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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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