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Some morphonological phenomenons in suffixations of wolof language
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2010 In this article are described morphonological modifications of vowels and consonants sound in wolof language (North-Atlantic branch of Niger-Congo family) in process of words formation of nouns and verbs by suffixations.
- Diuf Aliou
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Roots of Ergativity in Africa (and Beyond)
Studies in African Linguistics, 2020 In the literature, it is often assumed that ergative constructions originate in passive constructions. The present contribution explores the likelihood of such a passive-to-ergative analysis for one language (Tima, Niger-Congo, Sudan), showing that this ...
Antje Casaretto +4 more
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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
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Conditional constructions in African languages
Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 This paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of Studies in African Linguistics devoted to conditional constructions in African languages. I first describe the motivation for this volume and the common terminological conventions used in the ...
Steve Nicolle
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Focus expressions in Yom [PDF]
, 2009 This paper deals with the means for expressing the pragmatic category of focus in Yom, which is an Oti-Volta language of the Yom-Nawdem group spoken by about 74,000 people (Gordon 2005, online version) in the department of Donga in Northern Benin.
Fiedler, Ines
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.The material has no significant difference in captures (non‐shiny cotton‐polyester screens vs. the shiny polyethylene screens), but the vertical screen attracted significantly more G. tachinoides for each type of material. Full white horizontal screen was significantly lower than the reference WATT.
Ernest Wendemanegde Salou +5 more
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the macroeconomic effects of public investment in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). To this end the analysis develops a new measure of public investment shocks based on cyclically adjusted government investment.
Amat Adarov +2 more
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Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2010 Background and Objectives: Discharge of wastewater from textile dyeing industries has been a problem in terms of pollution and treatment of these waters is a great task.
K Karthikeyan +3 more
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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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