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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022 [PDF]
AethiopicaBibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022.
Magdalena Krzyżanowska +2 more
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023 [PDF]
AethiopicaBibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII ...
Magdalena Krzyżanowska +2 more
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Exploring the relationships between genetic, linguistic and geographic distances in Bantu‐speaking populations [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022 Abstract Objectives The predominance of Bantu languages in sub‐Saharan Africa has sparked a large debate over the processes through which they came to disperse over time and space—the “Bantu expansion.” The overall genetic similarity shown by Bantu‐speaking populations indicates that movement of people occurred too, but the extent of the correlation ...
González‐Santos M +10 more
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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 453-495, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system.
Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Terje Lohndal
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Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators
Mind &Language, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 1187-1207, November 2023., 2023 Given current data, only a few binary Boolean operators are expressed in lexically simple fashion in the world's languages: and, or, nor. These do not occur in every combination, for example, nor is not observed by itself. To explain these cross‐linguistic patterns, we propose an encoding of Boolean operators as update procedures to accept or reject ...
Fausto Carcassi, Giorgio Sbardolini
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The Whale and the Microorganism: A Tale of a Classic Example and Linguistic Intuitions
Cognitive Science, Volume 47, Issue 4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract A classic example of the arbitrary relation between the way a word sounds and its meaning is that microorganism is a very long word that refers to a very small entity, whereas whale is a very short word that refers to something very big. This example, originally presented in Hockett's list of language's design features, has been often cited ...
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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American Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 389-400, June 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Among Datooga pastoralists of Tanzania, an elaborate in‐law naming taboo has led to the emergence of a conventionalized avoidance vocabulary used by married women. We report on a survey investigating Datooga children's knowledge of this special vocabulary. The questionnaire and our expectations were pre‐registered and the results were analyzed
Alice Mitchell, Péter Marton Rácz
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
, 2019 Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics [PDF]
, 2012 The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in
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Legume Science, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2020., 2020 Abstract Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) was originally domesticated in sub‐Saharan Africa but is now cultivated on every continent except Antarctica. Utilizing archeological, textual, and genetic resources, the spread of cultivated cowpea has been reconstructed.
Ira A. Herniter +2 more
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