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Linguistique et langues africaines, 2022 Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, has a rich verbal morphology. This paper first sets out to describe its productive verbal derivation processes, i.e.
Yvonne Treis
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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 389-400, June 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Among Datooga pastoralists of Tanzania, an elaborate in‐law naming taboo has led to the emergence of a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary used by married women. We report on a survey investigating Datooga children's knowledge of this special vocabulary. The questionnaire and our expectations were pre‐registered and the results were analyzed
Alice Mitchell, Péter Marton Rácz
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Hidden Likeness: Avoidance and Iconicity in Batek
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 4-24, May 2021., 2021 In Batek, both iconic and avoidant speech forms only have the desired effect when their sounds are at the same time like, and different to, their referents. This necessary coexistence of likeness and difference in particular speech forms resonates with the sought for coexistence of alterity and affinity in Batek interpersonal relationships.
Alice Rudge
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"Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool"
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 This paper is an analysis of the basic and extended meanings of temperature lexemes and the grammar of temperature expressions in Kambaata in comparison to related Highland East Cushitic languages of Ethiopia.
Yvonne Treis, Deginet Wotango Doyiso
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The approximative derivation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, has a productive, word-class changing approximation derivation. The process marked by the suffix -lab takes adjectival, nominal and verbal roots as inputs and generates approximatives that belong to the ...
Yvonne Treis
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Expressing Future Time Reference in Kambaata
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2011 Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) is an aspect-marking language with a prominent opposition between perfective and imperfective aspect. The absolute location of an event in time (tense) is expressed by devices other than verbal inflection or inferred ...
Yvonne Treis
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The Socio-Economic Role and Status of Handicraftsmen among the Kambaata of Southern Ethiopia
Aethiopica, 2013 Although traditional handicraftsmen play an indispensable economic and socio-cultural role within the society, they have been marginalized and segregated by the peasant population in southern Ethiopia.
Wolde-Selassie Abbute
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The pragmatic particle ’áda in Kambaata (Cushitic)
Journal of African Languages and LiteraturesThis study investigates the morphological makeup, syntactic features and pragmatic functions of ’áda, a pragmatic marker (pm) in Kambaata (Cushitic).
Temesgen Senbeto Wadolo +1 more
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