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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]
, 2011 A large part of the morphology of Beja, the sole language of the Northern branch of Cushitic (Afroasiatic), belongs to the root and pattern system. This system is typologically similar to the Semitic one (particularly robust in Arabic) and is also found ...
Vanhove, Martine
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Anne Da Silva +20 more
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Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry [PDF]
, 2019 This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia. Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three
Elias, Alexander
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Enset Landraces: Conservation, Distribution, and Use in an Enset‐Based Agricultural System
Scientifica, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Enset is a unique food security crop for more than 25% of the population in Ethiopia and serves as a food, animal feed, medicine, and fiber source, with significant resilience and environmental adaptability. Enset growing zones harbor several landraces, resulting from differences in natural selection, human selection, and cultural management practices.
Tafesse Kibatu +4 more
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai +2 more
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Cycles of negation in Rangi and Mbugwe [PDF]
, 2015 The Tanzanian Bantu languages Rangi and Mbugwe both employ a double negation marking strategy. In Rangi, verbal negation is achieved through the presence of a pre-verbal negative marker and a negative marker which appears either post-verbally or in a ...
Gibson, Hannah, Wilhelmsen, Vera
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, 2019 This talk examines the various functions of the morphemes called 'impersonal' in the South Cushitic languages of Tanzania. Drawing on a rich body of natural language data, first for Iraqw, and then for Burunge, it is shown that impersonal morphemes are involved in a range of grammatical constructions, some of which (but not all) approximate what has ...
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Genetics Research , Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Despite much attention given to the history of goat evolution in Kenya, information on the origin, demographic history, dispersal route, and genetic diversity of Galla goats remains unclear. Here, we examined the genetic background, diversity, demographic history, and population genetic variation of Galla goats using mtDNA D‐loop and HSP70 single ...
Ednah M. Masila +6 more
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