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The Enclitic in Tiv Associative Constructions and Prepositional Phrases
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 Tiv associative constructions and prepositional phrases are characterized by what was originally a noun class agreement enclitic that has degenerated in some morphosyntactic contexts to a grammatical tone that remains invariant in noun class agreement ...
Michael Angitso
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Morphologically based agreement in Swahili
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 In this paper we argue that to a great extent noun class agreement in Swahili is based on inflectional features. Yet where inflectional features are not present, a derivational feature of inherent noun class controls agreement.
Karl H. Reynolds, Carol M. Eastman
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Phonotactics of noun class disambiguation in Xhosa
, 2016 Bantu languages are noted for their noun class systems. These noun classes tend to connect to semantic domains: e.g., humans are prototypically in classes 1 and 2.
A. Braver, W. Bennett
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Flore Bollaert +2 more
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Le nom "catégorie", au croisement de la généralité et de la sous-spécification
Corela, 2021 In this paper, we question the linguistic status of the French noun catégorie. By its semantic properties, catégorie can be considered as a general or sommital noun, while it can be apprehended as a subspecified noun or signalling noun if syntactic ...
Marie Lammert
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Prosodically-conditioned vowel shortening in Chindali
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 In Chindali [Bantu M21, northern Malawi and southern Tanzania], the augment vowel of noun classes 1 a, Sa, 9 and 10 exhibits allomorphic variation in length.
Robert Botne
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Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1997 This paper proposes a novel method of learning probabilistic subcategorization preference. In the method, for the purpose of coping with the ambiguities of case dependencies and noun class generalization of argument/adjunct nouns, we introduce a data ...
T. Utsuro, Yuji Matsumoto
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