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Genetic relationship and the case of Ma'a Mbugu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 This paper addresses the general question of genetic vs. nongenetic language development, in the context of a structural and historical discussion of Ma'a (Mbugu), a language with Cushitic basic vocabulary that is spoken in Tanzania.
Sarah G. Thomason
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021
Aethiopica, 2023 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021
Maria Bulakh +2 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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Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 This article discusses the “extinct” Elmolo language of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya. A surprisingly large amount of the vocabulary of this Cushitic language (whose community shifted to Nilotic Samburu in the 20th century), far from being lost and ...
Mauro Tosco
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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 Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 179, Issue 1, Page 104-117, September 2022., 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 ...
Miguel González‐Santos +10 more
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Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages.
Derek Nurse
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 2194-2205, September 2022., 2022 A cross‐sectional study was conducted from December 2020 to July 2021 on Ixodid tick infestation and tick borne haemopathogens in North West Ethiopia. The overall prevalence of Ixodid tick infestation and tick borne haemopathogens were 45% and 3%, respectively. Babesia bigemina was the only haemoparasite detected in the present survey.
Hailemariam Adugna, Habtamu Tamrat
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Evolutionary Applications, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 663-678, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The contribution of domestic cattle in human societies is enormous, making cattle, along with other essential benefits, the economically most important domestic animal in the world today. To expand existing knowledge on cattle domestication and mitogenome diversity, we performed a comprehensive complete mitogenome analysis of the species (802 ...
Vlatka Cubric‐Curik +31 more
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