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Preverbal clitic clusters in the Tanzanian Rift Valley revisited Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Andrew Harvey, Hannah Gibson, Richard Griscom
This paper examines preverbal clitic clusters in the Tanzanian Rift Valley, an area of high linguistic diversity with representatives of the Bantu, Cushitic, and Nilotic families, as well as Sandawe (possibly a distant member of the Khoi-Kwadi family), and the language isolate Hadza. An earlier work (Kießling, Roland, Maarten Mous & Derek Nurse. 2008. The Tanzanian Rift Valley area. In Bernd Heine
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo, Malin Petzell
This paper explores the formal correspondences between the members of verb pairs participating in the noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, a Bantu language from Tanzania. Our investigation shows that Kagulu has a predominance of equipollent verb pairs, with the anticausative and causative correspondences following close behind. We argue that, diachronically, the causative correspondence was much
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Review article: messages from (not so distant) relatives in the Nuba Mountains: on how (not) to reconstruct Proto-Bantu Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
The rich morphological systems and discourse-based syntactic structures of a range of modern Bantu languages have attracted the attention of many linguists. The present contribution takes articles in a volume on the reconstruction of Proto-Bantu grammar edited by Bostoen et al. (2022. On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 4. Berlin: Language Science Press. 808 pp. https://doi
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The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Corentin Bourdeau
In Wolof (Niger-Congo), focus is expressed morphosyntactically via specific focus constructions. This article deals with two of them, namely the subject-focus and the complement-focus constructions. I propose to analyse them as copulaless cleft constructions of the form focus | topic, that is, constructions in which the focus and the topic are juxtaposed. In such clefts, the topic of the sentence is
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Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Andrey Shluinsky
This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized. Two prepositions are used very widely, one of them expressing a comitative meaning and a number of related ones, the other having
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Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes: exploring embodiment in the Efik feeling lexica Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Eyo O. Mensah, Vivian Afi Dzokoto
Languages feature labels used to name various feeling states, referred to as emotion lexica. Language-specific linguistic features patterned after culturally-shaped templates such as somatic referencing, make each emotion lexicon unique. This study investigates somatic referencing in the emotion lexicon of the Efik ethnolinguistic group obtained through ethnographic linguistic fieldwork in South-eastern
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A corpus analysis of Swahili’s dual-complementizer system Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Aron Finholt, John Gluckman
Tanzanian Swahili has two complementizers, kuwa and kwamba, both used to introduce finite embedded clauses. We explore whether the complementizers are in free variation, as reported in all descriptive and pedagogical work. Our study primarily relies on corpus data, which we supplement with native speaker judgments. We find that the complementizers are not in free variation, but in fact are affected
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The first person prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Maria Bulakh
South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1sg/1pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1pl suffix is often employed in the Prefix Conjugation
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Tones and paradigms: a study of grammatical tones in Mande verbal inflection Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Maria Konoshenko
This paper explores how grammatical tones (GTs) are organized into inflectional paradigms in a sample of 20 Mande languages (Niger-Congo), where tonal morphology plays a central role in the expression of TAMP meanings. Adopting the Canonical Typology approach, I assess the degree of canonicity in Mande GTs based on their formal and semantic properties. I show that verbal grammatical tones are mainly
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Restructured Niger-Congo gender systems as another type of concurrent nominal classification Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Tom Güldemann, Ines Fiedler
Recent research looks increasingly at languages with more than one system of nominal classification and first systematic typological assessments of so-called “concurrent noun classification” exist with a focus on cases involving classifiers and gender. We elaborate on this work by dealing with Niger-Congo languages that have restructured their inherited noun classification in a particular way. The
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Tone and prosodic recursion in Degema nouns and noun phrases Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Nicholas Rolle, Ethelbert Emmanuel Kari
This paper presents the first systematic study of tone in nouns and noun phrases in Degema. From a database of approximately 1,000 nouns, we find that nouns fall into three main tone patterns: /L-L/ (48% of nouns), /H-H/ (18%), and /L-HH/ (13%). This last case is theoretically important in that it includes cases where two separate H tones associate to the same tone-bearing unit, in violation of the
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An areal typology of kin terms in the Nuba Mountain languages Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Stefano Manfredi
Despite the relatively large amount of linguistic and anthropological data on kinship terminologies in the languages of the Nuba Mountains, we still lack cross-linguistic studies attempting at reconstructing the areal history of this highly variable lexical field. This paper aims at comparing the formal and semantic features of kin terms across the languages of the Nuba Mountains in order to provide
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Noun formation in Kabyle Berber Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Samir Ben Si Saïd
This article deals with the formation of nouns in Kabyle Berber. Analysis of Dallet’s (Dallet, Jean-Mari. 1982. Dictionnaire kabyle-français. Paris: Selaf) dictionary data has shown that 1) elements that appear in the plural but are absent in the singular are unpredictable and therefore part of the lexical ingredients of the root; 2) the plural template has a constant size of 5 CV units.
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The development of the encoding of deictic motion in the Bantu language Rangi: grammaticalisation and change Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Hannah Gibson,Aicha Belkadi
Abstract The close cross-linguistic relation between the domains of space and time has been well described. The frequent emergence of Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) markers from deictic motion verbs in particular, has also been extensively detailed in the literature. This paper focusses on the less well-known link between associated motion, a category of functional morphemes expressing (deictic) motion events
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Tone and the prosodic stem in Malawian CiTonga Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Winfred Mkochi,Lee Bickmore
Abstract In CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken in northern Malawi, a number of different morphemes within the verbal complex can sponsor a High tone. While the High tone of a morpheme which precedes the stem is shown to be underlyingly pre-linked, those found after the beginning of the stem are argued to be underlyingly floating. This latter group of High tone autosegments can be shown to exclusively
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Allison, Sean: A grammar of Makary Kotoko Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Mahamane L. Abdoulaye
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On the systematic nature of Dinka noun number morphology Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 D. Robert Ladd,Mirella L. Blum
Abstract We present an analysis of noun number marking in Dinka, based on Andersen’s system of vowel grades and a new system of tone classes. Assuming that the ‘unmarked’ grade 1 form can be either singular or plural, we show that the morphology is more systematic than has been previously suggested. Roughly half of our dataset can be treated as synchronically regular, and in more than half the remainder
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Newman, Paul & Roxana Ma Newman: Hausa Dictionary: Hausa-English English-Hausa, Ƙamusun Hausa: Hausa-Ingilishi/Ingilishi-Hausa Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 William R. Leben
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Action nominalization: a view from Esahie (Kwa) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Obed Nii Broohm,Chiara Melloni
Abstract The paper provides a comprehensive account of the derivation of action nominals in Esahie, a Ghanaian language of the Tano subgroup (Kwa, Niger-Congo) which has been undocumented thus far, especially as far as morphosyntactic phenomena are concerned. The aim of the research is threefold: to contribute to language documentation, to provide a systematic description and analysis of the morphosyntactic
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Eʋegbe nyakpemenyi ŋuti nunya ŋu nusɔsrɔ̃ na gɔmedzelawo A study of Ewe phonology for beginners Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Mercy Adzo Klugah,Promise Dodzi Kpoglu
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Static locative expressions in Amharic Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Gashaw Arutie Asaye
Abstract This paper describes the semantics of static locative expressions in Amharic, particularly the variety spoken in Godʒdʒam. The analysis shows that the semantic category of a site subsumed under Path is exclusively expressed by an adposition. The adpositions can be specific and general locatives. The specific locatives show a specific type of topological relation (for instance, verticality
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Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) language and culture Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Saskia van Putten
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Acquisition of doubly articulated stops among Ga-speaking children Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Felix Kpogo,Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole,Jonathan Nsiah Tetteh
Abstract This study investigates the acquisition of labio-velar stops by Ga-speaking children in Ghana. Such stops were elicited in initial, intervocalic, and pre-lateral positions through a picture naming task. Sixty Ga-dominant and Ga-English children at 5-, 61/2-, and 8-years of age were tested. All age groups showed some difficulty with the doubly articulated stops, but this was relative to voicing
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Documenting the Ikpana interrogative system Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Jason Kandybowicz,Bertille Baron Obi,Philip T. Duncan,Hironori Katsuda
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive treatment of the interrogative system of Ikpana (ISO 639-3: lgq), an endangered language spoken in the southeastern part of Ghana’s Volta region. The article features a description and analysis of both the morphosyntax and intonation of questions in the language. Polar questions in Ikpana are associated with dedicated prosodic patterns and may be segmentally
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Recent publications in African linguistics Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Nina van der Vlugt
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The expression of modality in Logoori Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 John Gluckman,Margit Bowler
Abstract This study presents a theoretically informed description of the expression of modality in Logoori (Luyia; Bantu). We document verbal and non-verbal modal expressions in Logoori, and show how these expressions fit into proposed typologies of modal systems (Kratzer, Angelika. 1981. The notional category of modality. In Hans-Jurgen Eikmeyer & Hannes Rieser (eds.), Words, worlds, and contexts:
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Noun modifiers and the n preposition in Siwi Berber (Egypt) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Valentina Schiattarella
Abstract The three most common strategies used to modify a head noun, namely through a possessive, an adjective and a relative clause construction feature in Siwi the use of the preposition n. Its presence is obligatory in the possessive constructions, but only present before an adjective or a relative clause in some contexts, depending on the level of restriction that the speaker wants to place on
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La main abstraite, analyse d’un élément polyfonctionnel en samba leko, langue Adamawa du Cameroun Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Gwenaëlle Fabre
Résumé Comme bien d’autres langues isolantes, le samba leko dispose de morphèmes transcatégoriels et polyfonctionnels quelque peu déroutants pour le descripteur à la recherche de l’invariant sémantique supposé observable dans la variété de leurs emplois. On se propose ici, au travers des différentes attestations de ce terme dans le corpus textuel de première main, de traiter de l’élément na᷆ ∼ na᷄w
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Recent Publications in African linguistics Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Nina van der Vlugt
The following is a continuation of our comprehensive list of recently published books andmonographs onAfrican languages and linguistics. Prices are givenwhere available. This list serves as an acknowledgement of receipt of review copies of the items marked (R). Copies of book reviews printed in the journal are automatically sent to the publishers. There can be no guarantee, however, that all works
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Moraic preservation and equivalence in Gújjolaay Eegimaa perfective reduplication Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Abbie Hantgan,Serge Sagna,Stuart Davis
AbstractThe role of syllable weight in Gújjolaay Eegimaa, an Atlantic language spoken in south-western Senegal, is evidenced by reduplicative patterns in the perfective stem, where we witness a difference in the surface representation of verb roots with underlying voiced obstruents from those with underlying voiceless obstruents. We argue that voiced plosives are weight bearing and therefore considered
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African youth languages: New media, performing arts & sociolinguistic development Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Cheng Chen,Le Cheng
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Phonological tone. (Key topics in phonology) Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Virginia Beavon-Ham
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A description of the Xhosa construction ya ‘go’ plus subordinate imperfective Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Bastian Persohn
AbstractThis paper offers a descriptive analysis of an aspectual periphrasis in Xhosa (Bantu S41). The construction in question consists of a form of ya ‘go’ plus a verb in the subordinate imperfective paradigm. It is argued that this construction works at the level of actionality (“lexical aspect” or “aktionsart”), rather than constituting an aspectual operator sensu stricto. The overall actional
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Position et location en peul, l’usage de ka au Fouta Djallon Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Abdourahmane Diallo
RésuméLe but de cette contribution est d’analyser les particules locatives en peul, plus particulièrement l’emploi de ka dans le dialecte du Fouta Djallon. L’étude a été menée majoritairement sur la base des données empiriques auxquelles s’ajoutent quelques données secondaires issues de sources publiées. Les données primaires ont été collectées entre mai et décembre 2017 en Guinée à partir de la variété
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Operator focus in discourse and grammar: The two perfectives in Kakabe Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Alexandra Vydrina
AbstractThis study investigates how focus on a TAM and polarity value, known in the literature as operator (Dik 1989, Watters 2010) or auxiliary focus (Hyman & Watters 1984), is manifested in natural speech in Kakabe, a Mande language. I show that the opposition between the two perfective auxiliaries attested in Kakabe is best analyzed in terms of operator focus and therefore extend this notion to
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Snider, Keith: Tone analysis for field linguists Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 David Roberts
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Vanderelst, John: A grammar of Dagik, A Kordofanian language of Sudan Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Nicolas Quint
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The syntax and semantics of helping: Sociative causation in Kinande Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Philip Ngessimo Mutaka
Abstract We investigate the syntax and semantics of the sociative causative in Kinande (D42), a Bantu language spoken in eastern DRC. We present our discovery that Kinande, apparently unique among Bantu languages, grammaticalizes this type of causation with a specialized morpheme. In sociative causatives, the causer causes through social interaction rather than physical manipulation (direct causation)
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Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Anne-Maria Fehn
Abstract This paper uses historical-comparative approaches in combination with quantitative methods to analyse data from a survey of varieties of the Bantu languages Herero and Kuvale spoken by ethnically diverse groups from southwestern Angola. We assess the status and position of the underdocumented “Kuvale” variety in relation to its closest geographic neighbours, and address questions about the
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External possession of body-part nouns in Jumjum: Possessor raising with possessum incorporation Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Torben Andersen
Abstract In Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, some body-part nouns, and only such nouns, may be externally possessed in transitive and antipassive clauses. In these external possessor constructions, the possessor is either the object of a transitive verb or the demoted patient of an antipassive verb. The externally possessed body-part noun is partly incorporated into the verb, as shown by the following
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Dàgáárè complex constructions: Serial verb constructions, multi-aspectual constructions and coordination Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 Alexander Angsongna
Abstract The Serial Verb Construction (SVC) phenomenon is widely researched across many languages. It is generally regarded as a construction in which two or more verbs share the same arguments within a single clause. The verbs in the series must share some grammatical properties such as tense, aspect and polarity. However, there is a verb sequence construction in Dàgáárè that shows apparent similarities
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Vydrin, Valentin F., Yulia V. Mazurova, Andrej A. Kibrik and Elena B. Markus: Jazyki mira. Jazyki mande [Languages of the World. The Mande Languages] Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Peter Arkadiev
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Erratum to: Applicatives in Ya̧g Dii: Morphological and syntactic implications Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Lee Bohnhoff,Mary Dalrymple
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Erratum to: The structure of Argobba nominal phrase Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Amare Getahun
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A microtypological survey of noun classes in Kwa Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Maria Konoshenko, Dasha Shavarina
Abstract This paper provides an overview of noun class systems in a sample of 20 Kwa languages. It focuses on the synchronic productivity of noun classification in Kwa as opposed to the full-fledged class system assumed for Proto-Kwa and for the general “Niger-Congo prototype” (Good, Jeff. 2012. How to become a “Kwa” noun.” Morphology 22(2). 293–335; Creissels, Denis. Forthcoming. Noun class systems
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Heidi Goes, Koen Bostoen
Abstract The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Kikongo. The ‘(a)symmetric-pVHH’ and ‘back-pVHH’ patterns, the two main and structurally different kinds of pVHH within the KLC, emerged
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JALL@40 Editorial Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Felix K. Ameka, Azeb Amha
The year 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of JALL. As it happens it is also the International Year of Indigenous Languages. A decade ago, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of JALL, our Founding Editor Emeritus, Professor Paul Newman, reminded us of the beginnings of JALL and stressed that JALL is founded above all on empiricism, a “scientifically sound, intellectually sophisticated empiricism”
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Unaltered morphemes as phonological triggers and targets in Rutooro Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Lee S. Bickmore
Abstract Rutooro, a Bantu language spoken in western Uganda, exhibits two processes common to Bantu languages: Mid Vowel Harmony (MVH), by which a high vowel is lowered to mid if it follows a mid root vowel, and Consonant Mutation (CM), by which a high front vowel of certain morphemes trigger a change in the immediately preceding consonant. In forms where both rules could potentially apply, CM applies
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Recent publications in African Linguistics Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Sara Petrollino
The following is a continuation of our comprehensive list of recently published books and monographs on African languages and linguistics. Prices are given where available. This list serves as an acknowledgement of receipt of review copies of the items marked (R). Copies of book reviews printed in the journal are automatically sent to the publishers. There can be no guarantee, however, that all works
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Hunting for signs: Exploring unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Susanne Mohr, Anne-Maria Fehn, Alex de Voogt
Abstract In this article we present comparative data on visual hunting signals from the Kalahari Basin Area of southern Africa, encompassing three Kalahari Khoe-speaking (Ts’ixa, Buga, ǁAni) and one Kx’a-speaking group (Juǀ’hoan). For the comparison, an analysis of handshapes, handedness and iconicity in the individual data sets was conducted. Being applied in analyses of gestures and (partly) sign
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Corrigendum to: Agreement with locatives in Kinyarwanda: a comparative analysis Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2019-07-13 Jochen Zeller,J. Paul Ngoboka
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Creissels, Denis Konstantin Pozdniakov: Les classes nominales dans les langues atlantiques Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-11-06 Fiona Mc Laughlin
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The structure of Argobba nominal phrase Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-11-06 Amare Getahun
Abstract This paper analyzes the internal structure of Argobba nominal phrase in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) formalism. Argobba is a seriously endangered Semitic language in Ethiopia. Unlike its sister languages in the Ethio-Semitic subfamily, Argobba nouns qualified by a demonstrative, possessive pronoun and genitive NP bear a definite article. It is argued in this paper that the definite
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Markedness and dominance in the ATR harmony system of Diola-Fogny Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-11-06 Roderic F. Casali
Abstract Diola-Fogny is a well-known example of a tongue root harmony language with assimilatory dominance of [+ATR] vowels. Less well known, however, are some asymmetries involving the frequency and distribution of [+ATR] and [-ATR] vowels. In addition to being dominant, [+ATR] vowels are subject to restrictions on their occurrence in certain classes of function words and affixes and occur with far
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The use of the ablative clitic in locative phrases in Iraqw, a Cushitic language of Tanzania Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-11-06 Anne Kruijt
Abstract This paper examines the use of the ablative case clitic in locative phrases in Iraqw, a South Cushitic language of Tanzania. In the typological classification of locative marker syncretisms, Iraqw has been classified as a language with a Source=Location≠ Goal pattern. This pattern is extremely rare in languages of the world and has been argued to be unattainable. The Iraqw ablative case clitic
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Applicatives in Ya̧g Dii: Morphological and syntactic implications Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-11-06 Lee Bohnhoff, Mary Dalrymple
Abstract Ya̧g Dii (Niger-Congo/Adamawa-Ubangi, Cameroon) has two applicative constructions: a benefactive/malefactive construction, and a comitative/instrumental (‘accompaniment’) construction. The benefactive/malefactive construction licenses the addition of an indirect object with a benefactive, malefactive, or other goal-like role. The construction is often marked by the verbal extension -D; notably
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Medium of instruction in school: The indigenous language, the national language or the official language? A case study from multilingual deep rural Kenya Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Kari Iren Spernes, Rose Ruto-Korir
Abstract The connection between multilingualism and the school curriculum continues to engender debates on language preferences because of the potential to influence the amount of learning among learners. To understand language preferences among multilingual learners and their implications for the selection of the medium of instruction (MoI) in a multilingual country, data were collected through questionnaires
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Agreement with locatives in Kinyarwanda: a comparative analysis Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Jochen Zeller, J. Paul Ngoboka
Abstract In Bantu languages such as Chichewa or Herero, locatives can function as subjects and show noun class agreement (in class 16, 17 or 18) with predicates and modifiers. In contrast, (preverbal) locatives in Sotho-Tswana and Nguni have been analysed as prepositional adjuncts, which cannot agree. Our paper compares locatives in Kinyarwanda (JD61) with locatives in these other Bantu languages and
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Recent publications in African linguistics Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Sara Petrollino
The following is a continuation of our comprehensive list of recently published books and monographs on African languages and linguistics. Prices are given where available. This list serves as an acknowledgement of receipt of review copies of the items marked (R). Copies of book reviews printed in the journal are automatically sent to the publishers. There can be no guarantee, however, that all works
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The background marker ná in Barayin Journal of African Languages and Linguistics (IF 0.313) Pub Date : 2018-05-25 Joseph Lovestrand
Abstract This article gives a first account of the background marker ná in Barayin, an East Chadic language spoken in the Guera region of Chad. The article describes the marker’s syntactic distribution and the semantic and pragmatic contexts it occurs in. It commonly occurs following a sentence-initial noun phrase or adverbial, and it also commonly follows a sentence-initial dependent clause such as