Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata

Treis, Yvonne

doi:10.1075/slcs.151.05tre

In:Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania
Edited by Anne Storch and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
[Studies in Language Companion Series 151] 2014
► pp. 111–134

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Chapter 5. Number in Kambaata

Yvonne Treis

Published online: 19 March 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.151.05tre

The Cushitic language Kambaata (South Ethiopia) is a head-final and suffixing language with a rich nominal and verbal morphology. Number is marked on nouns and pronouns, and traces of number agreement are found on modifiers and verbs. This chapter concentrates on number marking on common nouns, thereby focusing on the interaction of number marking with lexical semantics. It demonstrates that in this language, number is a category between inflection and derivation.

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