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, 2021 This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Orkaydo, Ongaye Oda
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Crosslinguistic generalizations about reflexive constructions [PDF]
, 2023 Reflexive constructions vary from language to language in the way they encode coreference between two clause participants. While some languages employ a form called reflexivizer, others use a non-reflexive form that may perform a coreference function ...
Katarzyna Janic, Nicoletta Puddu
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Politeness as a feature: so important and so rare [PDF]
, 2012 Politeness has a major place in many languages, and is remarkably pervasive in some. Yet we rarely find respect as a morphosyntactic feature, alongside gender, person, number and case.
Corbett, Greville G.
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII: 2018 [PDF]
, 2020 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII ...
Bulakh, Maria +2 more
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Yvonne Treis: A Grammar of Kambaata, Part 1: Phonology, Nominal Morphology, and Non-verbal Predication [PDF]
, 2011 Review
Appleyard, David L.
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Expressing future time reference in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2012 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 ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Negation in Highland East Cushitic [PDF]
, 2012 Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a small group of five closely related languages and their dialects in Southern Ethiopia, in which not less than eight non-cognate negative morphemes are attested.
Treis, Yvonne
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Approximation in Morphology [PDF]
, 2023 This Special Issue "Approximation in Morphology" has been collated from peer-reviewed papers presented at the ApproxiMo 'discontinuous' workshop (2022), which was held online between December 2021 and May 2022, and organized by Francesca Masini (Bologna),
Francesca Masini +2 more
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Avoidance registers and language contact in Southern Africa [PDF]
, 2020 A presentation at the 2020 Colloquium of African Languages and Linguistics, hosted at Leiden ...
Gunnink, Hilde
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Reflexive constructions in Kambaata
, 2023 Kambaata (Cushitic, Ethiopia) has a nominal and a verbal reflexivizer. The nominal reflexivizer gag-á ‘self’, a case-inflecting noun of masculine gender, is used to mark coreference between the subject and a direct, indirect or oblique object. Whereas the antecedent of the reflexive noun is most commonly the subject of the same clause, this chapter ...
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