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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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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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Language and migration : the impact of the Jukun on Chadic speaking groups in the Benue-Gongola basin [PDF]
, 2006 Our paper deals with the problems of migration, culture and language in the wider Benue-Gongola basin. Here are mainly concerned the West-Chadic speaking groups Kwami, Kupto, Kushi and Piya as well as the Jukun who speak a language belonging to the Benue-
Dinslage, Sabine, Leger, Rudolf
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Adaptation and delimitation: some thoughts about the Kanurization of the Gamergu [PDF]
, 2006 The area around the Lake Chad is characterized as an example for a region where ethnic changes abundantly took place and still do. For example some Kanuri districts, or the leaders of those districts, are (unofficially) named after other ethnic names (e ...
Cyffer, Norbert +3 more
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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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Focus asymmetries in Bura [PDF]
, 2008 This article presents the central aspects of the focus system of Bura (Chadic), which exhibits a number of asymmetries: Grammatical focus marking is obligatory only with focused subjects, where focus is marked by the particle án following the subject ...
Hartmann, Katharina +2 more
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, 2008 The article puts forward a discourse-pragmatic approach to the notoriously evasive phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. It is argued that occurrences of focus that are treated in terms of "contrastive focus", "kontrast" (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998) or ...
Zimmermann, Malte
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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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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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