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Overt Existential Closure in Bura (Central Chadic) [PDF]
, 2007 No abstract.
Zimmermann, Malte
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Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic) [PDF]
, 2006 The paper presents an in-depth study of focus marking in Gùrùntùm, a West Ch adic language spoken in Bauchi Province of Northern Nigeria. Focus in Gùrùntùm is marked morphologically by means of a focus marker a, which typically precedes the focus ...
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper I revisit and elaborate some of the ideas I outlined in the earlier paper, concentrating on the semantic characteristics of the paired Perfective tense-aspects in a major (universal) discourse context—spontaneously-produced past-time ...
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad Basin [PDF]
, 2006 In the inundation area - the basin of the former larger Lake Chad - a special type of sorghum is grown on the clay soils (firgi). This dry-season guinea corn is also called dwarf sorghum or masakwa. In Kanuri, the dominant language in the region, sorghum
Kirscht, Holger +4 more
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, 2011 A short presentation of Chadic languages for the dictionary 'Les langues du Monde'.Brève présentation des langues tchadiques pour le dictionnaire 'Les langues du ...
Caron, Bernard
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Number in South-Bauchi West languages (Chadic, Nigeria) [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceSouth-Bauchi West (SBW) languages build a dialect continuum spoken in Northern Nigeria that has been classified as West-Chadic B.
Caron, Bernard
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Kanuri and its neighbors: When Saharan and Chadic languages meet
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Norbert Cyffer
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2008 Fr. Andrzej Halemba, Mambwe Folk-Tales (Mambwe Version), Warszawa, Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna “Adam”, 2005, 303 pp; Mambwe Folk-Tales (English Version), Warsaw, Oficyna Wydawniczo-Poligraficzna “Adam”, 2005, 351 pp. (Stanislaw Pilaszewicz), p. 75.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz +3 more
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Tone Sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi
Studies in African Linguistics, 1993 Within the theoretical framework of nonlinear phonology, this paper proposes an account of tone sandhi and vowel deletion in Margi, a Chadic language spoken in Northern Nigeria. The database is Hoffman's Grammar of the Margi Language.
Bernard Tranel
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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]
, 2015 The paper re-examines the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of the anatomical terminology of Ancient Egyptian in the context of many new results issuing from current progress in Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) comparative ...
Takács, Gábor
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