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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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Words of apparent Arabic, Persian, Hindi or Malay origin in KHOE
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The paper builds on the early detection by Carl Meinhof of one or two Arabic loanwords in Nama (Khoekhoe, Khoe), and explores the possibility of other borrowings, from not only from Arabic but also languages of the Cushitic family.
Menan du Plessis
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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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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]
, 2011 A large part of the morphology of Beja, the sole language of the Northern branch of Cushitic (Afroasiatic), belongs to the root and pattern system. This system is typologically similar to the Semitic one (particularly robust in Arabic) and is also found ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2016 version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva +20 more
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How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study [PDF]
, 2008 The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals.
Fuchs, Susanne, Hamann, Silke
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A typology of relative and possessive constructions in Oromo
Afrika und ÜberseeThis study is a description, analysis, and contextualization of relative clauses and adnominal possessive constructions in the Cushitic language Oromo (Afaan Oromoo) spoken in Ethiopia, which are of interest for language typology.
Wakweya Olani Gobena, Andreas Hölzl
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