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Language in Africa, 2022 Cross-linguistically, body parts have been claimed to be universally recruited as a source domain for conceptual metaphors. This article presents a preliminary corpus-based study of the metaphorical constructions in which the noun ginʔa ‘heart’ is used in Beja, the sole language of the North-Cushitic branch (Afroasiatic).
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Lingua Posnaniensis, 2013 Abstract The Beja (Beḍawye) language is the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of the Cushitic languages. Although there are several dialects, e.g. Amar’ar, Arteiga, Beni Amer, Bishari, Hadendowa, Halenga etc., scholars collecting the lexical data of the Beja language usually do not distinguish between individual ...
Václav Blažek
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, 2020 This chapter argues for two types of outcomes of the long-standing and intense contact situation between Beja and Arabic in Sudan: borrowings at the phono\-logical, syntactic and lexical levels, and convergence at the morphological level.
Vanhove, Martine, Martine, Vanhove
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The foreigner, the Beja and the leopard
, 2018 Conforms to: CorpAfroAs Glossing ...
Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique
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Precolonial Beja: A Periphery at the Crossroads
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2006 The Beja, or Bedawiye, people speaking the Northern Cushitic language called “Bedawiet”, have literally since “time immemorial” occupied the Eastern deserts of Sudan, Egypt and possibly Eritrea. They today consist of the subgroups Ababda, Bishariin, Atmaan/Amar´ar, Hadendowa and sections of the Beni Amer.
Dahl, Gudrun, Hjort-af-Ornäs, Anders
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, 2018 Recording session done by the collector/researcher in the speaker's neighbour's house. Were present : the colector/researcher and a female audience (all beja speakers) made of neighbours, relatives and ...
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This chapter presents the negative constructions of Beja, a North-Cushitic (Afroasiatic)language, which are basically asymmetrical. It discusses in turn (i) standardnegation in declarative main clauses with A/Cat/TAM asymmetry; (ii) the twonegative types in non-declaratives, one of which does not use a negator but stemalternation and specific ...
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, 2012 Beja (Ar. Bāja), a district in and the capital city of the present-day Portuguese sub-region (formerly province) of Baixo Alentejo, was described by Arabic geographers variously as a madīna (city), kūra (province), or iqlīm (district) of western al-Andalus (Gharb).
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