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STAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and multiverb predicates in the Chadic languages
Afrika und ÜberseeSTAMP morphs, prefix conjugations and the multiverb predicate subtype called auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) that these derive from in the Chadic languages are discussed. Chadic languages are typically SVO (or VSO) and typically AUX V syntactically.
Gregory D. S. Anderson
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Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Chad Basin, lying within the bidirectional corridor of African Sahel, is one of the most populated places in Sub-Saharan Africa today. The origin of its settlement appears connected with Holocene climatic ameliorations (aquatic resources) that
Mulligan Connie J +5 more
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Nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic
Afrika und Übersee, 2021 This paper contrasts the strategies for marking nominal and verbal plurality in the Mandara and Ɓata subgroups of Central Chadic, and offers some thoughts on their possible origin and development.
Matthew Harley
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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 ...
Russell G. Schuh
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Palatalization and labialization in the Chadic languages of Chad
Afrika und ÜberseeThis paper examines verb data from five Chadic languages of Chad, in order to show the extent to which the prosodies of labialization (LAB) and palatalization (PAL) are relevant to the synchronic analysis of their phonologies.
James Roberts
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages
Universal Journal of Educational ResearchPhonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan +1 more
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Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic [PDF]
, 2023 Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects ...
H. Wolff
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Did Proto-Chadic have velar nasals and prenasalised obstruents?
Afrika und Übersee, 2022 Ever since the Afroasiatic affiliation of Chadic as a whole was suggested by Joseph H. Greenberg in his seminal re-classification of African languages since the 1950s and has been generally accepted, i.e.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Paul Newman
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Afrika und Übersee, 2020 Contact between the Tarokoid languages of Sur, Yangkam, Pe, Vaghat Cluster, Tarok and some Chadic languages found in southeast Plateau State of central Nigeria and its implications for the sketching of a history for the area is the main thesis of this ...
Selbut Longtau
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