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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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023 [PDF]
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Bulakh, Maria +2 more
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The Evolution of You-Ni Purpose Clauses in Japanese [PDF]
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TSUKIDA, Naomi +2 more
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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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, 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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Gertrud Schneider-Blum, ed. Máakuti t’awá shuultáa: Proverbs Finish the Problems: Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). (Köln 2009) – (Peter Unseth) [PDF]
, 2013 Máakuti t’awá shuultáa: Proverbs Finish the Problems: Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). Ed. Gertrud Schneider-Blum. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages, 28.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2009.
Unseth, Peter
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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 subsumed under another word class and if so, under which one?
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Presentative demonstratives in Kambaata from a Cushitic perspective
, 2020 This article is the first study of presentative demonstratives in a Cushitic language. It closes a gap in the grammatical documentation of Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) and analyzes in detail the morphology and the functions of presentative demonstratives (‘here s/he is!’).
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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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