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Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains: three cases in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010 The purpose of this article is to describe the grammaticalization of selected functions in Chadic languages[1], functions that have seldom been observed in other languages and that have been largely ignored by literature making theoretical claims but ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Circum-Saharan Prehistory through the Lens of mtDNA Diversity. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2022 Diallo MY +8 more
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Non-verbal sentences in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1992 The non-verbal sentences are sentences in which there is no explicit aspect marking and no verb. The predicate position of such sentences is usually filled by nouns, noun phrases, prepositional phrases or adverbials.
Nina Pawlak
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Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking. [PDF]
Nat Lang Linguist Theory, 2023 Assmann M +3 more
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Development of Hausa dataset a baseline for speech recognition. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2022 Ibrahim UA, Boukar MM, Suleiman MA.
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Perfectivity and time reference in Hausa
Linguistic Discovery, 2008 The relative marking in Hausa marks discourse presupposition in perfective and imperfective relative clauses and out-of-focus clauses of focus and fronted wh-questions.
Mahamane L. Abdoulaye
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An Excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon
Folia OrientaliaThe present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries.
Václav Blažek
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2004 Reviews of: Helena Dubnov, A Grammatical Sketch of Somali, "Grammatical Analyses of African Languages", 20, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2003,104 pp.
Aleksandra Iwańczyk +4 more
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Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges. [PDF]
J Child Lang, 2023 Cristia A +5 more
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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas
Folia OrientaliaThe Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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