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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Movement Disorders, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 1778-1790, September 2025.Abstract Traditionally, clinical trials of putative disease‐modifying therapies in Parkinson's disease have enrolled untreated patients at the earliest clinical stages of their disease. Due to a number of challenges inherent with this approach, there has been a recent move to a different study design, enrolling patients who are already taking “stable ...
M. Maral Mouradian +2 more
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Le baraïn (Tchad) – Language Snapshot
Language Documentation and Description, 2020 Barayin is a Chadic language spoken by about 5,000 people in the Guera region of Chad, in and near the town of Melfi. There are four Barayin subgroups: Jalkiya, Giliya, Komiya and Jalking. The Jalking and Giliya are linguistically and geographically very
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Folia OrientaliaThe contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Survival versus sustaining: A multidisciplinary inquiry of the environmental dilemma in rural Uganda
Natural Resources Forum, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1226-1243, November 2024.Abstract The livelihoods of the majority of Uganda's population depend on declining environmental resources. The sustainability of the natural environment requires that the people who are interdependent with it, as well as the structures of governance and leadership around them, understand the implications of resource degradation and take deliberate ...
Vincent B. Muwanika +7 more
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 457-477, June 2024.Abstract Giving a precise definition of what an institution is raises epistemological dilemmas concerning its supposed universal applicability and the coexistence of different institutional regimes (e.g. state and customary). Scholars who have dabbled with this question often identify rules, behaviours, values, or social roles as the essence of ...
Giordano Marmone
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract Objectives Previous research revealed that in some African populations, food‐production strategies are associated with facial shape. Nomadic pastoralists living in the African Sahel/Savannah belt have a different facial morphology than their sedentary neighbors. We investigated whether the lifestyle associated with a subsistence pattern has an
Karel Kleisner +2 more
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