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, 1981 We wordsters owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of indefatigable delvers in the mines of language who bring out the ore which we smelt to fashion our tools and toys. Let me illustrate this by singling out an important and fascinating book by C.
Partridge, Harry B.
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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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Structure and ancestry patterns of Ethiopians in genome-wide autosomal DNA. [PDF]
Hum Mol Genet, 2021 Hellenthal G, Bird N, Morris S.
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Singing the Individual: Name Tunes in Oyda and Yopno. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Amha A, Slotta J, Sarvasy HS.
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The evolution of the Mawes Aas’e (Omotic-Mao) pronouns: evidence for Omotic Lineage
Journal of African Languages and LinguisticsAbstract Omotic-Mao pronouns have been deeply problematic for reconstruction, leading some scholars to suggest the forms are the result of borrowing or interference. This paper explores new evidence from the participant-reference systems in the four Mao languages (Mawes Aas’e, Ganza, Seezo, and Hoozo) to show that the Mawes Aas’e ...
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Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 López S +12 more
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Linguistic Discovery, 2015 This survey endeavours through field research along with a critical review of relevant literature to shed some light on the complicated socio-linguistic and language-geographic situation in the Begi–Tongo area in Western Ethiopia, and to suggest a more ...
Klaus-Christian Küspert
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Bilingual Word-Level Language Identification for Omotic Languages
Language identification is the task of determining the languages for a given text. In many real world scenarios, text may contain more than one language, particularly in multilingual communities. Bilingual Language Identification (BLID) is the task of identifying and distinguishing between two languages in a given text.
Yigezu, Mesay Gemeda +5 more
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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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Categorial hybrids in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2012 forthcoming in: Journal of African Languages and LinguisticsThe paper discusses three categorial hybrids in the East Cushitic language Kambaata, viz. negative participles, agent adjectives and verbal nouns, all of which are shown to combine properties of
Treis, Yvonne
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