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The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: insights from Semitic languages [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistics
Complementation strategies in both ancient and modern Semitic languages include the use of a series of cognate complementizers typically sharing a k-element: e.g., Tigrinya käm, Modern Hebrew ki, Akkadian kī(ma) or Ge’ez kama.
Hernáiz Rodrigo
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Minding the Gaps in the Wolane Verbal System

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019
Meyer (2006) classifies the verbs of the Ethiosemitic language Wolane into three major types and several subtypes, according to the surface vocalizations of the three stems of each verb.
Noam Faust
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Towards a Comprehensive Edition of the Arabic–Ethiopic Glossary of al-Malik al-Afḍal. Part III: New Readings from the Third Sheet

open access: yesAethiopica, 2016
In Aethiopica 16 and 17, the first and the second sheets of the al-Malik al-Afḍal’s fourteenth-century Arabic–Ethiopic Glossary have been analysed. The present paper offers the results of the analysis of the third—and last—sheet of the Glossary and ...
Maria Bulakh, Leonid Kogan
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII: 2018

open access: yesAethiopica, 2020
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII ...
Maria Bulakh   +2 more
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Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2023
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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Two more contexts for Ge‘ez *u > u and three for *a > ǝ

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee, 2023
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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