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Negative Indefinite Constructions in Bantu: ‘Nobody’

Languages
This paper presents a first typology of negative indefinites in Bantu languages. The lack of interest in expressions of ‘nobody’ in Bantu languages is connected with the idea that they merely involve a generic noun for ‘person’ and main clause negation ...
Maud Devos, Johan van der Auwera, Rasmus Bernander   +2 more
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Borrowing, Avoidance, and the Development of the Zulu Click Inventory [PDF]

, 2015
The Zulu language of eastern South Africa is remarkable both for being one of the few languages known to have incorporated lingual-ingressive “click” sounds into its phonology through language contact, and for the unusually thorough and comprehensive ...
Hessler, Coleman
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Divergence and contact in Southern Bantu language and population history [PDF]

, 2022
Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou‐Polydouri, Koen Bostoen   +2 more
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Power and Limitations of Inferring Genetic Ancestry

Annals of Human Genetics, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 264-273, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Background The recent emergence of technologies that capture and analyse genetic variation patterns obtained from a person's DNA sample has led to numerous academic and commercial endeavours to infer individuals' ancestries. In theory, a person's genome contains a wealth of readily accessible information regarding their ancestors, despite only
Nancy Bird, Turi King, Garrett Hellenthal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Peoples’ human genomic sovereignty: Lessons for Africa

Developing World Bioethics, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 190-203, September 2025.
Abstract Human genomics research with indigenous peoples has often been characterised by tension between the ‘western’ science ideologies and indigenous peoples’ cultural beliefs in relation to their human genetic resources and data. This article explores this tension from the lens of the concept of indigenous peoples’ human genomic sovereignty and ...
Faith Kabata
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological Parsing of Tone

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005
Morphological parsers are typically developed for languages without contrastive tonal systems. Ha, a typical Bantu language of Western Tanzania, proposes a challenge to these parses with both lexical and grammatical pitch-accent that would, in order to ...
Lotta Harjula
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns and developments in the marking of diminutives in Bantu [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents an overview of diminutives in the Bantu language family, with an emphasis on the role of the noun class system in diminutive formation.
Gibson, H, Guérois, R, Marten, L
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The V and CV augment and exhaustivity in Kinyakyusa

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
In addition to the stem and noun class prefix, the structure of nouns in Bantu languages may contain an augment. This augment typically is a vowel, but some languages show a CV augment.
Jenneke van der Wal, Amani Lusekelo
doaj  

Language Index - Volume 1

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002
Bantu Languages, 7, 33, 34 ...
Renaud Beeckmans
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Lexikos at eighteen: an analysis [PDF]

, 2009
At eighteen, Lexikos became a major player in the field of linguistics, by being awarded an Impact Factor. This article presents a double analysis of the foundation that led to this success. On the one hand a thorough statistical study is undertaken with
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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