The Beja Language Today in Sudan: The State of the Art in Linguistics [PDF]
, 2006 This article gives an overview of the main literature available on the Beja language (Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic) in different linguistic domains: grammatical descriptions, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics, grammaticalization ...
Vanhove, Martine
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On the verbal system in Langi a Bantu language of Tanzania
Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This paper presents the Langi verbal system and the various ways in which tense, aspect and mood are encoded. Through a description of the structures and uses of the various forms, it attempts to demonstrate how the different conjugations fit together to
Margaret Dunham
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The Hadza and the Iraqw in northern Tanzania: Dermatographical, Anthropological, Odontometrical and Osteological Approaches [PDF]
, 1982 The dermatoglyphics, physical measurements, tooth size and dental arch measurements of 4 populations of Mangola are analized and the racial affinities of earlier inhabitants are discussed based on the human remains excavated from Gishimangeda cave and ...
HAYAMA, Sugio, IKEDA, Jiro
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Expressing Future Time Reference in Kambaata
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2011 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 ...
Yvonne Treis
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Morphological Complexity and Conceptualization : The Human Body [PDF]
, 2013 In this squib, I want to argue that the morphological structure of words is, at least to some extent, motivated. As an example I have choosen the partonomic (and for the less part taxonomic) nomenclature of the human body.
Steinkrüger, Patrick O.
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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]
, 2004 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 ...
Hamde, Kiflemariam
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Instability of interactives: The case of interjections in Gorwaa
Open LinguisticsThis article studies the morpho-phonetic instability of interactives through the example of Gorwaa interjections. The analysis of 91 constructions demonstrates that, in Gorwaa, interjections are highly unstable: the number of idiolectal interjections is ...
Andrason Alexander, Harvey Andrew
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023
AethiopicaBibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII ...
Magdalena Krzyżanowska +2 more
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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]
, 2015 During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred ...
Takács, Gábor
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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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