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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia a Problem of Substratum [PDF]

open access: yes<i>WORD</i>, 1945
(1945). The Influence of Cushitic on the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia a Problem of Substratum. WORD: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 59-82.
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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
International audienceThe Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns.
Treis, Yvonne
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Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
International audienceThe present article is a study of shared lexicalisation patterns in the Ethiopian language area. It discusses how the semantic field of physical perception and the semantic field of taste are carved up in the Highland East Cushitic ...
Treis, Yvonne
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GEN.SG = NOM.PL: A mystery solved?

open access: yesLinguistica Brunensia, 2016
This paper proposes an explanation for the identity of form between GEN.SG and NOM.PL. The paper first shows that the homonymy is attested in Czech as well as a number of other languages.
Pavel Caha
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