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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]
, 2015 Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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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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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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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
, 2019 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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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2006 Muitos fatores são responsáveis pela diversidade de sintomas nos pacientes de anemia falciforme, entre eles: sexo, idade, haplótipos e nível de hemoglobina fetal.
Paulo J. M. S. Costa +3 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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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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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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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu) [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, oyo, wand, and yango in the Bantu language Lingala.
Meeuwis, Michael, Stroeken, Koenraad
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Quaternary Environments and HumansIn this article, Jan Vansina’s essay on the deep-time population history of the Kwilu-Kasai region, now more than half a century old, is revisited through the kaleidoscopic lens of newly collected linguistic, archaeological, palaeoecological and genetic ...
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