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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]
, 2015 During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred ...
Takács, Gábor
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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of ...
Berger, Bonnie +7 more
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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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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Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceKambaata has a morpheme -aan with which agent nominals can be derived from verbs and nouns. The present article discusses, firstly, the morphological and syntactic characteristics of -aan nominals and the specific problem of which ...
Treis, Yvonne
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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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, 2013 The Beja (Beḍawye) language is the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of the Cushitic languages. Although there are several dialects, e.g.
V. Blažek
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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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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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