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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.
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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.
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The causal-noncausal alternation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
2021Paper presented at the 10th World Congress of African Linguistics, online, 7-11 June, 2021: video recording of presentation, slides and data ...
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2014
The Cushitic language Kambaata (South Ethiopia) is a head-final and suffixing language with a rich nominal and verbal morphology. Number is marked on nouns and pronouns, and traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs. This chapter concentrates on number marking on common nouns, thereby focusing on the interaction of number marking with
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The Cushitic language Kambaata (South Ethiopia) is a head-final and suffixing language with a rich nominal and verbal morphology. Number is marked on nouns and pronouns, and traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs. This chapter concentrates on number marking on common nouns, thereby focusing on the interaction of number marking with
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A linguistic documentation of beekeeping in Kambaata
2022This paper present results of a collaborative project on the language of beekeeping in Kambaata, which documents the lexicon and recorded (in written, audio and photographic form) the practical steps of honey production and the cultural setting in which honey is consumed.
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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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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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Adjectival derivation in Kambaata: Proprietive, Agentive, Privative and Similative
2020Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, does not only have a large number of underived adjective lexemes but also several adjectivizing mechanisms. I briefly discuss the productive proprietive (‘possessing, containing N’), agentive (‘who/which V-s’) and privative derivations (‘without N’), before concentrating on the similative derivation, marked by
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