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Investigating Valency in Causative Verb Derivational Mechanisms: The Case of the Oromo Language [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This paper examines verb derivation in Oromo, focusing on how causative morphological suffixes such as -s-, -sis-, and -sisiis- alter verb valency and argument structure.
Ayub Ismael Jarso
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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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Singulatives in a sample of Cushitic languages: a comparative study

, 2022
Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Dires, Rahel T. 2022. Singulatives in a sample of Cushitic languages: a comparative study. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 19/10/2022.
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Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry [PDF]

, 2019
This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia. Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three
Elias, Alexander
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Expressing future time reference in Kambaata [PDF]

, 2012
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 ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity

Linguistic Discovery, 2018
This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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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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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]

, 2010
The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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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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Language policy in Ethiopia in the 20th century

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2001
The languages spoken in Ethiopia belong to four linguistic families: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan, and the speakers of each of these families found themselves within the borders of this state at various times in history and for various ...
Ewa Wołk
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