South-Bauchi West Pronominal and TAM Systems [PDF]
, 2006 This study of the SBW pronominal and TAM system is based on personal data collected in Nigeria on 8 languages : Zaranda, Langas, Dir, Danche, Baraza, Dott, Sigidi and Zaar.
Caron, Bernard
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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Fauna in Beja Lexicon’
Folia OrientaliaThe contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with zoological terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Transfixation in Hausa: a hypothetical analysis
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2011 The paper deals with the non-contiguous morphs in Hausa which are regarded as the manifestation of transfixation. Transfixation is an Afroasiatic feature that is apparent in Arabic.
Bello S. Y. Al-Hassan
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Words without vowels : phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber [PDF]
, 2013 This article deals with the Tashlhiyt dialect of Berber (henceforth TB) spoken in the southern part of Morocco. In TB, words may consist entirely of consonants without vowels and sometimes of only voiceless obstruents, e.g. tft#tstt "you rolled it (fem)".
Ridouane, Rachid
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The one replaced by a crow An Amazigh tale from Eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit/English)
Journal of African Languages and LiteraturesThis tale was recorded in December 2022 in Melbou (Aït Segoual confederation, Aït Bouhafan fraction, Eastern Kabylia, Algeria) by Youdas N’ Saâdi Lbuhfani from his mother Tabaâmrant.
Massinissa Garaoun
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Counting, Measuring And The Semantics Of Classifiers
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 This paper makes two central claims. The first is that there is an intimate and non-trivial relation between the mass/count distinction on the one hand and the measure/individuation distinction on the other: a (if not the) defining property of mass nouns
Susan Rothstein
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Impact of natural selection on global patterns of genetic variation and association with clinical phenotypes at genes involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Zhang C +28 more
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Redeployment in language contact: the case of phonological emphasis
Frontiers in Language SciencesThis article applies the notion of redeployment in second language acquisition to contact-induced diachronic changes. Of special interest are cases where a marked phonological contrast has spread across neighboring languages.
Darin Flynn
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On the analysis of non-selected datives in Maltese [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides a descriptive overview of extra-argumental or non-selected datives in Maltese, poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe building on existing LFG work and in particular on Kibort (2008)?
Camilleri, M, Sadler, L
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The Structure and Function of Yemsa Adverbial Clauses: Empirical Study
Дискурс профессиональной коммуникацииYemsa, an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia, has received limited attention in linguistic research, particularly with regard to its adverbial clauses. The lack of a comprehensive description of Yemsa’s adverbial clauses hinders our understanding of the ...
M. Asrat, G. Mengistu, E. Assefa
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