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Negation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
, 2023 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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ACOUSTICALLY CHARACTERIZING NASAL SOUNDS OF KAMBAATA LANGUAGE
, 2019 Abstract—this paper analyzes acoustic characteristics of nasal sounds of Kambaata language at their place of articulation by using autoregressive moving average(ARMA) model. The ARMA model is an extension of Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) model, which incorporatethe zeros of the transfer function of vocal tract ...
Hussein Seid,, Mitiku Tamirat
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Kambaata-Amharic code-switching: Focus on the morphological integration of verbs
International audienceIn this paper, we study the integration of established and adhoc Amharic loans into the morphology of Kambaata (Cushitic/Ethiopia).
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, 2007 Based on oral and written text data, the present article investigates in which morphosyntactic constituents the semantic components of a motion event (i.e. path, manner, figure and ground of motion) are realised in Kambaata. Although the path of motion is lexicalised in many verb roots, the analysis points out the great importance of case morphemes on ...
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Kambaata-Xambaaro Zone and its woredas
, 2016 This map can be seen in : Yvonne Treis. Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity. Linguistic Discovery, 2018, On the expression of comparison: Contributions to the typology of comparative constructions from lesser-known languages ...
Picard, Jérôme
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, 2012 The present article analyses children's songs and word games of the Cushitic language Kambaata and follows up on the question whether this text genre can contribute useful data for a grammatical analysis of this little known language. The corpus of nine texts, which are glossed, translated and annotated, constitute the core of this article.
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Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond
, 2010 The present article is a study of shared lexicalisation patterns in the Ethiopian language area. It discusses how the semantic field of physical perception and the semantic field of taste are carved up in the Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata and in genetically related and/or geographically adjacent languages.
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Relativization in Kambaata from a typological point of view
, 2008 Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) marks relative clauses in the affirmative supra-segmentally. In the negative, a morpheme -umb is used, which is not attested in related Cushitic languages. Whereas affirmative relative verbs are shown to share features with genitive nouns, negative relative verbs are adjectival in nature.
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