The Definite Article and Possessive Marking in Amharic DOROTHEE BEERMANN AND BINYAM EPHREM 1 Introduction In this paper we are concerned with the grammar of noun phrases in Am- haric, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. Our theoretical frame is Head-Driven Phrase Structure Gra…

…nd Method Results Discussion and Conclusion References 2 Theoretical Background Possessive structure processing during language production At the level of concepts/intentions, POSS might be a semantic function with two arguments, just like transitive verbs (like WARM) are semanti…

…functions like a case, marking nominals and following the plural, but preceding possessive suffixes, in Evenki and Negidal it behaves more like an enclitic: it can attach to a wide variety of constituents, including converbs and even finite verbs (Bulatova and Grenoble 1999: 50),…

… undergo extensive assimilation , both progressive and regressive. All suffixes possess numerous allomorphs . For suffixes which begin with a consonant, the surface form of the consonant is conditioned on the stem-final segment. There are four such archiphonemic consonants: G , B…

Studies in Ethiopian Languages, 9 (2020), 27−47 研究ノート ベニシャングル・アラビア語の民話テクスト * 仲尾周一郎 (大 阪 大 学 ) [email protected] Abstract Benishangul Arabic is a hit herto less known variet y of Sudanese Arabic spoken by Berta/Funj (Mayu dialect; Nilo-Saharan) speakers in Benishangul-Gumuz Region…

…in different though related domains. Myler (2014) argues that the expression of possession in predication (as in “I have a book”) varies cross-linguistically in such a way that the same meanings are constructed by different syntactic processes in different languages, without bein…

…ed as part of the stress-bearing unit include the affixal clitic, [ a ] marking possession, as in the word tedóng=ku (buffalo= 1 . POSS ) 'my buffalo'. Particularly for the definite marker ≡a , this morpheme is counted as part of the stress-bearing unit only if the base word it a…

…ed as part of the stress-bearing unit include the affixal clitic, [ a ] marking possession, as in the word tedóng=ku (buffalo= 1 . POSS ) 'my buffalo'. Particularly for the definite marker ≡a , this morpheme is counted as part of the stress-bearing unit only if the base word it a…

…) formulae is the standard. To satisfy the modal formula <a>F, a process p must possess some a a{transition, p ?! p , leading to a state, p , satisfying F. Dually, for a process p to a satisfy a modal formula [a]F, for any a{transition, p ?! p , p must satisfy F. The following ex…

… Road assemblage therefore offers a particularly clear insight into the ceramic possessions of an Early Neolithic household, revealing the cultural tradition within which the pottery is situated. INVESTIGATION OF ABSORBED RESIDUES FROM POTTERY Lucy Cramp further mass spectrometri…

Релятивизация под маской номинализации и фактивный аргумент в адыгейском языке Д.В. Герасимов (ИЛИ РАН, С.-Петербург) Ю.А. Ландер (ИВ РАН, Москва) 1. Введение Настоящая работа посвящена одному из классов адыгейских предикатных форм, образуемых при помощи маркера зэрэ-1. Среди дру…

…pronominal clitics and the wh-word ‘what’: the genitive clitics procliticize to possessed noun phrases, while the accusative ones occupy the Wackernagel position in the clause. For the wh-word ‘what’ the accusative form coincides with the nominative one. The inessive differs from…

…, over there, yon Bontok sana that one, close to hearer; there, close to hearer Possession is encoded by the general structure POSSESSOR- punya -POSSESSUM, where the 'possessum' is the 'thing' being possessed by the possessor - the unit preceding punya ). A typical example is sho…

…APRIL Sex: F Race: W Age: 46 CR34-25-05689/37-2732(C)(1) ~ CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE-POSSESSION OF -FEL CR34-25-05689/19-2514 ~ ENHANCEMENT-PERSISTENT VIOLATOR -FEL 2026/04/22 19:55 SPERRY, RYE NICOLE Sex: F Race: U Age: 22 /37-2732(C)(1) ~ CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE-POSSESSION OF -FEL 2026…

Alkoxy-functionalized polythiophenes such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and poly(3,4-propylenedioxythiophene) (PProDOT) have become promising materials for a variety of applications including bioelectronic devices due to their high conductivity, relatively soft mech…