The present paper focuses on a descriptive method of valency-increasing devices in five South Ethio-Semitic languages(Amharic,Harari,Kɨstane,Məsqan,and Endəgaɲ).The five languages were selected for two reasons.The fir...
The asymmetric behaviour of the mid tone has been reported in the Yoruboid literature and previous accounts of tone behaviour in Iṣẹkírìsuggest that a low tone is always deleted in favour of others at word boundary....
Editorial polcy:Macrolinguistics(ISSN 1934-5755,e-ISSN 2473-6376)is an international acadermic joumal which is specialized in research papers of non-Indo-European linguistics.It aims at contributing to the complementa...
Numeral systems in natural languages show astonishing variety,though with very strong unifying tendencies that are increasing as many indigenous numeral systems disappear through language contact and globalization.Mos...
The purpose of this article is twofold.First,it explores the order of the development of nominal and verbal gender of Amharic,which is one of the Ethio-Semitic languages.Second,it provides empirical evidence for the t...
Researches on cartography have made universal predictions on the hierarchies of functional projections in language.Based on this assumption,the structural maps established by Rizzi(1997,2001b)for the left-peripheral e...
One of the assumptions underlying theories of phonological derivation is that the phonological architecture of any language consists of,at least,an abstract underlying form,its surface form and conditions which derive...
Some questions regarding the analysis of classifiers and classifier constructions are raised in this paper.The classifier,as a mere adjunct adjoining to the head,cannot serve as the head of the noun phrase containing ...
This paper lays out the morphosyntactic structures of existential,locative and possessive constructions in Amharic.Amharic belongs to South Ethio-Semitic language subfamily.It is natively spoken in the Amhara region a...
The intersection between morphology and pragmatics in EkeGusii,a Bantu language spoken in Kenya among the natives of Kisii and Nyamira Counties,is the concern of this paper.Besides the lean evidence of previous resear...