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Theory and description in African Linguistics [PDF]
, 2019 The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva +20 more
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Enset Landraces: Conservation, Distribution, and Use in an Enset‐Based Agricultural System
Scientifica, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Enset is a unique food security crop for more than 25% of the population in Ethiopia and serves as a food, animal feed, medicine, and fiber source, with significant resilience and environmental adaptability. Enset growing zones harbor several landraces, resulting from differences in natural selection, human selection, and cultural management practices.
Tafesse Kibatu +4 more
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai +2 more
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Natural language is a type of language that human beings use to communicate with each other. However, it is very difficult to communicate with a machine‐understandable language. Finding context meaning is challenging the activity of automatically identifying machine translation, indexing engines, and predicting neighbor words in natural language.
Tabor Wegi Geleta +2 more
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The typology of tone and Cushitic [PDF]
, 2021 The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the ...
Mous, Maarten, Mous, M.P.G.M.
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