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On whether 'Doboro' was a fourth Kuliak language
Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 Wayland’s (1931) description of a northeastern Ugandan people called the ‘Wanderobo’ includes thirty-eight ‘Dorobo’ words, many of which resemble words in Ik, the last thriving member of the Kuliak (Rub) subgroup. Because of this resemblance, it has been
Terrill Schrock
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2018 Vowels in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic language, are subject to Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) harmony. Accordingly, the vowels are divided into two harmony sets which differ in terms of tongue root position.
Barasa, David
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VALIDATING HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS: AN APPROACH FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 384-402, September 2024.ABSTRACT Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of data needs to be considered and that information should be reliably sourced—the actual criteria for assessing supportable interpretations are ...
LAWRENCE ROSEN
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Journal of Mosaic Research, 2015 This paper will bring for the first time an in-depth study of the ship depicted in the mosaic on the east pier of the north colonnade of the courtyard in the Great Mosque at Damascus.
Zaraza Friedman
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Alignment systems and passive-antipassive distribution in nilotic languages
, 2015 This paper discusses the occurrence of passive and antipassive constructions in Nilotic languages in relation to the question of whether Nilotic languages developed from an ergative-absolutive to a nominativeaccusative case marking system or vice ...
Schröder, Helga
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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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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 393-396, June 2025.
Nomi Schneck
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Hb P Nilotic – β0 thalassemia : mutation of a human hemoglobin regulatory gene? [PDF]
, 1978 The proposita in a Sudanese family had a moderately severe thalassemia syndrome with the hemoglobin variant P Nilotic (Hb P). This Hb P the product of a βδP fusion gene (anti-Lepore) with a cross-over between residues 22β and 50δ, and is associated with
Huisman, Titus Hendrik Jan +3 more
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Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk:A ternary voice-like system in Nilotic
, 2015 This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either
Andersen, Torben
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Ordering being, divining time: Nilotic sacrifice as iconic poiesis
The Karimojong prophet Apaokere was called by Divinity in a dream to sacrifice. In this vision, Divinity instructed him to kill a prized dark ox for the women of his household to avoid the onset of “nothingness.” This two-part essay (the first part ...
Amoah, Quincy
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