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Emphasis, glottalization and pharyngealization in Semitic and Afroasiatic
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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Two more contexts for Ge‘ez *u > u and three for *a > ǝ
The main Ge‘ez (Classical Ethiopic) verbal adjective is characterized by an ǝ-u vowel melody. Based on cognate evidence, the most basic form of this adjective, 01-stem 1ǝ2u3, derives from a *1a2uː3- pattern and thus shows assimilation of *aCuː > ǝCu ...
Benjamin Suchard
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A Combined Approach towards Measuring Linguistic Distance: A Study on South Ethiosemitic Languages [PDF]
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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Wolf Leslau: Ethiopic Documents: Argobba: Grammar and Dictionary
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David Appleyard
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Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage
The aim of this study was to investigate how entities are conceptualized and quantified in the Gumer Variety of Gurage, a South Ethiosemitic language.
Fekede Menuta
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Das Zay. Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch)
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Ronny Meyer
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The Ethio-Semitic Possessive Pronouns as Predicalizers in Historical Perspective
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Olga Kapeliuk
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Form and qualitative features of demonstratives in ethiosemitic languages [PDF]
Based 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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Ronny Meyer: Wolane. Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic)
Review
David Appleyard
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In Aethiopica 16, the first part of new readings from the al-Malik al-Afḍal’s 14th-century Arabic–Ethiopic Glossary was published. The present paper offers the results of analysis of the second sheet of the Glossary and contains all identifications which
Maria Bulakh, Leonid Kogan
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