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Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1992 Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on The Typology of Tone Languages (1992)
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Tense, Aspect, and Bukusu Verb Tones [PDF]
, 1996 This study is supported in part by NSF Grant SBR-9421362 while preliminary data gathering was funded by a grant from the OSU Language Files ...
Mutonyi, Nasiombe
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DP Positions in African Languages [PDF]
, 2010 A handout of a presentation given at the Afranaph Project Development Workshop on December 10-11, 2010, at Rutgers University in New Jersey.A central concern of syntactic theory has long been to explain and predict the distribution of nominal expressions,
Carstens, Vicki +4 more
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Dschang syllable structure [PDF]
, 1999 The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight
Bird, Steven
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Number in South-Bauchi-West Languages [PDF]
, 2011 Paper presented at the workshop "Number in Africa and Beyond: Grammar, Semantics and Social Deixis 27.-30. September 2011, Institute for African Studies, University of CologneSouth-Bauchi West Chadic (SBW) languages, spoken in northern Nigeria, do not ...
Caron, Bernard
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A first approach to the prosodic system of Laze: fieldwork data and cross-language perspectives [PDF]
, 2008 International audienceThis is a preliminary study of the tone system of the Laze language as spoken in the township of Xiangjiao, Muli county, Sichuan (四川省木里县项脚乡). Its tonal system is here described as being structured in terms of H(igh), M(id) and L(ow)
Michaud, Alexis
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, 2007 Cette étude décrit et explique la composition et la réalisation du ton en njém, une langue bantoue de la région forestière du sud-est du Cameroun et du nord de Congo. Les noms ont principalement des racines monosyllabiques et disyllabiques. Les racines verbales sont principalement monosyllabiques (CV et CVC) et disyllabiques (CVCV) sauf lorsqu'elles ...
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Review of Derek Nurse and Gérard Philippson, eds., 'The Bantu Languages' [PDF]
, 2005 Marten, Lutz
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Le Futur dans les langues tchadiques du groupe Sud-Bauchi Occidental (SBW), Nigéria [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the place of Future in the conjugation system of a groupe of 27 Chadic "languages" spoken in the south of Bauchi State, labelled 'South-Bauchi-West' by Shimizu (78).
Caron, Bernard
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Tonal inversion in Geji and Pelu [PDF]
, 2011 Geji and Pelu are two dialects of Geji proper, a language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Pelu and Geji are two very close dialects with very similar lexicon. However, tonal inversion is frequently observed in pre-pausal forms.
Caron, Bernard
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