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Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic language contact in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceAfrica has up until now been considered a continent where switch-reference systems are extremely rare. This study shows that there is a confined area in the South of Ethiopia where many Omotic languages and a few Cushitic languages ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Applicative constructions in Cushitic

open access: yes
International audienceThis chapter provides an overview of applicative constructions and applicative lookalikes in the five branches of Cushitic languages for which enough data show that such constructions exist: Central Cushitic, Northern Cushitic, and ...
Vanhove, Martine
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley   +1 more source

Semisupervised Learning‐Based Word‐Sense Disambiguation Using Word Embedding for Afaan Oromoo Language

open access: yesApplied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Natural language is a type of language that human beings use to communicate with each other. However, it is very difficult to communicate with a machine‐understandable language. Finding context meaning is challenging the activity of automatically identifying machine translation, indexing engines, and predicting neighbor words in natural language.
Tabor Wegi Geleta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

5. Grammaticalization in Cushitic, with special reference to Beja

open access: yes, 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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVIII: 2024

open access: yesAethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVIII: 2024 
Magdalena Krzyżanowska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1991
Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The
Christopher Ehret
doaj   +3 more sources

Tanzanian Cushitic History

open access: yes
<p>I present the main results of the LHEAf project, <a href="http://www.lheaf.org/">www.lheaf.org</a> on this topic arguing 1. South Cushitic is not part of East Cushitic, 2.
Mous, Maarten
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Links between Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and the position of Kujarge

open access: yes, 2015
It has long been claimed that Cushitic languages show a special link with Chadic; in an extreme case, it has been claimed some East Chadic languages are Cushitic (e.g. Whitehouse 2005 on Kujarge).
Blench, Roger
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A lexical and phonological reconstruction of Highland East Cushitic including a comparative East Cushitic database [PDF]

open access: yes
The Highland East Cushitic (HEC) languages, including Burji, Hadiyya, Kambaata, Sidaama, and Gedeo, are spoken by more than seven million people in southern Ethiopia.
Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Ali, A.
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