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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Historical implications of a linguistic environment - towards a systemic approach [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of our project B6 “Towards a genesis of the ethnolinguistic situation at the southern and western fringes of lake Chad basin” within SFB 268 “West African Savannah” is to analyse the emergence and development of the complex presentday ...
Ibriszimow, Dymitr +5 more
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