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Tone in Lagwan verbs: the conflict between perceptual prominence and lexical contrast

, 2009
Ruff, JN
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Vocabulary of water in Chadic

, 1997
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Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages

, 2018
The 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.
Scott MacEachern
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The subgrouping of East Chadic

Folia Orientalia, 2018
A genetic subgrouping of 16 East Chadic languages is proposed in this paper. Contrary to the popular lexicostatistical approach, and in order to take into account potentially different rates of lexical evolution in the individual languages, it is attempted here to rely on the identification of common innovations.
Peust, Carsten
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Locative Predications in Chadic Languages

Abstract The general aim of the book is to demonstrate that the grammatical systems of individual languages code unique semantic structures. These semantic structures should be the main object of semantic description. The role of semantic structures encoded in grammatical systems is examined within a specific area, namely, how languages ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Frajzyngier Zygmunt   +1 more
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Focus strategies in Chadic – the case of Tangale revisited*

Studia Linguistica, 2007
We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under ...
Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann
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Verbal number in Goemai (West Chadic)

STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 2017
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
Birgit Hellwig
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Logophoric Systems in Chadic

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1985
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Locative predication in Chadic

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2018
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Frajzyngier Zygmunt   +1 more
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