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Grammatical Relations, Transitivity and Ergativity: An Interactive View of Cleftability [PDF]
, 1994 Keenan and Comrie's Accessibility Hierarchy (AH) applied to clefting predicts greater c1eftability of subject (s U) than direct object (DO). However, in some Eastern Austronesian languages, particularly Tongan, some transitive SUs are less cleftable than
Luo, Cheng
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Noncausal/Causal Alternations and the Rise of Lability in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861) [PDF]
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Bostoen, Koen, Pacchiarotti, Sara
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A step-by-step reconstruction [PDF]
, 2018 This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches.
Pozdniakov, Konstantin
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The Kakabe dialectal continuum: A lexicostatistical study
, 2022 International audienceKakabe, an understudied language in Guinea (Mokole < Western Mande < < Mande < Niger-Congo), is spoken by several ethnic groups, mainly of inferior social status, most of which are bilingual in Pular.
Vydrin, Valentin, Vydrina, Alexandra
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Diachrony of differential argument marking [PDF]
, 2018 While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages code the same grammatical roles differentially.
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Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces [PDF]
Synopsis: The study of epenthesis, or the insertion of a non-etymological segment, has been at the core of phonological theory from the start, and recent approaches extend beyond phonology to include phonetic considerations, as well as morphological ...
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A study of the personal literature written in the Eastern Cape in the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 1995 The evidence of these diaries, all written in the nineteenth century, reveals the heterogeneous nature of early settler society in the Eastern Cape. Generalizations can only be of the most tenuous kind in such a small sample; but women tend to dwell on ...
Young, Cheryl Ann
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Wav2Gloss: Generating Interlinear Glossed Text from Speech
Thousands of the world's languages are in danger of extinction--a tremendous threat to cultural identities and human language diversity. Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) is a form of linguistic annotation that can support documentation and resource ...
Choi, Kwanghee +8 more
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Discourse constraints on word-order variation in Samoic-Outlier languages [PDF]
, 2021 Hooper, Robin
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Grammaire de la langue mano (mandé-sud) dans une perspective typologique [PDF]
, 2014 This work aims to present a grammatical description – as complete as possible – of a South Mande language, Mano (400,000 speakers in Guinea and Liberia), placing it into a typological context, comparing the language with other Mande languages and ...
Khachaturyan, Maria
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