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Grammaticalization of qәl ‘gourd’ in Amharic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Amharic word qəl ‘gourd’ represents a rare case where a plant term serves as the source of a grammaticalization chain. The development occurred in two stages, first metaphoric change, then grammaticalization proper: gourd > skull/head > ...
Gensler, Orin D.
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016

open access: yesAethiopica, 2018
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX ...
Maria Bulakh   +2 more
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Get that into your head: Tigre vowel harmonies as templatic

open access: yesGlossa, 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

open access: yesAethiopica
There 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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020Bibliography of ...
Francesca   +2 more
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Fine‐Tuning BERT Models for Multiclass Amharic News Document Categorization

open access: yesComplexity, 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Ancient features of Ancient Ethiopic [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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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

Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon VI: Numerals [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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