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Cycles of negation in Rangi and Mbugwe [PDF]
, 2015 The Tanzanian Bantu languages Rangi and Mbugwe both employ a double negation marking strategy. In Rangi, verbal negation is achieved through the presence of a pre-verbal negative marker and a negative marker which appears either post-verbally or in a ...
Gibson, Hannah, Wilhelmsen, Vera
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Word Classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
, 2023 Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the word classes in Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic languages. It illustrates different scenarios in the make-up and evolution of word categories, which focuses on verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
Oréal, Elsa, Vanhove, Martine
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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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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]
, 2015 My series „Some Berber Etymologies” is to gradually reveal the still unknown immense Afro-Asiatic heritage in the Berber lexical stock. The first part with some miscellaneous Berber etymologies was published back in 1996. Recently, I continued the series
Takács, Gábor
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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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Mood and Modality in Beja [PDF]
, 2013 version avant révisionTwo intriguing, and crosslinguistically unfrequent, formal means for the expression of modality are discussed in this paper: (i) the cliticization of a nominal copula to finite verb forms, and (ii) the cliticization of a special set
Vanhove, Martine
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"Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool"
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 This paper is an analysis of the basic and extended meanings of temperature lexemes and the grammar of temperature expressions in Kambaata in comparison to related Highland East Cushitic languages of Ethiopia.
Yvonne Treis, Deginet Wotango Doyiso
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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]
, 2015 The paper re-examines the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of the anatomical terminology of Ancient Egyptian in the context of many new results issuing from current progress in Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) comparative ...
Takács, Gábor
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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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