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Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Nilo-Saharan’

2019
Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.   +3 more
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General overview of Nilo-Saharan

2023
Abstract This chapter introduces the expanse of the Nilo-Saharan region, the language family that spread across Central and Eastern Africa. It lists the range of languages and language groups within the region such as Kunama, Eastern Sudanic, Nara, Berta, Nilotic, and Surmic.
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Nilo-Saharan and Its Limits

2020
AbstractInterspersed between two other major phyla on the African continent, Afro-Asiatic (mainly to the north) and Niger-Congo (mainly to the south), lies the Nilo-Saharan phylum. In this chapter a survey is presented of the major groups classified as members of this phylum by Greenberg and other authors in subsequent contributions.
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Clause-internal antitopics in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan verb-second language

Studies in Language, 2021
This article deals with clausal constituent order and dislocation constructions in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language with indicative clauses being verb-second. The preverbal slot is occupied by either an unmarked NP which may have any or no grammatical relation to the verb, a focus constituent, or a particular function word. This slot may be empty, but in
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A Typological Perspective on the Morphology of Nilo-Saharan Languages

2019
Abstract Nilo-Saharan, a phylum spread mainly across an area south of the Afro-Asiatic and north of the Niger-Congo phylum, was established as a genetic grouping by Greenberg. In his earlier, continent-wide classification of African languages in articles published between 1949 and 1954, Greenberg had proposed a Macro-Sudanic family ...
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