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Word Classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
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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Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]
The new monograph on Egyptian historical grammar by J. P. Allen appeared merely some two decades after A. Loprieno’s (1995) book with similar scope and aims.
Takács, Gábor
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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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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]
During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred ...
Takács, Gábor
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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]
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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Mind in Africa, Body in Europe: The Struggle for Maintaining and Transforming Cultural Identity - A Note from the Experience of Eritrean Immigrants in Stockholm [PDF]
This paper describes how individuals and groups who had crossed physical, national boundaries', and who live in a different social context make sense of their lives make sense of their lives by re-constructing their identities - of the sense of who they ...
Hamde, Kiflemariam
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"Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool"
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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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. [PDF]
McQuillan MA +7 more
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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]
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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Mood and Modality in Beja [PDF]
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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