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Die Henne oder das Ei? azzo oder -zo? Weitere Spekulationen zu einem pronominalen Problem des Harari [PDF]
There is no consensus among Ethiopists on the question of whether the Harari enclitic possessive suffix 3sg. m. -zo is an eroded form of the personal pronoun azzo (Appleyard, Huehnergard and Pat-El) or whether azzo emerged from -zo by being prefixed with
Wagner, Ewald
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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster [PDF]
, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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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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Maria S. Bulakh, Leonid E. Kogan, and Olga I. Romanova, eds, Jazyki mira. Semitskie jazyki. Efiosemitskie jazyki [PDF]
, 2018 Revie
Frantsouzoff, Serge
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Copula and focus constructions in selected Ethiopian languages [PDF]
, 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]
, 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]
, 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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Ordinal numerals as a criterion for subclassification: the case of semitic [PDF]
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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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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