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Vowel Harmony in Non-Bantu Niger-Congo Languages
Abstract This chapter examines vowel harmony (VH) in non-Bantu Niger-Congo phonology, focusing on advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony, whereby vowels (all being either [+ATR] or [–ATR]) harmonize for tongue-root position. One subtype is cross-height ATR harmony, which has constraints like */i … ɛ/ or */ʊ … o/ banning mixed ATR values ...Nicholas Rolle, Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie
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Niger-Congo transitive reciprocal constructions and polysemy with reflexives
2017Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development.
Safir, Ken, Selvanathan, Naga
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The Niger-Congo reconstruction project and the perspectives of Niger-Congo comparative studies
2011Бабаев Кирилл Владимирович. The Niger-Congo reconstruction project and the perspectives of Niger-Congo comparative studies [Электронный ресурс] / Kirill Babaev// Вопросы языкового родства. - 2011. - Вып. 5. - С. 146-150. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 5 ).
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Protective neutralizing antibodies from human survivors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
Cell, 2021J Maximilian Fels +2 more
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About 'Eating' in a few Niger-Congo languages
2008This article is a systematisation of the semantic notion of “eating” in Niger-Congo languages. It is based on lexical material published in dictionaries. It shows, contrary to Gouffé (1966) that “eat”, in its semantic extensions, is not basically a “controlled activity”, but is also an “undergone activity”. This in line with Pardeshi et al.
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Niger-congo, with a Special Focus on Benue-congo
2020AbstractNiger-Congo is the largest referential language group in Africa. The extent to which it represents a true genealogical grouping is not established, though there is a large core set of members of the family that all specialists currently accept as related.
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Vowel Harmony in Bantu Niger-Congo Languages
Abstract Vowel harmony is a common, although not universal, feature of Bantu languages. It affects languages throughout the Bantu region, from the northwestern Zone A languages to the southeastern Zone S languages and virtually everywhere in between. However, how vowel harmony functions varies rather widely from zone to zone and languageopenaire +1 more source
On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification
2013The Niger-Congo noun class system has resisted historical reconstruction due to the advanced stage of grammaticalisation its markers present. Yet, incipient systems of alternative nominal classification such as numeral classifiers and class-terms found across various branches of Niger-Congo provide, by virtue of their cognitive transparency, a key to ...
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Niger-Congo numeral classifiers in a diachronic perspective
2018Numeral classifier systems have only recently come to be recognized in various African languages where they either co-exist with fully fledged noun class systems or supersede residual ones. This chapter explores the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of Niger-Congo numeral classifier systems in a typological and a diachronic perspective. Due to an
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Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023David W Hawman, Heinrich Feldmann
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