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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Copula and focus constructions in selected Ethiopian languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The major aim of this work is to give an overview of present tense copula constructions in selected Semitic and Cushitic languages spoken in Ethiopia.
Crass, Joachim   +3 more
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Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics: complex predicates, finiteness and interrogativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia. The first section of the volume consists of
Amha, Azeb, Meyer, Ronny, Treis, Yvonne
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Ethnicity, Belonging and Identity among the Eastern Gurage of Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, I will analyse a case of ethnic transformation in post-1991 Ethiopia based on an ethnographic study of the Eastern Gurage. The case represents an ethnic setting where the conventional conceptualization of ethnicity in terms of a notion of ...
Woldeselassie, Zerihun A
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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Ordinal numerals as a criterion for subclassification: the case of semitic [PDF]

open access: yes
This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they ...
Suchard, B.D.
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‘Travellers in Faith’ or ‘Stealthy Legions’: The Gurāgē role in the rise of Tablīghī Jamā‘at in Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This ethnographic research deals with Tablīghī Jamā‘at, one of a Sunni Islamic missionary movements that focuses on faith renewal. The movement originated in India in the 1920s and came to Ethiopia in the 1960s, it operated in a similar manner to its ...
Mohammed, W., Mohammed, W.
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