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Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.11.1

Qinghua Ma, Xinxin Wang

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Comparative Analysis of Amharic and Afaan Oromoo Proverbs: A meta-communication perspective 阿姆哈拉语和阿法恩-奥罗莫语谚语的比较分析：元传播视角

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.11.4

A. L. Saka, E. Garoma

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Pronoun Anaphor and Cataphor in Chinese 汉语代词回指和后指

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.11.2

Zhiyi Zhang

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Study on the Time-point Expressions in Hezhe Language 赫哲语时间点表达研究

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.11.7

Yaheng Cheng

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Acoustic Analysis of EkeGusii Vowel System 鄂克古斯语元音系统的声学分析

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.26478/ja2019.7.11.5

P. Otieno, E. G. Mecha

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Noun Phrase in Mesqan Mesqan的名词短语

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.10.6

Ousman Shafi

{"title":"Noun Phrase in Mesqan","authors":"Ousman Shafi","doi":"10.26478/JA2019.7.10.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26478/JA2019.7.10.6","url":null,"abstract":"Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tonguewhich is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of on 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone, Ethiopia, whose linguistic skin were not well expressed. The inner aspire of this paper is to offer a complete account of noun phrase structures of the Mesqan tongue. The paper is expressive in character, as the lessons is mostly worried with telling what is really being in the tongue, and mostly relies on main linguistic facts. The linguistic facts, i.e. the elicited grammatical facts regarding noun phrases, was composed from local speakers of the tongue during 12 months of fieldwork mannered among 2011 and 2012 in four Mesqan villages and in Butajira, the managerial hub of the Mesqan Woreda. The head of a NP can be a pronoun, a noun or an adjective. The head alone can constitute a full noun phrase. Adjectives, nouns in the genitive, or relative clauses function as modifiers of head nouns. Quantifiers are numerals, unspecific quantifiers, determiners include the definite marker, demonstrative pronouns, and possessive suffixes occur in two positions to the head noun. Only the demonstrative pronouns and the number ‘one’ when used as indefinite marker occur in phrase-initial position, while all other determiners follow the head.","PeriodicalId":31949,"journal":{"name":"Macrolinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44096318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dynamics of Language and Culture as a Paradigm for Interrogating Igbo Identity 语言与文化的动态性——伊博人身份质疑的范式

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.10.8

C. U. Agbedo

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Major Morphophonemic Operations in Ezha (Ethio-Semitic) 埃扎族(埃塞俄比亚-闪米特语)的主要词音操作

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.10.2

Endalew Assefa

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Causative Constructions in Afaan Oromoo: Formal and semantic perspectives Afaan Oromoo中的因果结构：形式和语义视角

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.10.5

E. Garoma, G. Tekle

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Reasoning on the Origin of the Human Language 论人类语言的起源

Macrolinguistics Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.26478/JA2019.7.10.1

V. Stetsyuk, Ukraine An Independent Researcher

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