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A Pragmatic View on Clause Linkages in Toposa, An Eastern Nilotic Language of South Sudan
, 2021 Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan, has been identified as a clause-chaining language (Schröder 2013, Schröder 2020), because it does not allow two independent clauses following each other, but the fundamental sentence structure is that ...
Schroeder , Helga
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023 Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
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Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 517-531, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract The interactions between mobile pastoralists and semi‐sedentary Nilotic foraging groups in the Middle Nile Valley had long‐term implications for the development of social complexity as seen in the ancient African kingdom of Kerma. This study presents the results of the zooarcheological analysis of animal remains from two sites in the 4th ...
Shayla Monroe +2 more
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Post‐protectorate Uganda and current models of influence across Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 429-445, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper presents the overall results of a research project that investigated factors determining how speakers of Ugandan English express futurity, ability and obligation. Findings reveal that forms identified to convey these meanings in American, Indian, Kenyan or Nigerian English, and whose use would reveal influence from these, are seldom
Christiane Meierkord
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Datives in Nilotic in a typological perspective
, 2009 Amongst the set of widespread derivational extensions on verbs in Nilotic, there is one prototypically marking an event directed towards some individual or a location, usually referred to as the Dative marker in the study of this language family.
Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.
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On whether 'Doboro' was a fourth Kuliak language
Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 Wayland’s (1931) description of a northeastern Ugandan people called the ‘Wanderobo’ includes thirty-eight ‘Dorobo’ words, many of which resemble words in Ik, the last thriving member of the Kuliak (Rub) subgroup. Because of this resemblance, it has been
Terrill Schrock
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Le pouvoir des chiffres : les pratiques comptables de l’autorité mahdiste au Soudan-Est (1883-1891)
Sources, 2020 This article examines the activities of the Mahdist administration in the Eastern Sudan and particularly the production of accounting documents by the Treasury (bayt al-māl) of Tūkar.
Anaël Poussier
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Mosaic maternal ancestry in the Great Lakes region of East Africa [PDF]
, 2015 The Great Lakes lie within a region of East Africa with very high human genetic diversity, home of many ethno-linguistic groups usually assumed to be the product of a small number of major dispersals.
Dunne, DW +53 more
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From 3ptl-to passive : incipient, emergent and established passives [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores, in some detail, the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e.
Siewierska, Anna +2 more
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Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2019 The communities’ in Nyanza and Western Kenya situated to the east of Lake Victoria have come from various directions to their present day settlements. They encompass two linguistic families the Bantu and the Nilotic. These communities came from different
Mildred A.J. Ndeda
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