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Differential Object Marking in Nilo-Saharan
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2010In spite of its widespread nature in the Nilo-Saharan phylum, the differential marking of objects as constituents with or without an explicit case marker has gone virtually unnoticed in the typological literature. The present contribution gives a survey of this economy principle in three Nilo-Saharan subgroups, Fur, Maban, and Eastern Sudanic, where ...
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Nilo-Saharan archaeolinguistics
Abstract Nilo-Saharan, one of three major language families on the African continent next to a range of smaller families and linguistic isolates, lies ‘sandwiched’ between the other two major families, Afroasiatic mainly to the north, and Niger-Congo mainly to the south. Contrary to Niger-Congo, the geographical spread of Nilo-Saharan isGerrit J. Dimmendaal, Hiba Babiker
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Three Analyses of Underlying Plosives in Caning, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan
2017Caning (or Shatt), an Eastern Sudanic (Nilo-Saharan) language of Sudan, has bilabial, alveolar, palatal, and velar plosives, but it is not straightforward for which plosives (if any) there is an underlying voicing contrast. Three analyses that can be shown to account reasonably for the data.
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Language contacts in Nilo-Saharan prehistory
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2003exaly +2 more sources