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title = "Clefting and beyond in {T}igrinya",
author = "Kifle, Nazareth Amlesom and
Gasser, Michael",
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Dobrovoljc, Kaja},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on {U}niversal {D}ependencies ({UDW} 2026)",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
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pages = "54--59",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Clefting and beyond in Tigrinya](https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.3/) (Kifle & Gasser, UDW 2026)
ACL
- Nazareth Amlesom Kifle and Michael Gasser. 2026. Clefting and beyond in Tigrinya. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), pages 54–59, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).