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Words of apparent Arabic, Persian, Hindi or Malay origin in KHOE
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The paper builds on the early detection by Carl Meinhof of one or two Arabic loanwords in Nama (Khoekhoe, Khoe), and explores the possibility of other borrowings, from not only from Arabic but also languages of the Cushitic family.
Menan du Plessis
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Expressing future time reference in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2012 Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) is an aspect-marking language with a prominent opposition between perfective and imperfective aspect. The absolute location of an event in time (tense) is expressed by devices other than verbal inflection or inferred ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Negation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
, 2023 The Ethiopian language Kambaata (Cushitic) has five distinct negative inflectional suffixes that negate (i) declarative main verbs and non-verbal predicates, (ii) imperatives , (iii) jussives and benedictives, (iv) converbs and (v) relative verbs.
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African mitochondrial haplogroup L7: a 100,000-year-old maternal human lineage discovered through reassessment and new sequencing. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Maier PA +3 more
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007 Review of David L. Appleyard, A Comparative Dictionary of the Agew Language,“Kuschitische Sprachstudien / Cushitic Language Studies” 24, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2006, 200 pp.
Laura Łykowska
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The Typology of Number Borrowing in Berber [PDF]
, 2007 The question of which numbers are most easily borrowed, and in which contexts, has implications for an understanding both of historical change and language contact and of the extent to which the linguistic behaviour of numbers can be related to ...
Souag, Lameen
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On-farm diversity, use pattern, and conservation of enset (Ensete ventricosum) genetic resources in southern Ethiopia. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023 Dilebo T, Feyissa T, Asfaw Z, Zewdu A.
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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The Middle in Cushitic Languages
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001 Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
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Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]
, 2015 The new monograph on Egyptian historical grammar by J. P. Allen appeared merely some two decades after A. Loprieno’s (1995) book with similar scope and aims.
Takács, Gábor
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