Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]
, 2015 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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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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The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2002 The grammaticalization of verbs meaning ‘say' and ‘do', in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named ‘descriptive compounds' allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems ...
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThis chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e.
Malibert, Il-Il, Vanhove, Martine
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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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The Hadza and the Iraqw in northern Tanzania: Dermatographical, Anthropological, Odontometrical and Osteological Approaches [PDF]
, 1982 The dermatoglyphics, physical measurements, tooth size and dental arch measurements of 4 populations of Mangola are analized and the racial affinities of earlier inhabitants are discussed based on the human remains excavated from Gishimangeda cave and ...
HAYAMA, Sugio, IKEDA, Jiro
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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]
, 2012 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 to a lesser extent in two neighboring Cushitic languages, Afar and Saho, but not in any other ...
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From Elmolo to Gura Pau: A remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its possible revitalization [PDF]
Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 This article discusses the “extinct” Elmolo language of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya. A surprisingly large amount of the vocabulary of this Cushitic language (whose community shifted to Nilotic Samburu in the 20th century), far from being lost and forgotten, is still known and is, to a certain extent, still used.
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Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Language Shift and a Contact-Induced Explanation to What Looks Like an Internally Motivated Sound Change [PDF]
, 2015 As discussed by Thomason & Kaufman (1988: 111), there has long been a bias among historical linguists against explanations based on shift-induced interference and that this is partly due to a methodological problem that arises in shift situations ...
Tse, Holman
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Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa [PDF]
, 2008 The introduction of the Roman script since the turn of the 20th century was the first attempt of mass alphabetization in Africa, and it has become the most important writing system. It was, however, not the first script on the continent. In Old Egypt and
Pasch, Helma
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