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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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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 453-495, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system.
Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Terje Lohndal
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The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract A classic example of the arbitrary relation between the way a word sounds and its meaning is that microorganism is a very long word that refers to a very small entity, whereas whale is a very short word that refers to something very big. This example, originally presented in Hockett's list of language's design features, has been often cited ...
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 269-284, April 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT British author and literary scholar Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar in 1948 and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, makes significant contributions to the memory and critique of German colonialism in East Africa and its aftermath both in Tanzania and in Germany. This study examines Gurnah's novels Paradise (1994) and Afterlives
Dirk Göttsche
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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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Emphasis, glottalization and pharyngealization in Semitic and Afroasiatic
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This paper investigates the phenomenon of emphasis in Semitic from a phonological perspective. It is well known that Semitic emphatics can be realized either as ejectives (Ethiosemitic) or as pharyngealized consonants (Arabic).
Fabio Gasparini
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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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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
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