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Inflectional classes in Kipsigis

Glossa, 2022
In this paper, I provide a description and analysis of conjugation classes in Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya). While traditional descriptions discuss two conjugation classes, I show that the morphophonological properties of Class II can be reduced to the ...
Maria Kouneli
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Cushitic–Nilotic Contacts: Tanzanian Cushitic and Kalenjin

, 2023
Heine, Rottland and Vossen (1979) proposed a Cushitic language termed proto-Baz on the basis of Cushitic loans in South Nilotic. Similar and additional proposals are in Christopher Ehret’s PhD thesis (1971).
Mous, Maarten, Rapold, Christian
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Patrium amnem: the image of the Nile in Roman art and literature in the late 1st century AD

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The image of the Nile, formed by Roman authors in the literature of the Flavian era, is compared to the so-called Nilotic scenes embodying a specifically expressed interest in Egyptian culture.
M. S. Chistalev
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Pictorial Workshops in Pompeii. Exploring some Roman Nilotic Paintings

Zephyrus, 2023
From the 3rd century BP onwards, the relationship between Egypt and Rome grew clearer. When the treaty of amicitiawas signed in the year 273 BP, the political, cultural, economic and religious impact on Italian territory was increasingly evident. Also of
Eleonora Voltan
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Kurmuk phonology

Studies in African Linguistics, 2007
This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Kurmuk, a previously undescribed language belonging to the Northern Burun subbranch of the Western Nilotic family.
Torben Andersen
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka

Afrika und Übersee, 2023
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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Fieldwork methodology during a pandemic: case study of West Nilotic

, 2023
Given COVID and its devastating effect on both indigenous and minority communities, linguists must avoid bringing further harm to language communities in conducting documentary and descriptive fieldwork.
Blum, Mirella
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Dealing with data from West Nilotic languages [PDF]

, 2014
Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesSince 2005, the author has been involved in several projects aimed at investigating and documenting the Western Nilotic languages Dinka and Shilluk. Over the years he
Remijsen, Bert
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On Singulative in Nilotic

, 2003
All three branches of the Nilotic languages have the singulative formation in the nominal morphology. The singulative formation in Proto-West Nilotic can be reconstructed as follows; singulative forms were derived from basic stems by attaching the suffix,
稗田, 乃
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Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
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