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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 Sciences
This 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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The Benue-Gongola-Chad Basin : zone of ethnic and linguistic compression [PDF]

, 2006
We wish to emphasize the fact that so far our investigations have concentrated on documenting large bodies of data covering a number of linguistic units in an area which - as we hope to have demonstrated - displays a highly complex linguistic and ethnic ...
Jungraithmayr, H., Leger, R.
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceThis chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e.
Malibert, Il-Il, Vanhove, Martine
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Review: Encyclopedia of linguistics [PDF]

, 2005
The two volumes of this new encyclopedia contain over five hundred self-contained essays, each between 1000 and 3000 words, covering a very wide range of topics.
Barnard, Roger
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.
Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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The subject and non-subject agreements in the Yemsa relative clauses [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study aims to elucidate the subject and non-subject agreement mechanisms within Yemsa relative clauses, an area not comprehensively covered by existing research. By analysing these agreement forms, the study seeks to bridge the identified gap in the
Mitike Asrat
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STAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and multiverb predicates in the Chadic languages

Afrika und Übersee
STAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and the multiverb predicate subtype called auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) that these derive from in the Chadic languages are discussed. Chadic languages are typically SVO (or VSO) and typically AUX V syntactically.
Gregory D. S. Anderson
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Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry [PDF]

, 2019
This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia. Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three
Elias, Alexander
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(In)definiteness Spread in Semitic Construct State: Does it Really Exist? [PDF]

, 2017
To argue against a long established assumption seems to be not that easy task. In this article, I argue against one of those assumptions, namely (in)definiteness spread in Semitic Construct State (CS).
Shormani, Mohammed Q.
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition

Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.
Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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