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There Is More Than Meets the Eye: The Dual Role of Perception in Shaping Color Lexicons
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Color's ultimate physical reality is continuous, and yet human beings “cut” this continuum into a rather small number of categories reflected in their languages’ color lexicon. There are striking cross‐linguistic differences in the color lexicon, which are primarily attributed to differences in communicative needs, but also striking ...
Mathilde Josserand +3 more
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 1: Organic Corpus Building for Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two instalments will deal with the ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation
American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 78, Issue 1-2, Page 57-78, September 2026.Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
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Lexikos, 2015 In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 490-498, September 2026.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Reconstructable main clause functions of Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *-ɪd
, 2022 This chapter presents evidence in favour of reconstructing at least three main clause-level functions of the Proto-Bantu (PB) applicative *-ɪd: (i) the introduction of a semantic role which cannot be expressed otherwise with an underived verb root; (ii ...
de Schryver, Gilles-MauriceeditorLW21LW220019891140298010014649590000-0001-7272-9878F6071184-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4 +4 more
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 395-414, September 2026.This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
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Satisfying minimality in Ndebele [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, I discuss four different verb forms in Ndebele (a Nguni Bantu language spoken mainly in Zimbabwe) - the imperative, reduplicated, future and participial.
Downing, Laura J.
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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 812-828, September 2026.ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu +3 more
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