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What’s in a Bantu verb? Actionality in Bantu languages [PDF]
Linguistic Typology, 2019 AbstractThe lexical and phrasal dimensions of aspect and their interactions with morphosyntactic aspectual operators have proved difficult to model in Bantu languages. Bantu actional types do not map neatly onto commonly accepted categorizations of actionality, although these are frequently assumed to be universal and based on real-world event ...
Bastian Persohn, Thera Marie Crane
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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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Unusual Colonic Iron Deposition Following Prophylactic Supplementation in an Infant: A Case Report. [PDF]
Clin Case RepABSTRACT Iron plays a vital role in physiological functions, and its deposition is typically limited to reticuloendothelial tissues in the presence of excess levels. We report a rare case of colonic iron deposition in a 13‐month‐old child without iron overload or toxicity. Despite a normal serum iron profile and administration of only prophylactic iron
Imanzadeh F +4 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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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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