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Divine Madness

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1995
This book is a welcome addition to the few book-length biographies of important African historical figures. The study, which consists of an introduction and six chapters, offers a fresh and balanced perspective on one of Africa's most controversial ...
Alusine Jalloh
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A Bigger Picture of Early Literacy and Biliteracy Acquisition in Abugidas: Perspectives from Asian and African Languages

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.
Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022

open access: yesAethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022.
Magdalena Krzyżanowska   +2 more
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Similative, equative, and comparative constructions in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
version avant révisionsInternational audienceThis paper deals with the various syntactic strategies used for the expression of similarity, equality and comparison in Beja in a comparative and typological perspective.
Vanhove, Martine
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Cycles of negation in Rangi and Mbugwe [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley   +1 more source

Semisupervised Learning‐Based Word‐Sense Disambiguation Using Word Embedding for Afaan Oromoo Language

open access: yesApplied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Natural language is a type of language that human beings use to communicate with each other. However, it is very difficult to communicate with a machine‐understandable language. Finding context meaning is challenging the activity of automatically identifying machine translation, indexing engines, and predicting neighbor words in natural language.
Tabor Wegi Geleta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification

open access: yesLinguistics
Moras play an important role in Lowland East Cushitic tone/accent assignment, but their contributions elsewhere in these languages’ grammars are not well established.
Green Christopher R., Cunia Aline
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Modification of the Noun in Somali: Comparative Evidence from other Cushitic languages

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001
No abstract available.
Bendjaballah, Sabrina   +1 more
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Negation in Highland East Cushitic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a small group of five closely related languages and their dialects in Southern Ethiopia, in which not less than eight non-cognate negative morphemes are attested.
Treis, Yvonne
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