, 2019 This talk examines the various functions of the morphemes called 'impersonal' in the South Cushitic languages of Tanzania. Drawing on a rich body of natural language data, first for Iraqw, and then for Burunge, it is shown that impersonal morphemes are involved in a range of grammatical constructions, some of which (but not all) approximate what has ...
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Mind in Africa, Body in Europe: The Struggle for Maintaining and Transforming Cultural Identity - A Note from the Experience of Eritrean Immigrants in Stockholm [PDF]
This paper describes how individuals and groups who had crossed ‘physical, national boundaries’, and who live in a different social context make sense of their lives make sense of their lives by re-constructing their identities - of the sense of who they
Kiflemariam Hamde
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Notes from the Field: Baskeet Phonological Sketch and Digital Wordlist [PDF]
, 2014 National Foreign Language Resource ...
Treis, Yvonne, Werth, Alexander
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Categorial hybrids in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2012 forthcoming in: Journal of African Languages and LinguisticsThe paper discusses three categorial hybrids in the East Cushitic language Kambaata, viz. negative participles, agent adjectives and verbal nouns, all of which are shown to combine properties of
Treis, Yvonne
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Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 López S +12 more
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Motion events in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2007 published 2008International audienceBased on oral and written text data, the present article investigates in which morphosyntactic constituents the semantic components of a motion event (i.e.
Treis, Yvonne
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Language policy in Ethiopia in the 20th century
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2001 The languages spoken in Ethiopia belong to four linguistic families: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan, and the speakers of each of these families found themselves within the borders of this state at various times in history and for various ...
Ewa Wołk
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Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe present article is a study of shared lexicalisation patterns in the Ethiopian language area. It discusses how the semantic field of physical perception and the semantic field of taste are carved up in the Highland East Cushitic ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Genomic analysis reveals geography rather than culture as the predominant factor shaping genetic variation in northern Kenyan human populations. [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022 Taravella Oill AM +5 more
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Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plant knowledge among three ethnic groups in peri-urban areas of south-central Ethiopia. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023 Tamene S +4 more
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