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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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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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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology

Folia Orientalia
The 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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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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Grammaticalisation in Cushitic languages

, 2019
International audienceReconstructible grammaticalisation processes in Cushitic (Afroasiatic) concern mainly the pronominal and verbal domains, markers of subordination, adpositions, questions words and discourse particles. This presentation, based on the
Vanhove, Martine
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Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic language contact in Southwest Ethiopia

, 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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Early East African and Peripheral East Cushitic: Foragers and pastoralists in early East Africa

, 2022
<p>The languages spoken in East Africa before the introduction of pastoralism and agriculture are little known; isolates such as Hadza and Shabo (Ch'abu) are still extant, but these are surely remnants of an earlier rich diversity that must ...
Tosco, Mauro, Sands, Bonny
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Subject clitics in Konso

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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The Middle in Cushitic Languages

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
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Singulatives in a sample of Cushitic languages: a comparative study

, 2022
This talk focuses on singulative markers used in the expression of number in Cushitic languages (Afro-Asiatic) spoken in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.
Dires, Rahel T.
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