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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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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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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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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology
Folia OrientaliaThe contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages
, 2013 The present volume is a selection of the papers presented during the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic languages held in Paris 16-18 April 2008. The book, which contais 14 articles, is organized into three sections: 1.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude +1 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2016 In Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia), a sentence contains an inflectional element separate from the verb. This is in essence a subject clitic and a sentence type indicator.
Ongaye O. Orkaydo, Maarten Mous
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An Excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon
Folia OrientaliaThe present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries.
Václav Blažek
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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2022 McQuillan MA +7 more
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Why did doctrinal religions first appear in the Northern Subtropical Zone? [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2023 Dunbar RIM.
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Whole genome sequencing reveals population diversity and variation in HIV-1 specific host genes. [PDF]
Front Genet, 2023 Thami PK +6 more
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