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Conditional constructions in Buwal
Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 This study examines the structure of conditional constructions in Buwal and their functions. Conditionals in Buwal can be divided into four major categories according to how they are marked: possible, counterfactual, necessary and concessive.
Melanie Viljoen
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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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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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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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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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Divergence across Bade Varieties ‒ A Case of Naboopposition?
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023 In a dialect survey of Bade (Chadic), Schuh (1981) lists several morphosyntactic, phonological, and lexical innovations differentiating Bade varieties. While certain innovations may be attributed to the influence of Kanuri, e.g., a sound change r > r̃ in
Georg Ziegelmeyer
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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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Lo spazio della ricerca nell'area kushi (Nigeria): lingua, comunità e documentazione [PDF]
Ethnorêma, 2017 There are two questions that fieldwork researchers committed to the documentation and description of a minority language ask themselves before venturing into the depth of their projects: 'Whom am I dealing with?', immediately followed by 'Where am I ...
Gian Claudio Batic
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 Chadic-speakers perform annual festivals of the ancestors, kok nji; cropping kop; harvesting, dyip and hunting kwat, which are usually accompanied by dancing, singing and other numerous rites and rituals.
Umar Danfulani
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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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