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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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Converb constructions and clause chaining in Cushitic
, 2022 International audienceThis chapter describes the morphology and syntax of converbs in eleven Cushitic languages, with a special focus on Beja and Kambaata. Cushitic converbs are used in clause-chaining function but chains are considerably shorter than in
Treis, Yvonne, Vanhove, Martine
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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5. Grammaticalization in Cushitic, with special reference to Beja
, 2020 accepté in Handbook on Grammaticalization Scenarios and Areal Patterns, Andrej Malchukov and Walter Bisang (eds). New-York: De Gruyter.Reconstructible grammaticalization processes in Cushitic (Afroasiatic) concern mainly the pronominal and verbal domains,
Vanhove, Martine, Martine Vanhove
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Negation in Highland East Cushitic
, 2012 Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a small group of five closely related languages and their dialects in Southern Ethiopia, in which not less than eight non-cognate negative morphemes are attested. In this paper I take a comparative look at the forms and functions of these negative morphemes.
Treis, Yvonne
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Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2020 Tana River County is home to a number of Bantu and Cushitic speech communities. The dominant groups are the Pokomo and the Orma, while other groups include the Waata/Sanye, Wardei, Ilwana/Malakote, Dahalo, Munyo-yaya, and some Somalis.
Bichang’a W. Nyaigoti
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
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Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification
LinguisticsMoras play an important role in Lowland East Cushitic tone/accent assignment, but their contributions elsewhere in these languages’ grammars are not well established.
Green Christopher R., Cunia Aline
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsIn the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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