Retroflexion in Somali Bantu Kizigua: Language Shift and a Contact-Induced Explanation to What Looks Like an Internally Motivated Sound Change [PDF]
, 2015 As discussed by Thomason & Kaufman (1988: 111), there has long been a bias among historical linguists against explanations based on shift-induced interference and that this is partly due to a methodological problem that arises in shift situations ...
Tse, Holman
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The Grammaticalization of "Say" and "Do" : An Areal Phenomenon in the Horn of Africa [PDF]
, 2002 The grammaticalization of verbs meaning ‘say' and ‘do', in periphrastic constructions traditionnally named ‘descriptive compounds' allows transcategorial and intracategorial derivation, leading to more or less deep reorganizations of the verbal systems ...
Cohen, David +2 more
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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2022 McQuillan MA +7 more
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Whole genome sequencing reveals population diversity and variation in HIV-1 specific host genes. [PDF]
Front Genet, 2023 Thami PK +6 more
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Some Berber Etymologies XII [PDF]
, 2015 My series Some Berber Etymologies is to gradually reveal the still unknown immense Afro-Asiatic heritage in the Berber lexical stock. The first part with some miscellaneous Berber etymologies was published back in 1996.
Takács, Gábor
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Why did doctrinal religions first appear in the Northern Subtropical Zone? [PDF]
Evol Hum Sci, 2023 Dunbar RIM.
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Towards a semantic map of the Optative in Beja (North-Cushitic) [PDF]
, 2011 The verbal system of Beja, the sole North-Cushitic language, possesses several indicative and modal verb paradigms whose precise semantic values and syntactic uses are still ill-known.
Vanhove, Martine
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Motion events in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2007 published 2008International audienceBased on oral and written text data, the present article investigates in which morphosyntactic constituents the semantic components of a motion event (i.e.
Treis, Yvonne
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Purpose-encoding strategies in Kambaata [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceThe Highland East Cushitic language Kambaata employs five different purpose-encoding strategies. Purpose clauses can be headed by switch reference-sensitive purposive verb forms or by dative-marked verbal nouns.
Treis, Yvonne
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Review of agricultural production systems in eastern Africa in relation to food and nutrition security and climate change [PDF]
, 2020 The goal of this paper is to provide a unified resource for Eritrea, Djibouti, Somaliland, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. For each country the review covers the topics of livestock production systems and agroecological zones, food
Eshete, Getachew +3 more
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