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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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British and American norms in the Trinidadian English lexicon
Abstract Previous work on norm orientations in the Caribbean Englishes has focussed largely on phonological norms, such as accents, and, to a lesser extent, grammatical norm orientation. Outside of the publication of dictionaries, however, lexical norms and their spread have received little attention.
Guyanne Wilson
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Typology and evolution of diminutives in the Kikongo Language Cluster
This article proposes both a typology of the variation which languages of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) manifest in terms of diminutive marking and a reconstruction of how this variation evolved through time. The high diversity of diminutives within
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Intergenerational ethics in Africa: Duties to older adults in skipped generation households
Abstract This paper examines individual and societal duties to older adults in sub‐Saharan Africa who reside in skipped generation households, which are households in which a young and old generation live together with the middle generation absent. As they age, older adults in skipped generation households may lack the prospect of social and economic ...
Nancy S. Jecker
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Kikongo as Prototype Language: Linguistic Sovereignty Against Colonial Lexicography
This article advances a provocative thesis: Kikongo can be modelled as a prototype language whose phonological richness, noun class system and onomatopoeic logic provide a template from which later, more degraded systems diverge.
Malanda, Josh
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Proposta descritiva dos principais pragmatemas empregados en kíkôngò (H16) [PDF]
Este artigo ten por obxectivo describir o funcionamento e a estrutura dos principais pragmatemas empregados en kíkôngò, lingua bantú falada en Angola, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo- Brazzaville e Gabón.
Inocente Luntadila Nlandu
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As influências linguísticas portuguesas em África fora das fronteiras dos PALOP
THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE INFLUENCES IN AFRICA OUTSIDE THE BORDERS OF THE PALOP COUNTRIES The main objective of this paper is to present the zones of influence of Portuguese language in Africa focusing on countries that are not part of the group of ...
Natalia Czopek
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As secuencias fixas en kíkôngò: os frasemas construídos con nomes de partes do corpo / Fixed sequences in Kíkôngò: phrasems involving body part nouns [PDF]
Os estudos fraseolóxicos suscitan un interese crecente dende os anos 80. Neste sentido, a fixación constitúe un elemento esencial na descrición das linguas. Porén, no que concirne ao kíkôngò, non existen estudos que tratasen previamente este fenómeno.
Dolors Català Guitart +1 more
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Un Universal Dans Les Quantificateurs Indéfinis
On s’intéresse aux pronoms du paradigm e «n’importe qui, n’importe quel, n’importe où. ctc. .», auquels correspondent dans de nombreu ses langues des formes bâties sur des pronoms ou adverbes interrogatifs.
Maurice Coyaud
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Lukufiku: empava tuzolele sunzula muna soneka ovava, lukasakeso lwa tuka muna mboka alusunzulu lwa salu kya kubikilu kua n´kanda a nsangu Njinga & Sapé.
Homem, Narciso Benedito +1 more
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