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Data-driven part-of-speech tagging of Kiswahili [PDF]
, 2006 C
De Pauw, G +2 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]
, 2009 Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi +61 more
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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Linguistics, 2022 Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages have extraordinary typological characteristics. Their word order patterns are extremely diverse and some of the attested patterns are crosslinguistically very rare, or even unique.
Van de Velde Mark
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Was Proto-Kikongo a 5 or 7-vowel language? Bantu spirantization and vowel merger in the Kikongo language cluster [PDF]
, 2019 This article addresses whether Proto-Kikongo (PK), the most recent common ancestor of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), should be reconstructed with an inventory of 5 or 7 vowel phonemes.
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Groupcism as an Acceptable Type of Discrimination
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.ABSTRACT Sometimes I am with a group of people but feel socially distant because their activities make me think, ‘I don't belong here!’ However, the distance between me and them is not created by intentional acts of exclusion. It stems from my non‐participation in their chosen activities—the things other members of the in‐group do for fun—for personal ...
Patrick Effiong Ben
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The forgotten structure of Ikalanga relatives
Studies in African Linguistics, 2009 Demuth and Harford (1999) contend that in Bantu relatives, the verb raises from I-C if the relative morpheme is a bound morpheme while the subject remains in spec-IP resulting in subject –verb inversion.
Rose Letsholo
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A typology of northwestern Bantu gender systems
Linguistics, 2022 Northwestern Bantu is the most linguistically diverse area of the Bantu-speaking world. Several unusual grammatical gender systems are reported for this area, but there has been a lack of comprehensive comparative studies.
Di Garbo Francesca, Verkerk Annemarie
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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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