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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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Historical Drainage Evolution and Water Level Fluctuations in the African Great Lakes Shaped Phylogeny and Biogeography of Freshwater Gastropods

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, Catharina Clewing, Grace Kagoro‐Rugunda, Marcellin Rwibutso, Oscar Wembo Ndeo, Julius Tumusiime, Christian Albrecht   +6 more
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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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Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages [PDF]

, 1982
The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa.
Heine, Bernd, Reh, Mechthild
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Neoproterozoic crustal evolution in Southern Chad: Pan-African ocean basin closing, arc accretion and late- to post-orogenic granitic intrusion. [PDF]

, 2006
International audienceIn the Lake Léré region, southern Chad, Neoproterozoic terrains are distributed in four lithostructural groups that reveal the geotectonic evolution of a part of the Pan-African orogenic domain.
Doumnang, J.C., Pouclet, André, Tchameni, Rigobert, Vicat, Jean-Paul, Vidal, Max   +4 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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60,000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2 [PDF]

, 2015
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup L2 originated in Western Africa but is nowadays spread across the entire continent. L2 movements were previously postulated to be related to the Bantu expansion, but L2 expansions eastwards probably occurred much ...
A Al-Abri, A Brehm, A Salas, A Torroni, AJ Drummond, AJ Drummond, BA Malyarchuk, C Barbieri, C Barbieri, C Barbieri, C Barbieri, C Barbieri, C Batini, C De Filippo, C De Filippo, C Hill, D Gurdasani, DM Behar, E Podgorná, GR Abecasis, H Jousse, H-J Bandelt, I McDougall, J Diamond, J Felsenstein, J Novembre, J Saillard, JC Rando, JD Wall, K Bostoen, K Sturrock, L Basell, L Castrí, L Excoffier, L Gusmão, L Pereira, L Pereira, L Pereira, L Pereira, LB Scheinfeldt, M Coelho, M Kearse, M Mielnik-Sikorska, M Richards, M Slatkin, M Van Oven, MC Campbell, MD Costa, MJ Trovoada, MW Blome, N Harich, N Howell, NJR Fagundes, P Forster, P Soares, P Soares, P Soares, P Soares, P Soares, QD Atkinson, R Kuper, RE Kass, RM Andrews, S Weldeab, SA Tishkoff, T Rito, V Cerny, V Fernandes, Y Yokoyama, Z Yang   +69 more
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From hunter‐gatherers to food producers: New dental insights into the Nile Valley population history (Late Paleolithic–Neolithic)

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, Adrien Thibeault, Lenka Varadzinová, Stanley H. Ambrose, Daniel Antoine, Petra Brukner Havelková, Matthieu Honegger, Joel D. Irish, Piotr Osypiński, Donatella Usai, Nicolas Vanderesse, Ladislav Varadzin, Rebecca J. Whiting, Petr Velemínský, Isabelle Crevecoeur   +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, WASHINGTON ONYANGO‐OUMA   +1 more
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Short‐term climatic oscillations versus long‐term delta propagation: Controls on sand transport into the deep Levant Basin since the Pliocene

Basin Research, Volume 36, Issue 4, July–August 2024.
Spatiotemporal evolution of the Nile delta during the Pliocene‐Quaternary. This study provide the first well record of the 100 s‐m‐thick Plio‐Quaternary deep Levant Basin section. This paper shows that Sand–shale ratio inferred from Gamma Ray logs illustrates changes in terrigenous supply into the Levant basin.
Ido Sirota, Yoav Ben Dor, Zohar Gvirtzman   +2 more
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