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STAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and multiverb predicates in the Chadic languages
Afrika und ÜberseeSTAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and the multiverb predicate subtype called auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) that these derive from in the Chadic languages are discussed. Chadic languages are typically SVO (or VSO) and typically AUX V syntactically.
Gregory D. S. Anderson
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The subject and non-subject agreements in the Yemsa relative clauses [PDF]
Training, Language and CultureThis study aims to elucidate the subject and non-subject agreement mechanisms within Yemsa relative clauses, an area not comprehensively covered by existing research. By analysing these agreement forms, the study seeks to bridge the identified gap in the
Mitike Asrat
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Characterization of CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations
Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 115, Issue 3, Page 576-594, March 2024.Genetic variation in CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 is known to impact interindividual response to antiretrovirals, nicotine, and bupropion, among other drugs. However, the full catalogue of clinically relevant pharmacogenetic variants in these genes is yet to be established, especially across African populations. This study therefore aimed to characterize the star
David Twesigomwe +13 more
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History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 45-70, March 2024.ABSTRACT This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.
Christopher Stedman Parmenter
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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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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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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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Possible Khoe contact with Afroasiatic languages: systematic click-sibilant correspondences
, 2021 Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Schwab, Andre. 2021. Possible Khoe contact with Afroasiatic languages. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 06/10/2021.
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The shaping of character: The classics as a remedy for cultural despair in Victorian England
Critical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 4-17, July 2024.
Stephen Gaukroger
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Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains: three cases in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010 The purpose of this article is to describe the grammaticalization of selected functions in Chadic languages[1], functions that have seldom been observed in other languages and that have been largely ignored by literature making theoretical claims but ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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