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Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin +2 more
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The Plant Journal, Volume 126, Issue 5, June 2026.Significance Statement Life on Earth depends on photosynthetic CO2 fixation via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle to form organic carbon. This process evolved first in cyanobacteria and was later conveyed to eukaryotes, giving rise to plastids in algae and plants. To cope with low atmospheric CO2 concentrations that developed over the course of evolution,
Erik Zimmer +3 more
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The lexicalization of concepts of time in naming sequences of days in Tanzanian Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The conceptualization of time-frames in African societies was presumed to bear elaborate abstract past that connects to ancestors and short future that links to the present time.
Amani Lusekelo
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 98, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Kaposi's sarcoma‐associated herpesvirus (KSHV) has been associated with a variety of diseases and is endemic in Sub‐Saharan Africa. We performed KSHV‐whole‐genome analysis and search for APOBEC‐editing to describe genetic diversity in samples issued from an endemic region.
Gervillien Arnold Malonga +11 more
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Double reflexes in north-western Bantu and their implications for the Proto-Bantu consonant system
, 2022 A number of languages in the north-westernmost area of the Bantu domain have been claimed to present two different reflexes of originally unitary Proto-Bantu (PB) phonemes. A solution to this surprising situation has been sought in the presence of some assumed phonological conditioning, whereas other authors have proposed to reconstruct new proto ...
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The path to verbal bodily diagnostics in isiXhosa
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This article explores the manner in which deverbal nominals derived from verbs related to bodily processes manifest themselves within the Generative Lexicon paradigm.
Mletshe, Loyiso
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Thunderbird International Business Review, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 289-304, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
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On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
, 2023 This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family.
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Diachronic typology and the reconstruction of non-selective interrogative pronominals in Proto-Bantu
, 2022 In this chapter, I propose a typologically informed reconstruction of the Bantu non-selective interrogative pronominals (NSIPs). Bantu NSIPs are characterised by a bewildering degree of formal variation, which makes their reconstruction particularly difficult. Therefore, I begin with a more general methodological discussion of the issue of variation in
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