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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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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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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Afrika und Übersee, 2020 The paper looks at personal pronoun systems in languages of the convergence zone on both sides of the borderline between Benue-Congo and Chadic. Focus is on inventories and systems, meaning the overall interrelationship of pronoun shapes across the ...
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract Objectives Previous research revealed that in some African populations, food‐production strategies are associated with facial shape. Nomadic pastoralists living in the African Sahel/Savannah belt have a different facial morphology than their sedentary neighbors. We investigated whether the lifestyle associated with a subsistence pattern has an
Karel Kleisner +2 more
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Indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic: A typological sketch
Studies in African Linguistics, 2013 The aim of the present study is to propose, for the first time, a typology of the forms and functions related to the indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic languages.
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Kilba, a Chadic language of Gongola State, Nigeria, has a number of enclitic particles which one can reasonably argue function as copulas in equational sentences.
Russell G. Schuh
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Notes on Gàlì (Miltu), a Moribund Chadic Language (Republic of Chad)
Folia OrientaliaA short description of Gali, an East Chadic language, based on field notes taken in 1972.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Carsten Peust
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Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa
Studies in African Linguistics, 1990 Internal factors involving phonotactic asymmetries and irregular morphological alternations suggest that final */uu/ in Hausa historically lowered to /oo/ when the preceding syllable contained /aa/, e.g. *kwaacfoo 'frog' < *kwaacfuu.
Paul Newman
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007 Dymitr Ibriszimow (ed.), Topics in Chadic Linguistics II, „Chadic Linguistics/ Linguistique Tchadique/Tschadistik” (edited by D. Ibriszimow, H. Tourneux, H.E. Wollf), Vol. 3, Köln, Rüdiger Koppe Verlag, 2006,154 pp.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz
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