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Vocabulary of water in Chadic

, 1997
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The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, 2020
AbstractThe Chadic family is best known by Hausa and its 45 million speakers, while the other 170 or so languages count between 500,000 and a few thousand. Given their common genetic origin, what does it mean to be a Chadic language, not only in terms of retentions and innovations from their common Afro-Asiatic origin, but also from a typological point
B. Caron
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Noun Phrase Constructions in Musgum (Chadic Language)

International Journal online of Humanities
This paper tackles the Noun Phrase constructions in Musgum, a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon and Chad. It is particular to the generative grammar developed since the fifties by Chomsky. We question the structure of the Noun Phrase.
Brahim Adam
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A diachronic perspective on ‘prosodies’ in Central Chadic languages (Afroasiatic)

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
The paper reports on generalisations drawn from the author’s historical analysis of a sample of some five thousand words, which reflect more than two hundred lexical items from up to sixty-six Central Chadic languages and language varieties.
H. Wolff
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AKKADIAN-CHADIC COGNATES

Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2022
O. Stolbova
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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
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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.
S. MacEachern
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Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Locative predications in Chadic languages: Implications for semantic analysis [PDF]

Linguistique et Langues Africaines
Joseph Lovestrand
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Historical sound changes in Central Chadic (Afroasiatic)

Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2023
In its entirety as much as with regard to its four branches, the Chadic language family poses challenges to the application of the Neogrammarian-school comparative method, not the least because of the immense time-depth involved and aggravated by ...
H. Wolff
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A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic

, 2022
Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language contact.
H. Wolff, Lameen Souag
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