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
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Mind in Africa, Body in Europe: The Struggle for Maintaining and Transforming Cultural Identity - A Note from the Experience of Eritrean Immigrants in Stockholm [PDF]
, 2004 This paper describes how individuals and groups who had crossed physical, national boundaries', and who live in a different social context make sense of their lives make sense of their lives by re-constructing their identities - of the sense of who they ...
Hamde, Kiflemariam
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Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Language Shift and a Contact-Induced Explanation to What Looks Like an Internally Motivated Sound Change [PDF]
, 2015 As discussed by Thomason & Kaufman (1988: 111), there has long been a bias among historical linguists against explanations based on shift-induced interference and that this is partly due to a methodological problem that arises in shift situations ...
Tse, Holman
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Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon VI: Numerals [PDF]
, 2015 The first part of my series „Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon” re-examined the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of certain items of the Ancient Egyptian anatomical terminology in the context of many new results ...
Takács, Gábor
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThis chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e.
Malibert, Il-Il, Vanhove, Martine
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Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa [PDF]
, 2008 The introduction of the Roman script since the turn of the 20th century was the first attempt of mass alphabetization in Africa, and it has become the most important writing system. It was, however, not the first script on the continent. In Old Egypt and
Pasch, Helma
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Mood and Modality in Beja [PDF]
, 2013 version avant révisionTwo intriguing, and crosslinguistically unfrequent, formal means for the expression of modality are discussed in this paper: (i) the cliticization of a nominal copula to finite verb forms, and (ii) the cliticization of a special set
Vanhove, Martine
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Some Berber Etymologies XII [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.
Takács, Gábor
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Towards a semantic map of the Optative in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2011 The verbal system of Beja, the sole North-Cushitic language, possesses several indicative and modal verb paradigms whose precise semantic values and syntactic uses are still ill-known.
Vanhove, Martine
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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns.
Treis, Yvonne
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