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, 2019 This talk examines the various functions of the morphemes called 'impersonal' in the South Cushitic languages of Tanzania. Drawing on a rich body of natural language data, first for Iraqw, and then for Burunge, it is shown that impersonal morphemes are involved in a range of grammatical constructions, some of which (but not all) approximate what has ...
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Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]
, 2015 The new monograph on Egyptian historical grammar by J. P. Allen appeared merely some two decades after A. Loprieno’s (1995) book with similar scope and aims.
Takács, Gábor
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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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
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Language policy in Ethiopia in the 20th century
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2001 The languages spoken in Ethiopia belong to four linguistic families: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan, and the speakers of each of these families found themselves within the borders of this state at various times in history and for various ...
Ewa Wołk
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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]
, 2015 My series „Some Berber Etymologies” is to gradually reveal the still unknown immense Afro-Asiatic heritage in the Berber lexical stock. The first part with some miscellaneous Berber etymologies was published back in 1996. Recently, I continued the series
Takács, Gábor
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Cycles of negation in Rangi and Mbugwe [PDF]
, 2015 The Tanzanian Bantu languages Rangi and Mbugwe both employ a double negation marking strategy. In Rangi, verbal negation is achieved through the presence of a pre-verbal negative marker and a negative marker which appears either post-verbally or in a ...
Gibson, Hannah, Wilhelmsen, Vera
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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]
, 2015 The paper re-examines the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of the anatomical terminology of Ancient Egyptian in the context of many new results issuing from current progress in Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) comparative ...
Takács, Gábor
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The Zagwē dynasty. A study in historical possibilities
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1988 After the collapse of Aksum, the centre of the empire twice moved further south. On the first occasion, according to tradition at the end of the 10th century, it was established in the Lasta region on the border between the present-day provinces of ...
Ewa Woźniakowska
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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
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