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Ronny Meyer: Wolane. Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic)
Aethiopica, 2012 Review
David Appleyard
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The Origin of the Ethiosemitic Verb hlw ‘to be present’
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2022 The Ethiosemitic verb hlw ‘to be present’ is strange in three regards: it shows an unusual alternation between -o and -awa in Classical Ethiopic; it is formally Perfect, but used in the present tense; and it has no verbal cognates in other branches of ...
Suchard, Benjamin, Suchard, B.D.
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Valency Types in South Ethiosemitic Languages
Journal for Semitics, 2023 This article analyses the main characteristics of verb valency types and the behaviour of verbs in morphosyntactic structures in South Ethiosemitic languages.
Tsige Yohannes Zeleke +5 more
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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsAmharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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Form and qualitative features of demonstratives in ethiosemitic languages
Macrolinguistics and MicrolinguisticsBased on the cross-linguistic typological observations in Himmelmann (1996), Diessel (1999), and Dixon (2003, 2010), this study is concerned with the basic form and qualitative functions of demonstratives in Ethiosemitic languages. Ethiosemitic languages
Kassaye, Elizabeth Minae +1 more
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Amharische Syntax in späten Originalwerken des Gǝʿǝz
Aethiopica, 2011 [Wal.: The Gǝʿǝz syntax of the Sälamat, short poems which were added to the text of the Synaxarium at a later date, shows features that are known from modern Ethiosemitic lan-guages, especially Amharic.
Alexander Sima †; herausgegeben von Michael Waltisberg
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Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic)
, 2017 International ...
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude +1 more
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A Combined Approach towards Measuring Linguistic Distance: A Study on South Ethiosemitic Languages [PDF]
, 2020 The distance among closely related languages is usually measured from three dimensions: structural, functional and perceptual. The structural distance is determined by directly quantifying the phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic differences ...
Tekabe Legesse Feleke
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Emphasis, glottalization and pharyngealization in Semitic and Afroasiatic
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This paper investigates the phenomenon of emphasis in Semitic from a phonological perspective. It is well known that Semitic emphatics can be realized either as ejectives (Ethiosemitic) or as pharyngealized consonants (Arabic).
Fabio Gasparini
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