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Equity in ecosystem restoration
Restoration Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 5, July 2021., 2021 The importance of equity has been emphasized in climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and ecosystem restoration. However, equity implications are rarely considered explicitly in restoration projects. Although the role of equity has been studied in the context of biodiversity conservation and environmental governance, environmental ...
Harry B. M. Wells +7 more
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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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On the verbal system in Langi a Bantu language of Tanzania
Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This paper presents the Langi verbal system and the various ways in which tense, aspect and mood are encoded. Through a description of the structures and uses of the various forms, it attempts to demonstrate how the different conjugations fit together to
Margaret Dunham
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]
, 2010 Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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"Issues and maize bread taste good when they're cool"
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 This paper is an analysis of the basic and extended meanings of temperature lexemes and the grammar of temperature expressions in Kambaata in comparison to related Highland East Cushitic languages of Ethiopia.
Yvonne Treis, Deginet Wotango Doyiso
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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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The interaction of number and gender in Katcha
Studies in African Linguistics, 2018 The Kadu languages of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains have been the subject of an ongoing controversy regarding whether they should be classified as Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, or as an independent family.
Darryl Turner
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Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic Language Contact in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]
Journal of Language Contact, 2012 Africa has up until now been considered a continent where switch-reference systems are extremely rare. This study shows that there is a confined area in the South of Ethiopia where many Omotic languages and a few Cushitic languages have fully grammaticalised switch-reference systems on dependent (co-)subordinate non-final verbs, so-called converbs. The
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Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The Bantu language Rangi is spoken at the northern borderlands of Tanzania, where Bantu, Cushitic and Nilotic languages meet. In many regards, Rangi exhibits the morphosyntax typically associated with East African Bantu: SVO word order, an extensive ...
Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten
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Cushitic loans in South Nilotic revisited
Afrika und ÜberseeThis article explores lexical contact between Cushitic and Nilotic taking the proposed Cushitic language Proto Baz as point of departure. Proto Baz is a putative East Cushitic language proposed by Heine, Rottland & Vossen (1979), on the basis of words ...
Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold
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