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Floating tone noun class prefixes in Mada (Nigeria)

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021
Mada [mda], a Plateau language spoken in central Nigeria, has many seemingly inexplicable tone alternations that occur between the singular and plural forms of nouns.
Keith L. Snider
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Le nom du souverain dans les parlers « kotoko » du Cameroun

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021
The so-called “Kotoko” group is located mainly in the far north of Cameroon, and marginally in Chad and Nigeria. It is composed of small fortified kingdoms built primarily in the West of the Lower Chari and the Lower Logone.
Henry Tourneux
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The role of the Babanki noun phrase-final enclitic class marker

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of the North-West Region of Cameroon exhibits a noun phrase (NP) level enclitic class marker related to that found in other Ring languages such as Aghem and Lamnso’. As is common in Ring noun class systems generally,
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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The noncausal/causal alternation in the Western Serengeti languages

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
This paper takes a look at the noncausal/causal alternation in a sample of about 30 verb pairs in the Western Serengeti languages (WS) Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and Ngoreme, spoken in the Mara region of Tanzania.
Antti Laine, Rasmus Bernander, Lotta Aunio   +2 more
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Absolute and partial false friends between isiZulu and isiXhosa of South Africa

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Even though people can communicate fluently, the development of ‘false friends’ has resulted in misunderstandings and misinterpretations among closely related tribal languages.
Sibongile I. Malindisa, Itani P. Mandende, Madoda Cekiso   +2 more
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From slave trade to fuel tanks: On Benin’s colonial displacements

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
In this article, I propose the possibility of alternative ways of narrating African histories through art objects as allusive openings inciting a change in Western ways of perceiving the African continent.
Agnieszka Pantuchowicz
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Notes on Operations: Classifying African Literary Authors [PDF]

, 2016
This paper reviews the literature on the inadequacies of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) schedules for African literary authors and describes a modified practice that collocates African literature and facilitates patron browsing. Current LCC
Green, Marilyn A., Rathbun-Grubb, Susan
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Reduplication and the IsiZulu novel: A morpho-stylistic critique

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While reduplication qualifies as a pure linguistic entity, little has been done to investigate this aspect in the context of literary works. This article thus seeks to attempt to close this gap by exploring a linguistic stylistic analysis of ...
Sizwe Z. Dlamini
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Minding the Gaps in the Wolane Verbal System

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2019
Meyer (2006) classifies the verbs of the Ethiosemitic language Wolane into three major types and several subtypes, according to the surface vocalizations of the three stems of each verb.
Noam Faust
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A Methodology for Estimating the Size of Subject Collections, Using African Studies as an Example [PDF]

, 1983
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Lauer, Joseph J.
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