Results 51 to 60 of about 1,449 (185)
A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
doaj +3 more sources
Negation in Highland East Cushitic [PDF]
, 2012 Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a small group of five closely related languages and their dialects in Southern Ethiopia, in which not less than eight non-cognate negative morphemes are attested.
Treis, Yvonne
core +2 more sources
Rethinking one`s own culture [PDF]
, 1994 African people reflecting on their own situation will frequently find themselves in a dilemma to identify with western and traditional values. A case study of the Burji (Ethiopia and Kenya) examplifies this.
Amborn, Hermann, Marcus, H. G.
core +1 more source
Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic Language Contact in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
Journal of Language Contact, 2012 Africa has up until now been considered a continent where switch-reference systems are extremely rare. This study shows that there is a confined area in the South of Ethiopia where many Omotic languages and a few Cushitic languages have fully grammaticalised switch-reference systems on dependent (co-)subordinate non-final verbs, so-called converbs. The
openaire +2 more sources
Sara Petrollino, A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic Language of Ethiopia
Aethiopica, 2020 Review
Ronny Meyer
doaj +1 more source
Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe 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 ...
Treis, Yvonne
core +2 more sources
Nominal suffixes as markers of information structure in Basketo
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2020 This paper deals with the information function of two nominal suffixes, -i appearing in all nouns, and -n- in first- and second-person pronouns in Basketo, a North Omotic language predominantly spoken in the Basketo Special Woreda in Ethiopia.
Hideyuki Inui
doaj +1 more source
The Beja Language Today in Sudan: The State of the Art in Linguistics [PDF]
, 2006 This article gives an overview of the main literature available on the Beja language (Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic) in different linguistic domains: grammatical descriptions, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics, grammaticalization ...
Vanhove, Martine
core +2 more sources
Joachim Crass - Ronny Meyer (eds.): Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area
Aethiopica, 2012 Review
Mauro Tosco
doaj +1 more source
The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2002 The grammaticalization of verbs meaning ‘say' and ‘do', in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named ‘descriptive compounds' allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems ...
Cohen, David +2 more
core +2 more sources