A feature-geometric approach to Amharic verb classes

Inflectional Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 206-236

  Trommer, Jochen ^a  

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Author keywords

Amharic; Ethiopian; gemination; paradigms; Semitistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85190000985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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