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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Only 5% of the Haitian population is fully bilingual in French and Kreyòl. On the contrary, 95% of the population is monolingual in the native language, Kreyòl. The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of Haitian high school students toward Kreyòl and French, particularly as official languages, and investigate the effects of ...
Gerdine Michel Ulysse
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Polyfunctional pronominal markers in South-Western Mande [PDF]
, 2014 http://www.nytud.hu/imm16/abs-vol-full-v1.pdfInternational audienceThe paper deals with the syntactic functions and morphosyntactic features of polyfunctional (PF) pronominal markers in South-Western Mande (SWM) languages.
Mishchenko, Daria
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun +57 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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L’indexation du sujet et de l’objet dans les langues atlantiques nord
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2015 In North-Atlantic languages (mostly spoken in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau), the subject is generally encoded in the verb, contrary to what is observed for example in West Mande languages, where the verb provides no information on the subject.
Alain-Christian Bassène
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Hybrid crisis governance – combining hierarchical control with networked collaboration – has gained increasing attention in the public policy and crisis management literatures. Yet, the concept of hybridity remains crude and underdefined, limiting its analytical utility.
Svante Aasbjerg Thygesen +2 more
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Studying Tonal Complexity, with a special reference to Mande languages [PDF]
, 2014 Linguists tend to believe that total complexity of human languages is invariable. In order to test this hypothesis empirically, we need to calculate the complexity in different domains of language structure: phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.
Konoshenko, Maria
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Producción y consumo musical juvenil en África [PDF]
, 2018 Davant la necessitat de promoure perspectives que van més enllà de les narracions familiars dels problemes socials entre els joves, aquest article examina la seua contribució a la producció i al consum de la música popular a l’Àfrica.
Akinwale, Akeem Ayofe
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