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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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Sexually dimorphic traits are associated with subsistence strategy in African faces from the Sahel/Savannah belt

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, Šimon Pokorný, Viktor Černý   +2 more
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H. Ekkehard Wolff, A historical phonology of Central Chadic: Prosodies and lexical reconstruction [PDF]

, 2023
Chadic is a highly diverse family of nearly 200 languages spoken in West Central Africa, with a distribution centred on Lake Chad. It constitutes a primary branch of Afroasiatic, along with Semitic (e.g.
Souag, Lameen, Lameen Souag
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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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Vowel Harmony in Chadic Languages [PDF]

This chapter focuses on Chadic languages, which typically demonstrate feature spreading within a word. The result can be partial or total agreement between the vowels of a word, as well as palatalization or labialization of consonants across the word. In
Pearce, Mary, Lovestrand, Joseph
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Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics, Third Edition [PDF]

, 2015
The Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics is an updated, expanded, and corrected edition of the print book published some twenty years ago by Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Newman 1996).
Newman, Paul
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Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics, Fourth Edition [PDF]

, 2018
The Comprehensive Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics, 4th edition, includes works written on Chadic and Hausa languages and linguistics dating from 1790 to the present.
Newman, Paul
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Chadic Wordlists

, 2019
<p>Cite the source dataset as</p> <blockquote> <p>Kraft, Charles H. 1981.
Tiago Tresoldi, Johann-Mattis List
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Kilba equational sentences

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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Chadic classification and reconstructions [PDF]

, 1977
This paper contains a comprehensive classification of the Chadic family and new reconstructions of Proto-Chadic phonology and lexicon. The classification shows the position of all known Chadic languages from the level of sub-group to major branch.
Newman, Paul
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