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, 2023 The Ethiopian language Kambaata (Cushitic) has five distinct negative inflectional suffixes that negate (i) declarative main verbs and non-verbal predicates, (ii) imperatives, (iii) jussives and benedictives, (iv) converbs and (v) relative verbs.
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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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Manner, quality, degree and quantity demonstratives in Kambaata
, 2019 This presentation on Kambaata (Cushitic) follows the questionnaire on manner, quality, degree and quantity demonstratives in Ethiopian languages developped by Ronny Meyer and Yvonne Treis.
Treis, Yvonne
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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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Interjections in Kambaata [revised]
, 2023 paper presented at the Vielfaltslinguistik 5 ...
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Similative and equative demonstratives in Kambaata [PDF]
Faits de Langues, 2019 Based on data from recordings, written sources and elicitation, the present paper investigates in detail the morphology, morphosyntax and use of six similative and equative demonstratives in Kambaaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. The first manner demonstrative, hitt-ita ‘like this’, is a simplex pronoun; the stem of the second demonstrative ...
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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios. [PDF]
Linguist Typol, 2023 Di Garbo F, Napoleão de Souza R.
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Linguistic changes and changing practices in Kambaata beekeeping
International audienceIn the Kambaata community in the Central Ethiopia Region, we still find a flourishing tradition of home-garden beekeeping in locally produced bamboo beehives.
Zecharias, Yoseph Yonas, Treis, Yvonne
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The apprehensive in Kambaata (Cushitic): Form, meaning and origin
, 2022 Kambaata, a Cushitic language, has a dedicated, fully grammaticalised apprehensive paradigm without known parallels in related or neighbouring languages. This chapter presents an analysis of the morphology, syntax, meaning and origin of the apprehensive. Morphological and syntactic criteria demonstrate its main clause status.
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Negation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
, 2021 International audienceThe Ethiopian language Kambaata (Cushitic) has five distinct negative inflectional suffixes that negate (i) declarative main verbs and non-verbal predicates, (ii) imperatives , (iii) jussives and benedictives, (iv) converbs and (v ...
Treis, Yvonne
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