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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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Vowel Harmony and Cyclicity in Eastern Nilotic [PDF]
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001 No abstract available.
Eric Bakovic
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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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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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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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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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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 +1 more
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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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Occurrence and Genesis of Cold‐Seep Authigenic Carbonates from the South‐Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The Depositional Record, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 844-870, November 2023., 2023 Methane‐derived authigenic seep carbonates are important archives to identify seep dynamics, the source of the ascending methane‐enriched fluids and their timing. To elucidate past seepage activity and dynamics across the basin, different seep carbonate morphologies (chimneys, crusts and pavements) retrieved from the Levant Basin were mapped based on ...
R. Weidlich +7 more
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The Middle‐Eastern marriage pattern? Malthusian dynamics in nineteenth‐century Egypt
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1231-1258, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Malthus predicted that fertility rises with income and that people regulate fertility via regulating marriage. However, evidence on the Malthusian equilibrium has been mostly confined to Europe and East Asia. We employ Egypt's population censuses of 1848 and 1868 to provide the first evidence on the preindustrial Malthusian dynamics in the ...
Yuzuru Kumon, Mohamed Saleh
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