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Get that into your head: Tigre vowel harmonies as templatic
Glossa, 2017 This article argues that vocalic expressions are templatic: they have a head position and a dependent position. It follows that the same element can appear in both positions.
Noam Faust
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Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari
AethiopicaThere is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed ...
Ewald Wagner
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Ancient features of Ancient Ethiopic [PDF]
, 2012 ‘Ancient features’ of Ethiopic in Aksumite inscriptions and ancient MSS must be discussed with consideration of the philological aspects implied, and their distribution may hint at the coexistence of parallel scribal traditions during Aksumite and early ...
Bausi, Alessandro
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Lutz Edzard (ed.), Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
, 2014 Review
Bausi, Alessandro
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Fine‐Tuning BERT Models for Multiclass Amharic News Document Categorization
Complexity, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Bidirectional encoder representation from transformer (BERT) models are increasingly being employed in the development of natural language processing (NLP) systems, predominantly for English and other European languages. However, because of the complexity of the language’s morphology and the scarcity of models and resources, the BERT model is not ...
Demeke Endalie, Hassan Zargarzadeh
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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 ...
Cohen, David +2 more
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Reading 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
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Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon VI: Numerals [PDF]
, 2015 The first part of my series „Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon” re-examined the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of certain items of the Ancient Egyptian anatomical terminology in the context of many new results ...
Takács, Gábor
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Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics: complex predicates, finiteness and interrogativity [PDF]
, 2014 Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia. The first section of the volume consists of
Amha, Azeb, Meyer, Ronny, Treis, Yvonne
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South Arabian and Yemeni dialects [PDF]
, 2011 It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged, to ...
Watson, JCE
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