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Yeyi: A Phylogenetic Loner in Eastern Bantu
LanguagesWhile major advances in the subclassification of Bantu languages have been made thanks to comprehensive, lexicon-based classifications, there are still several important uncertainties obscuring not only the diachronic linguistic processes that gave rise ...
Hilde Gunnink +2 more
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Flore Bollaert +2 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well ...
Sifra Van Acker +3 more
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Constituency, Imbrication, and the Interpretation of Change-of-State Verbs in isiNdebele
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper describes the interplay of lexical and grammatical aspect with other grammatical phenomena in the interpretation of the aspectual suffix ‑ile (which we analyse as Perfective) in isiNdebele, a Nguni Bantu language spoken in South Africa ...
Thera Crane, Axel Fanego
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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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Pre-nominal DP modifiers and penultimate lengthening in Xitsonga
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 Bantu languages generally have noun-initial DP word order but they typically allow for demonstratives, and in some languages also the quantifier meaning ‘each, every’, to precede the noun.
Lee, Seunghun J., Riedel, Kristina
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga
Linguistics, 2023 Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs
Asiimwe Allen +2 more
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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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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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Resolving verbal reduplication paradoxes in Malawian Tonga
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017 The paper describes three verbal reduplication paradoxes in Malawian Tonga, a southern Bantu language spoken in the northern part of Malawi. The reduplicant (RED) is either total or partial and is either prefixed or suffixed to the base.
Mkochi, Winifred
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