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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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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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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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Encoding present situations in Mandarin Chinese and isiXhosa: A comparative study
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This study sought to investigate how two typologically distinct languages, Mandarin and isiXhosa, deal with the encoding of temporal relations by focusing on a specific time frame – the present. The study revealed that both Mandarin and isiXhosa do not
Ma, Xiujie, Simango, Silvester Ron
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Prehistoric Bantu-Khoisan language contact [PDF]
, 2017 International ...
Bostoen, Koen +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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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 2: Lemmatisation and Rulers for Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency list directly within a ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver +1 more
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Inheritance and Contact in the Development of Lateral Obstruents in Nguni Languages (S40)
LanguagesThis study investigates the development of the lateral fricatives and affricates, to which we jointly refer as ‘lateral obstruents’, in Nguni (S40) languages of Southern Africa.
Nina van der Vlugt, Hilde Gunnink
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 3: Mapping Meaning onto Use in Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the third instalment in a trilogy of studies that deal with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography as applied to Lusoga. Having dealt with corpus-building in Part 1, and macrostructural aspects in Part 2, we now focus on the microstructure of a
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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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