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The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, 2023 The Bantu expansion is the initial spread of the Bantu languages and the people speaking them from their original homeland in the border zone of modern‐day Nigeria and Cameroon over major parts of eastern and central Africa. This entry reviews the key evidence from historical linguistics, evolutionary genetics, and archaeology for this major demic ...
McIntosh, Roderick J.editor +4 more
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Prosodic marking of focus and givenness in Kinyarwanda and Rwandan English
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 This paper concentrates on whether systematic variations in pitch, intensity, and duration can be observed as a function of the focused or discourse-given status of a constituent in Kinyarwanda (Guthrie code JD.61), and a relatively recent variety of ...
Hamlaoui, Fatima +2 more
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A Discourse Analysis of Three Past TAM Forms in Vwanji
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper presents data from Vwanji, an under-documented Bantu language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in southwestern Tanzania. Bantu languages are well known for having multiple degrees of past time reference grammaticalized in their TAM ...
Helen Eaton
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Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2022 In this article we offer an overview of the use of modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu (encompassing languages spoken from eastern Congo in the north-west to northern Mozambique in the south-east; viz.
Rasmus Bernander +2 more
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Cladistics, 2018 AbstractPhylogenetic methods offer a promising advance for the historical study of language and cultural relationships. Applications to date, however, have been hampered by traditional approaches dependent on unfalsifiable authority statements: in this regard, historical linguistics remains in a similar position to evolutionary biology prior to the ...
Peter M. Whiteley +2 more
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Chromatographic Residue Analysis of Profenofos and Carbosulfan in Indian Major Carp, Labeo rohita (Hamilton) [PDF]
Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, 2020 Fish live in the aquatic column; they are facing challenge for surviving from pollutants, particularly from various chemical fertilizers and pesticides used in or adjacent paddy fields or flood lands.
Nagaraju Bantu
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The Argument-Adjunct Scale: Applied Nominal and Locative Phrases in Xhosa
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 This paper examines the categorial status of applied elements in Xhosa with respect to their argumenthood or adjuncthood. By analyzing the response of nominal and locative applied elements to various criteria and diagnostics and by adopting the ...
Alexander Andrason
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2006 Muitos fatores são responsáveis pela diversidade de sintomas nos pacientes de anemia falciforme, entre eles: sexo, idade, haplótipos e nível de hemoglobina fetal.
Paulo J. M. S. Costa +3 more
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KwanissaA referida proposta do artigo aborda uma análise reflexiva do projeto “Transversalidades Atlânticas: Saberes ancestrais africanos como tecnologias de emancipação”, tendo como referência a atlanticidade, que são saberes milenares primais detidos em uma ...
Paulo César Fernandes, Jhonny Mattos
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Bantu Lexical Reconstruction [PDF]
, 2016 Abstract Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bostoen, Koen, Bastin, Yvonne
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