Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages [PDF]
, 1982 The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa.
Heine, Bernd, Reh, Mechthild
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The Intersection of Syntax, Semantics and Phonology in Kikongo
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1991 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp.
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Dangerous demographics? The effect of urbanisation and metropolisation on African Civil wars, 1961–2010 [PDF]
, 2015 Whether urbanisation promotes or inhibits the risk of civil war is disputed: while case studies usually support the former, quantitative investigations have found either the latter or no significant correlation at all.
Schulz, Nicolai
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A global approach for a dictionary of Lingála: from the localization of software to a lemmatization strategy [PDF]
, 2011 Lingála is the national language spoken in Kinshasa, the capital of the country. Even if this language is going through a straightforward empowering process, its progress is still hindered by the lack of terminological and lexicographic tools; hence the ...
Sene Mongaba, Bienvenu
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The middle as a voice category in Bantu : setting the stage for further research [PDF]
, 2018 The main goal of our paper is to give a first, general description of middle voice in Bantu. As will be shown, this language group has a set of verbal derivational morphemes that challenges some of the concepts related to the middle domain. First of all,
Bostoen, Koen +2 more
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Rastreio etnobotânico nas comunas de Caxito, Mabubas e Úcua (Província do Bengo): resultados preliminares [PDF]
, 2011 Objectivos do estudo: documentar e valorizar os conhecimentos tradicionais, relativamente a utilização de plantas medicinais; orientar estudos de recolha, classificação e identificação de espécies; potenciar a elaboração de perfis fitoquímicos e ensaios ...
Nery, Susana Vaz +2 more
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Impact of training in clinical and microscopy diagnosis of childhood malaria on antimalarial drug prescription and health outcome at primary health care level in Tanzania: A randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2008 BACKGROUND: Prescribing antimalarial medicines based on parasite confirmed diagnosis of malaria is critical to rational drug use and optimal outcome of febrile illness.
Billy Ngasala +8 more
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Associations between Household Latrines and the Prevalence of Diarrhea in Idiofa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
, 2017 Despite the importance of sanitation, few studies have assessed the effects of latrines on the health outcomes of children under 5 years of age. We assessed the relations between latrine coverage and the prevalence of diarrhea in children under 4 years ...
Cha, Seungman +6 more
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ESCRITA E CONVERSÃO NA ÁFRICA CENTRAL DO SÉCULO XVII: O CATECISMO KIKONGO DE 1624.
História Revista, 2014 Desde os seculos XIII-XIV, momento em que ocorreu o primeiro movimento missionario de conversao dos povos pagaos no Oriente, uma das condicoes para a evangelizacao era o conhecimento das linguas dos povos nao cristaos. Nos tempos modernos, um grande esforco foi dedicado ao aprendizado de linguas nativas das Indias Orientais, do Novo Mundo e da Africa ...
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The reconstruction of Proto-Kikongo segmental phonology
, 2016 In this paper we propose a reconstruction of the segmental phonology of the most recent common ancestor of the KLC, i.e. Proto-Kikongo. This reconstruction is based on a large-scale comparative study of phonological micro-variation in the KLC and not only considers comparative series corresponding to existing Bantu lexical reconstructions, but also new
Goes, Heidi +2 more
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