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Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk:A ternary voice-like system in Nilotic
, 2015 This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either
Andersen, Torben
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From 3ptl-to passive : incipient, emergent and established passives [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores, in some detail, the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e.
Siewierska, Anna +2 more
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Dealing with data from West Nilotic languages [PDF]
, 2014 Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesSince 2005, the author has been involved in several projects aimed at investigating and documenting the Western Nilotic languages Dinka and Shilluk. Over the years he
Remijsen, Bert
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note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2014 In the present paper, we concentrate on (selected) Bantu and Nilotic bare-passive strategies and lay out the basis for a typology of transitive passive constructions in these languages. We argue that bare-passives constitute an optimal strategy to change prominence relations between arguments, in languages that strongly hold to the default mapping ...
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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim The role of historical drainage connectivity and the influence of water level fluctuations in African lakes on the evolution and distribution of macroinvertebrates remain poorly understood. This is partly because evolutionary biology research has largely focused on mobile vertebrates, such as cichlids.
Marie Claire Dusabe +6 more
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VALIDATING HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS: AN APPROACH FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 384-402, September 2024.ABSTRACT Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of data needs to be considered and that information should be reliably sourced—the actual criteria for assessing supportable interpretations are ...
LAWRENCE ROSEN
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 4, August 2024.Abstract Objectives This study presents biological affinities between the last hunter‐fisher‐gatherers and first food‐producing societies from the Nile Valley. We investigate odontometric and dental tissue proportion changes between these populations from the Middle Nile Valley and acknowledge the biological processes behind them.
Nicolas Martin +14 more
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IN THE SHADE OF HAILSTONES: Life‐Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 323-347, August 2024.ABSTRACT In the area of Kano in western Kenya, Luo rice farmers perform a ritual of “digging” indigenous medicine (chwoyo yath) in the rice fields to “arrest” hailstones. The practice is not only rationalized in the image of regulating the spate of climate–accelerated hailstones but also of forming life, expressed through the state of how that life is ...
KENNEDY OPANDE +1 more
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