine plural) and -ū (masculine plural) which are used for both internal and external plurals are, according to ...
Tesfay Tewolde Johannes
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The
Christopher Ehret
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Did Proto-Chadic have velar nasals and prenasalised obstruents?
Afrika und Übersee, 2022 Ever since the Afroasiatic affiliation of Chadic as a whole was suggested by Joseph H. Greenberg in his seminal re-classification of African languages since the 1950s and has been generally accepted, i.e.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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The Semitic root evolution (cultural and historical aspect)
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The paper considers the long-ago perceived, but inadequately studied phenomenon of the Semitic root triconsonantism. Some examples of the paradigm realization from the Biblical Hebrew, where the adducing of the third consonant to a 2C-root (biconsonantal)
A.E. Zeldin
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Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, 2021 This article describes and compares the way in which definiteness is expressed in Romance (Catalan and Spanish) and some Slavic and Afro-Asian languages. We present some difficulties concerning definite nominal expressions that speakers of Ukrainian, Egyptian Arabic and Amazigh as L1 face when learning Catalan or Spanish as a second language and we ...
Ferrerós Pagès, Carla +2 more
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