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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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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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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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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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023

Aethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII ...
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Maria Bulakh, Karin Ghion-Hamadu   +2 more
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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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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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Instability of interactives: The case of interjections in Gorwaa

Open Linguistics
This 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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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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Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceKambaata has a morpheme -aan with which agent nominals can be derived from verbs and nouns. The present article discusses, firstly, the morphological and syntactic characteristics of -aan nominals and the specific problem of which ...
Treis, Yvonne
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