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Conditional constructions in Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language

Studies in African Linguistics, 2017
Lopit is an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan. It has a number of ways of expressing conditionals. The most common way involves the use of the subordinate clause marker l- on the clause-initial verb which introduces the protasis.
Jonathan Moodie
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Jonathan Moodie & Rosey Billington, A grammar of Lopit: An Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Lameen Souag
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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations.
Steven T Goldstein, Natalie G Mueller, Emma Finestone, Elizabeth A Sawchuk, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Jennifer M Miller, Michelle C Langley, Ricardo Fernandes, Axel Steinhof, Victor Iminjili, Christine Chepkorir, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin   +16 more
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Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2017
Northeast Africa has a long history of human habitation, with fossil-finds from the earliest anatomically modern humans, and housing ancient civilizations.
Nina Hollfelder, Carina M Schlebusch, Torsten Günther, Hiba Babiker, Hisham Y Hassan, Mattias Jakobsson   +5 more
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The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa

Studies in African Linguistics, 2020
Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al.
Helga Schröder
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Dholuo Kincepts in Western Kenya

Studies in African Linguistics, 2020
The Luo are a Nilotic people living in western Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania and in western Uganda. Their language, Dholuo, forms part of the Western Nilotic group of languages. This article presents the traditional kincepts (kinship terminology) of the
Washington Onyango-Ouma, Jens Aagaard-Hansen   +1 more
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Anthroponymy in Eastern Nilotic: A case of Turkana personal names

Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2022
This paper is about personal names given to Turkana children at birth, during the rite of passage to adulthood and throughout one’s life. Following the lexical pragmatic theory according to Wilson (2003) and Carston (2002), the paper establishes the morpho-syntactic features of the Turkana names, that is, the inflectional and derivational features.
Susan Kinyua, David Barasa
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The diversity of Maa (Nilotic) adverbs

Studies in African Linguistics, 2020
Maa linguistic varieties (Maasai, Parakuyo, Chamus, Samburu, among others), of the Eastern Nilotic family (Nilo-Saharan phylum), have words which can modify a predicate or predication and have the function of what cross-linguistically are called adverbs.
Doris Payne
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Dominance-as-markedness

Studies in African Linguistics, 2019
This paper examines a formal consequence of the assumption that dominance is equivalent to markedness (Casali 2016): if dominant ATR values are marked and therefore specified, while recessive values are unmarked and unspecified, then no phonological ...
Katherine Hout
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ATR harmony in Turkana

Studies in African Linguistics, 1996
This paper analyzes the [ATR] harmony system of Turkana (Eastern Nilotic). The principal claim made in this paper is that Turkana provides evidence for an underlying ternary contrast in the feature [ATR].
Manuela Noske
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