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, 2023 Abstract Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in southwestern Ethiopia. It has a phonemic length contrast both in its vowel and consonant systems. Kambaata is agglutinating-fusional and suffixing, with many portmanteau morphemes.
Treis, Yvonne
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Cardinal numerals in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2007 In the Cushitic language Kambaata (Ethiopia) most cardinal numerals belong to the same word class as adjectives. As modifiers they agree with their head nouns in case and gender. Only higher numerals such as '100', '1000' and 'million' are noun-like and invariantly encoded in the genitive case when modifying a head noun. The present study does not only
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, 2007 The paper elaborates on the synchronic functions and formal features of the non-locative copulas -ha/-ta and -VV-t in Kambaata. It discusses the intricate distribution rules of the copulas and the relationship between proximal demonstratives, case/gender markers and copulas.
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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2010 The Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns. A third type of purpose clause is modelled on a similative clause and contains a relative verb to which an enclitic 'like' is added.
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsIn the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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Complementation strategies in Kambaata
, 2012 The choice of the complementation strategy in Kambaata is dependent on (morpho-)syntactic parameters and the semantic class of the complement-taking verb. There are no independent complementisers but syntactic dependence is marked by verbal inflection and by clause-final enclitics. There is a considerable overlap between the strategies employed for the
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, 2014 This paper analyses the expression of number; more precisely, it investigates on which parts of speech and by which linguistic means number is grammatically encoded in Kambaata (Cushitic, Ethiopia). Number is marked, to different degrees, on common nouns, proper nouns and pronouns. Traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs.
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Similarity and equality demonstratives in Kambaata
, 2016 After a general introduction into comparative, equative and similative constructions, the paper focusses on a discussion of the morphology and the deictic and non-deictic uses of simlarity and equality demonstratives in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic of Ethiopia.
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, 2015 My paper gives a descriptive account of the functional, morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic properties of the coordinative morpheme -V in Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, and thus makes a contribution to the development of a typology of additive particles, as intended by the workshop.
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Backchanneling in Kambaata conversations
International audienceOur poster presents an overview of backchanneling devices as they are attested in interactive language data from the Ethiopian language Kambaata (Cushitic).
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