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Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)

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In Hausa language function words contribute to sentence structure mainly on the syntactic level. They can specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. The broad class of function words includes a sub-class of items known as Pragmatic Markers (PMs).
Patryk Zając
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Grammaticalization as gradual process in Hausa reduplication

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
Hausa is a Chadic language of Afroasiatic family that extensively uses reduplication for grammatical and lexical formatives. Reduplication as a universal phenomenon is viewed in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives and it has been studied on a ...
Hafizu Miƙo Yakasai
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Shaping the word structure by iambic foot in Migama

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2012
The following paper analyzes the role of metrical structure in shaping the East Chadic B language, Migama. Specifically, it will be argued that, similarly to Hausa, while having no overt influence on the language's tone distribution, iambic foot serves ...
Bartosz Kurzyca
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Genetic history of Chad. [PDF]

Am J Phys Anthropol, 2018
Shriner D, Rotimi CN.
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Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution? [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci, 2021
Neureiter N, Ranacher P, van Gijn R, Bickel B, Weibel R.   +4 more
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Reviews

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1997
Reviews of: Roman Loimeier, Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria (Series in Islam and Society in Africa), Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997, 415 pp.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz, Nina Pawlak
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Impact of patrilocality on contrasting patterns of paternal and maternal heritage in Central-West Africa. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nguidi M, Gomes V, Vullo C, Rodrigues P, Rotondo M, Longaray M, Catelli L, Martínez B, Campos A, Carvalho E, Orovboni VO, Keshinro SO, Simão F, Gusmão L.   +13 more
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Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Lankheet I, Chowdhury A, Tellgren-Roth C, Jolly C, Soares AER, de Navascués M, Pacchiarotti S, Maselli L, Kouarata G, Donzo JP, Coetzee V, de Castro M, Ebbesen P, Priehodová E, Podgorná E, Černý V, Green ST, Harena P, Bakrobena L, Fomine FLM, Tolesa ZG, Mengesha WA, de Jongh M, Soodyall H, Bostoen K, Barbieri C, Larena M, Malmström H, Schlebusch CM.   +28 more
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The traumatic consequences of Boko Haram slavery among the ethnic minorities of southern Borno, Borno State, Nigeria. [PDF]

Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med, 2022
Ziradzo S, Netangaheni RT.
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The Small and Efficient Language Network of Polyglots and Hyper-polyglots. [PDF]

Cereb Cortex, 2021
Jouravlev O, Mineroff Z, Blank IA, Fedorenko E.   +3 more
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