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The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2002 The grammaticalization of verbs meaning ‘say' and ‘do', in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named ‘descriptive compounds' allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems ...
Cohen, David +2 more
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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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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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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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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns.
Treis, Yvonne
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Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Nr. 41 (2012) - Abstracts [PDF]
, 2012 s der Artikel zu den "SAK" 41 (2012). Die Autoren sind: H. Altenmüller, R. Assem, L. Baqué-Manzano, M. Bommas, A. Brawanski/H.-W. Fischer-Elfert, F. Breyer, G.P.F. Broekman, G. Gabra, B. Haring, A. Jiménez-Serrano, J. Kahl, J. Kahl/M.
Kahl, Jochem (Hrsg.) +1 more
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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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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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