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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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Three Analyses of Underlying Plosives in Caning, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan

2017
Caning (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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Vowel Harmony in Nilo-Saharan Languages

Abstract Almost 70 Nilo-Saharan languages are cited in this chapter, several of which are mentioned because of a particular behavior in their vowel harmony (VH) system, whereas others are treated more elaborately with sets of examples. The great majority of the Nilo-Saharan languages have vowel systems with VH based on the feature [ATR].
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