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Studies in African Linguistics, 2002 Morphological palatalization is a phenomenon whereby palatal articulation (fronting of vowels, adding palatalization as a secondary articulation to consonants, changing alveolars to alveopalatals) is a property associated with an entire morpheme, not with individual segments.
Russell G. Schuh
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Paul Newman
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Chadic languages and Y haplogroups [PDF]
European Journal of Human Genetics, 2010 The January 2009 publication in this journal of an article entitled ‘Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages', by Cruciani et al,1 represents a major step forward in our understanding of the African Y haplogroup diversity and pre-history ...
Lancaster A.
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The Nilo-Saharan background of Chadic
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Christopher Ehret
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Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic) [PDF]
Lingua, 2009 The paper presents an in-depth study of focus marking in Guruntum, a West Chadic language spoken in Bauchi State in Nigeria. Focus in Guruntum is marked morphologically by means of a focus marker a, which typically precedes the focused constituent.
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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Focus strategies in Chadic – the case of Tangale revisited* [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2007 Abstract. The present article offers a detailed study of focus strategies in some Chadic languages, paying special attention to the focus system of Tangale. It discusses two dimensions of variation with respect to the realization of focus. First, there is a striking variety of focus strategies across the Chadic languages. Second, focus can be realized
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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The negative existential cycle in Chadic
, 2022 Chadic languages, like languages of West and Central Africa more generally, are known to make use of typologically rare negation strategies. Not only do many Chadic languages exhibit bi-partite negation, there is also a tendency for the second of these two verbal negators to occur after the verb, in contrast to a cross-linguistic preference for pre ...
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Verbal Plurality in Chadic: Grammaticalisation Chains and Early Chadic History
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001 Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
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BUY and SELL in Chadic Languages
, 2022 Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. BUY and SELL in Chadic Languages Joseph Lovestrand SOAS University of London Pre-recorded for online presentation at the Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022 (CALL), August 30-31, 2022.
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Associated motion and directionals in Chadic languages
, 2021 Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Associated motion and directionals in Chadic languages Joseph Lovestrand SOAS University of London [This recording was prepared for the WOCAL10 workshop: Associated Motion in African languages; also available on ...
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