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Building semantic maps for closely related languages: Words for ‘grain’ and their kin in South Mande
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 This study is an exercise in micro-scale comparison based on the semantic map approach. A semantic map is constructed for meanings associated with the word for ‘grain’ in four closely related South Mande languages: Dan Blowo, Tura, Mwan, and Wan ...
Nikitina Tatiana
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Language in Africa, 2020 Although the Mande languages are usually characterized as analytic, they demonstrate a broader spectrum of typological features. For instance, Gban (South Mande) was analyzed as having evident infl ective elements. This paper concerns the phenomenon of incorporation observed in some Mande languages (Mandinka, Tigemaxo, Soninke).
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Population Genomic Structure of Sorghum Landraces Across Landscape, Environment and Culture. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT The spread of staple crops to diverse environments over time and their current genetic structure may reflect historical dispersal by humans, sustained human preference for particular traits and adaptation to local environments. Sorghum is a drought‐tolerant crop native to Africa cultivated by hundreds of millions of smallholders globally. Here
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Determinants of Malaria Vaccine Awareness Among Women in Ghana: Findings From the 2022 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey. [PDF]
Public Health ChallMalaria vaccine awareness in Ghana is driven by education, digital access, age, religion, and region. Closing digital and regional gaps is essential to reach underserved women and support Ghana's malaria elimination goals. ABSTRACT Background In Ghana, pregnant women are disproportionately affected by malaria, yet awareness of malaria vaccination ...
Sarfo M +4 more
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Common Ground in Demonstrative Reference: The Case of Mano (Mande). [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Khachaturyan M.
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Ergativity and the active-stative typology in Loma
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Ergativity would seem to be non-existant or at least quite rare in Africa. This lack, however, may be related to another continent-wide areal phenomenon: there is a paucity of morphological NP case marking according to either ergative or accusative ...
Noel Rude
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A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande
Mandenkan, 2018 Word‑level replacive tonal patterns are characteristic of the tonology of many Western Mande languages. Such patterns are explicitly discussed in extant descriptions of some languages but mentioned only in passing or not at all for others. This survey of
Christopher R. Green
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Dictionnaire kpele de la Guinée (guerzé) – français
Mandenkan, 2020 This paper is a bilingual Guinean Kpelle – French dictionary, with a brief introduction containing the basic information on Guinean Kpelle, and a French – Guinean Kpelle finder list.
Maria Konoshenko
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Mandenkan, 2013 This paper examines the polysemy patterns of two postpositions marking class-membership and property assignment in Jeli, a Central Mande language, in terms of metaphorical extensions and iconic motivation.
Holger Tröbs
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West African manuscripts in Arabic and African languages and digital preservation [PDF]
, 2017 West African manuscripts are numerous and varied in forms and contents. There are thousands of them across West Africa. A significant portion of them are documents written in Arabic and Ajami (African languages written in Arabic script).
Ngom, Fallou
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