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Verum blocking effects in Chadic languages
Lingua, 2013This article analyses the grammatical realization of verum in a number of Chadic languages. It shows that the verum operator cannot be expressed in wh-questions, congruent answers, relative clauses or sentences containing a negated constituent. It is argued that this blocking effect follows from a lexical restriction of the verum operator in Chadic ...
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Verbal number in Goemai (West Chadic)
STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2017Abstract Chadic languages are known for marking verbal number, and Goemai is no exception. When comparing Goemai to other Chadic languages, however, several differences emerge: the inventory is exceptionally large; the verbs come from all lexical fields; and they are used to indicate participant number rather than event number.
Birgit Hellwig
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1986
In Frajzyngier (1981) I attempted to reconstruct vowel-raising and vowellowering rules in Chadic. Vowel-raising rules were found in three branches of Chadic, and they operated under similar conditions, viz., vowels of the stem were raised when there was a high vowel added in the suffix.
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In Frajzyngier (1981) I attempted to reconstruct vowel-raising and vowellowering rules in Chadic. Vowel-raising rules were found in three branches of Chadic, and they operated under similar conditions, viz., vowels of the stem were raised when there was a high vowel added in the suffix.
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2015
The chapter discusses selected types of modality and mood in Chadic languages, the largest and typologically most diverse family within the Afroasiatic phylum. It first describes the formal means deployed in Chadic languages in the coding of modality and mood, and then offers a survey of various types of moods and modalities, where the main criterion ...
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The chapter discusses selected types of modality and mood in Chadic languages, the largest and typologically most diverse family within the Afroasiatic phylum. It first describes the formal means deployed in Chadic languages in the coding of modality and mood, and then offers a survey of various types of moods and modalities, where the main criterion ...
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2022
Chadic is above all a linguistic category. It includes a number of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family and located almost exclusively in the Chad basin in North central Africa. Chadic languages are distributed in in three regional clusters, each divided in to part: Western Chadic with northwest and southeast sub-clusters, Central ...
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Chadic is above all a linguistic category. It includes a number of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family and located almost exclusively in the Chad basin in North central Africa. Chadic languages are distributed in in three regional clusters, each divided in to part: Western Chadic with northwest and southeast sub-clusters, Central ...
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Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages
2018The distribution of Chadic languages in Africa is extremely diverse, including the widely dispersed Hausa language, the more restricted Central Chadic languages in the southern Lake Chad Basin, and the poorly understood Eastern Chadic languages in Chad.
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Language Contact in the West Chadic Language Goemai
2020Goemai is a West Chadic language of Northern Nigeria, which is at the heart of the Jos Plateau Sprachbund. This chapter explains the ways in which it has been influenced by other languages, especially Niger-Congo languages, but also Hausa and English. This expansion has been especially important in terms of lexicon, although the importance of metatypy ...
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Some rules concerning vowels in Chadic
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1981The purpose of this paper is to show that one of the characteristics of the Chadic languages is the existence of two types of phonological rules affecting vowels. One type of rule operates on the vowels of the stem when a suffix is added and another type of rule operates on the vowel of the suffix itself.
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The syntax of postverbal focus constructions in Chadic
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1992This study examines the syntax of “special position” focus constructions in a number of Chadic languages. Unlike such constructions in previously studied languages (e.g. Hungarian, Aghem, Basque, Italian), the designated focus position is not found exclusively next to V. In many Chadic postverbal focus languages, the direct object obligatory intervenes.
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