Genetic Diversity of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Merozoite Surface Protein 1 and 2 Genes and Their Allele Association With Malaria Severity, Seasons, and Sex in Bamenda, North West Cameroon. [PDF]
Although the number of yearly occurrences of malaria has significantly decreased in recent years, malaria remains one of the major public health issues in Cameroon. A deeper understanding of how the various alleles of the malaria parasite’s genes move in the field between the two sexes and between seasons, as well as knowledge of malaria parasite ...
Achungu CR +5 more
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Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu
Verum focus has long been analysed as part of information structure, being accounted for within a theory of focus as generation of alternatives on a polarity value.
Kerr Elisabeth J., Van der Wal Jenneke
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages
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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Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]
In this article we examine variation in the expression of tense and aspect (TA) in 23 modern and two historical Bantu language varieties belonging to Guthrie’s B40, H10 and H30 groups in order to shed light on the internal classification of the Kikongo ...
Bostoen, Koen, Dom, Sebastian
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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 ...
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga
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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Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study [PDF]
Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Chromatographic Residue Analysis of Profenofos and Carbosulfan in Indian Major Carp, Labeo rohita (Hamilton) [PDF]
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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On the “Atypical” Imperative Verb Form in Manda
This paper accounts for the atypical Imperative verb form found in Manda, a Bantu language spoken along the shores of Lake Nyasa in southern Tanzania.
Rasmus Bernander
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