Results 51 to 60 of about 90 (69)

General overview of Ethiosemitic

2023
Abstract Several theories were suggested as to the origin of Ethiosemitic, ranging from the immigration by one or several waves of speakers of Semitic from South Arabia to the Western coast of the Red Sea and up to the designation of East Africa as the original habitat of Semites in general.
Olga Kapeliuk
exaly   +2 more sources

Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic

2014
The main objective of this chapter is identifying the possible instances of the processes of grammaticalization of body part terms in more than ten Ethiosemitic languages. Grammatical morphemes (grams) evolve from lexical morphemes (lexemes). A grammaticalizing morpheme shifts from a category with large membership to a category with smaller and smaller
exaly   +2 more sources

Vocabulary Insertion in Two Steps: Evidence from Anti-Homophony Effects in Ethiosemitic

Linguistic Inquiry
Abstract Certain Amharic verbal constructions include a main verb and an auxiliary that are both inflected for subject agreement. However, in certain φ-feature combinations, one of the agreement markers is absent. We distinguish two patterns of agreement disappearance and develop an analysis of both on which full agreement in the ...
Ruth Kramer
exaly   +2 more sources

On the Internal Classification of Ethiosemitic

Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, 2018
Ronny Meyer
exaly   +3 more sources

74. Ethiosemitic-Cushitic Language Contact

2011
Ronny Meyer
exaly   +2 more sources

Ethiosemitic–Chadic Lexical Parallels

2016
exaly   +4 more sources

Aspect and tense in Ethiosemitic languages

2016
Ronny Meyer
exaly   +2 more sources

Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic)

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2018
exaly   +3 more sources

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. To achieve the objective, native speaker informants, written texts, and introspection (for Amharic) were used as sources of data. The findings reveal that six valency types of verbs are in use in
Tsige Yohannes Zeleke, Desalaegn Hagos Asfawwesen, Shimels Mazengia   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

RONNY MEYER, Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Athiosemitisch) (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 25). RONNY MEYER, Wolane: Descriptive Grammar of an East Gurage Language (Ethiosemitic) (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 31).

Journal of Semitic Studies, 2012
A D Rubin, Aaron D Rubin
exaly   +2 more sources