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Proto-Chadic reconstruction and Afroasiatic vowel system typology
Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2022The reconstruction of the Proto-Chadic (PC) vowel system has hitherto been considered impossible. Proposals covered one (*a), two (*a, *ə), three (*a, *i, *u) and four (*a, *ə, *i, *u) vowels.
H. E. Wolff
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The grammaticalization of term focus structures in Chadic languages: A case of microvariation
Faits de langues, 2021This paper argues that the Chadic languages Bura, South Marghi, Hausa, and Guruntum show different stages of the assumed grammaticalization path from bi-clausal cleft structures to mono-clausal constructions for the expression of term focus.
Katharina Hartmann
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Verbal Number in Chadic, with Special Reference to Hausa
The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number, 2021The chapter provides a general overview of the formal marking of pluractionality in Chadic languages and its observable interpretive effects, with a special focus of Hausa. Section 29.2 introduces the three major strategies for marking pluractionality in
M. Zimmermann
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Comparing phasal aspect in some West Chadic and West Benue Congo languages
Afrika und ÜberseeWe undertake an initial crosslinguistic comparison of formal coding linked to the functions of phasal aspect in selected languages from West Chadic and West Benue Congo.
Ronald P. Schaefer, F. Egbokhare
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THE SINGULATIVE MARKER n- IN CHADIC LANGUAGES: A RECONSTRUCTION
Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2020The Afro-asiatic macro family includes Chadic, Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic, and Berber languages. The Chadic branch consists of about 170 languages spoken in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
O. Stolbova
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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 ...
B. Hellwig
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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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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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