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Propositions pour l’orthographe du maninka (Guinée)
Mandenkan, 2014 The authors advance orthography rules for the Maninka of Guinea in Roman script. They suggest solutions to many problems under discussion for many years: spelling of the syllable-final nasal element followed by a consonant; the inventory of the ...
Mamadi Diané, Valentin Vydrin
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Immigrants in Health Care: Keeping Americans Healthy Through Care and Innovation [PDF]
, 2016 Immigrants play an outsized and imperative role in the U.S. health care industry. Combining existing data and profiles of immigrants across the health care spectrum, Immigrants in Health Care: Keeping Americans Healthy Through Care and Innovation ...
Marcia D. Hohn
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Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 268-284, September 2025.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan +2 more
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Closed adjective classes and primary adjectives in African Languages [PDF]
, 2008 The existence of closed adjective classes (henceforth CAC) has long been recognized for African languages. Although I probably haven't found the earliest mention of this property , Welmers' 1973 statement in 'African Language Structures' is often quoted.
Segerer, Guillaume
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Ethnolinguistic and genetic diversity of fonio (Digitaria exilis) in Senegal
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 3, Page 666-678, May 2025.Fonio (Digitaria exilis—Kippist—Stapf) is a neglected cereal crop that plays a crucial role in the food and nutritional security of sub‐Saharan populations. Currently threatened with extinction in many countries, fonio, like other minor species, could help give insights into the history of African agriculture and provide clues to past social ...
Baye Magatte Diop +18 more
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Interview with Ambrosio Mande [PDF]
, 1978 A Filipino who sided with the management during the 1924 strike explains how he co-existed with the strikers.interpreter, sugar plantation worker; Filipino; maleInterview conducted in Visayan (translation ...
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Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 388-413, May 2025.Abstract Understanding predictors of climate policy support is important for tackling climate change. Previous research demonstrated that policy support is partially driven by cultural worldviews. Yet, treating policies as a homogeneous concept, this literature neglected the existence of different policy types.
Christian Bretter, Felix Schulz
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Propositions pour l’orthographe du bamanankan
Mandenkan, 2014 The authors advance solutions to certain problems of the Bamanankan which had remained hitherto unresolved, such as spelling of the syllables of the type “nasal consonant + vowel i or u”. They suggest to distinguish phonemes gw and sh.
Mahamadou Konta, Valentin Vydrin
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