Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Feleke, Tekabe Legesse"

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    • Determinants of language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia 

      Feleke, Tekabe Legesse (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-27)
      This study aims to examine linguistic and non-linguistic determinants that contribute to language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia. The linguistic and non-linguistic determinants were investigated by combining methods of dialectometry and mutual intelligibility. Principally, the study was interested in the potential influences of three linguistic factors (mutual intelligibility, contact-induced ...

    • Ethiosemitic languages: Classifications and classification determinants 

      Feleke, Tekabe Legesse (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-20)
      The present study addresses three concerns: (1) presents the areal classification of Ethiosemitic languages; (2) identifies major determinants of the distance among the languages; (3) challenges previous genealogical classifications of Ethiosemitic languages. To address these objectives, cluster analyses were performed on randomly selected 147 word lists. Multidimensional scaling was employed for ...

    • Gender variation across the oromo dialects: a corpus-based study* 

      Feleke, Tekabe Legesse; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-18)
      This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system. The data obtained from the Oromo Speech Corpus shows a high degree of lexical and ...