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Journal articles on the topic "Niger-Congo languages"

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Childs, G. Tucker. "The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic." Studies in African Linguistics 34, no. 1 (June 1, 2005): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v34i1.107331.

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As the largest language phylum in the world and the most geographically widespread (Williamson & Blench 2000), Niger-Congo understandably exhibits some variation at all grammatical levels. Basic word order stands as no exception to this generalization, and there have been partisans for both an SOV and an SVO reconstructed word order. Gensler 1994 attempts to reconcile the two by claiming that neither proposal is correct; he suggests that both SOY and SVO are derived from Proto-Niger-Congo *S-AUX-O-V-Other. Because of the pattern's "quirkiness" (being found virtually nowhere else in the world) and because it is so widely attested in geographically widely separated Niger-Congo languages, the pattern should be reconstructed for all of Niger-Congo. One crucial piece of evidence for this claim comes from the Southern Atlantic language Kisi. This paper explores Kisi' s facts in further detail to show how central the structure is to the language. It then expands the investigation to other languages of Atlantic, finding that the pattern is much more widely attested than was previously realized, albeit in an attenuated form. The paper concludes by discussing the significance of the Atlantic facts to Niger-Congo in general.
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Abunya, Levina Nyameye, Edward Owusu, and Faustina Marius Naapane. "A Comparative Study of the Simple Clause in Akan, Dagaare and English." Education and Linguistics Research 7, no. 1 (May 15, 2021): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/elr.v7i1.18353.

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The paper compares how the simple clause is expressed in Akan (Kwa, Niger-Congo), Dagaare (Gur, Niger-Congo) and English. It examines the simple clause in relation to noun phrase, verbal phrases, adpositional phrases, basic word order in declarative and focus constructions, and the basic locative construction. Basically, the study reveals that despite the differences, Akan and Dagaare have a lot in common as compared to English. This of course shows how distant English is from the two African languages. Certain linguistic features such as serial verb construction and focus constructions were unique to Akan and Dagaare and this, is not surprising since languages within the same language family (Niger Congo) tend to share certain lexical, phonological, morphological and syntactic features. The significant variation between these languages shows where Akan and Dagaare languages diverge into other sub-family groups: Kwa and Gur, respectively.
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Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. "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 44, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 241–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2023-2012.

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Abstract 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.org/10.5281/zenodo.7560553) as a basis, in order to address the origin of these grammatical properties. More specifically, historical as well as synchronic features of Bantu languages are compared with Tima, a related language spoken in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, and classified as a member of the Kordofanian family within Niger-Congo by Greenberg. Contrary to a popular view, it is claimed here that subject inversion and corresponding (extended) ergative alignment marking with transitive verbs is not only a property of Tima as a Niger-Congo language, but also of several Niger-Congo languages classified as Bantu. Tima consequently may perform a role similar to that of Tocharian in the history of Indo-European studies. The present contribution also raises methodological issues related to lexicon-based Bayesian phylogenetics as against Greenberg’s method of multilateral comparisons, and the historical-comparative method. In addition, it addresses the question of the extent to which the spread of typological features coincides with so-called “belts” postulated in the typological literature on African languages.
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Pozdniakov, Konstantin. "Notes on regular polysemy and homonymy (Mande languages)." Language in Africa 1, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-4-69-84.

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Based on Mande languages as an example, the article examines the possibilities of using regular polysemy and regular homonymy for solving problems of comparative studies and semantic typology. Three cases are investigated. Regular polysemy noted only in Mande languages can be used for semantic reconstruction of Proto-Mande. Regular homonymy, noted only in the Mande languages, makes it possible to distinguish phonetically similar roots of Proto-Mande. Regular homonymy, noted not only in the Mande languages, but also in other branches of the Niger-Congo, makes it possible to discover regular phonetic correspondences between the languages of various branches of the Niger-Congo without any intermediate reconstructions.
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Hyman, Larry. "The Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo Reconstruction." Language Dynamics and Change 1, no. 1 (2011): 3–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221058211x570330.

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AbstractBasing himself largely on areal and typological arguments, Güldemann (2010) claims that neither Proto-Niger-Congo nor Proto-Bantu had more than a "moderate" system of derivational verb suffixes ("extensions"), and that both proto-languages lacked inflectional verb prefixes. Although drawing largely on the same materials as Hyman (2004, 2007a, b), he arrives at the opposite conclusion that Niger-Congo languages which have such morphology, in particular Bantu and Atlantic, would have had to innovate multiple suffixation and prefixation. However, such hypotheses are weakened by two serious problems: (i) These proto-languages, which possibly reach back as far as 10,000–12,000 bp, have clearly had enough time for their morphosyntax to have cycled more than once. (ii) The areal properties of Güldemann's Macro-Sudan Belt most likely represent more recent innovations which have diffused after the Niger-Congo break-up. In this paper, I present further evidence that multiple suffixation and prefixation must have existed even in languages which have lost them. The general conclusion is that current areal distributions are largely irrelevant for long-range linguistic reconstruction.
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Segerer, Guillaume. "The presentation of noun class systems of Niger-Congo languages." Language in Africa 3, no. 2 (July 23, 2022): 8–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2022-3-2-8-36.

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The graphical presentation of Niger-Congo noun class systems shows considerable variation, which deserves a careful examination. The choices of presentation seem to depend on the mere fancy of authors: close languages may be presented in very different ways while different systems may be given very similar graphical choices. After consulting hundreds of descriptions of noun class languages of the Niger-Congo phylum, I could determine four major presentation types. This huge amount of information also allowed me to present new statistical data on the typology of the noun class systems of the phylum.
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Güldemann, Tom, and Ines Fiedler. "More diversity enGENDERed by African languages: an introduction." STUF - Language Typology and Universals 74, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 221–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2021-1030.

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Abstract We give an overview of current research questions pursued in connection with an ongoing project on nominal classification systems in Africa, with a particular focus on Niger-Congo. We first introduce our cross-linguistically applicable methodological approach which provides new insights into the design of a range of gender systems on the continent. We then apply these ideas to the “noun class” systems of Niger-Congo. We focus on non-canonical phenomena of poorly known languages, which attest to an unexpected systemic diversity beyond the well-known Bantu type and promise to change the synchronic and diachronic perspective on the gender systems of this family.
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Vigeland, Friederik. "The numeral system in Longuda." Language in Africa 1, no. 3 (December 25, 2020): 216–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.37892/2686-8946-2020-1-3-216-243.

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This article gives an overview of the cardinal and ordinal numerals in Longuda, a language cluster in north-eastern Nigeria, belonging to the Adamawa branch of the Niger-Congo languages. It focuses on three of its five varieties, namely Deele, Guyuk and Gwaanda, analysing the morphology of the numerals, their behaviour in a noun phrase and the derivation of ordinal numerals from cardinal numerals. It becomes clear that numerals in Longuda are neither adjectives nor nouns but should rather be analysed as being on a scale in-between those lexical categories. The tendency in the languages of the world that lower ordinal numerals are suppletive forms while higher ones are regularly derived from cardinal numerals applies to Longuda as well. At the end of the article, the findings of Longuda numerals are compared to other Adamawa languages and the Niger-Congo family as a whole as compiled by Boyd (1989) and Pozdniakov (2018).
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Sumbatova, Nina. "Landuma: a case of radical alliterative agreement." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 43, no. 1 (May 1, 2022): 83–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2022-8893.

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Abstract The principal goal of this paper is to describe agreement in the Landuma language (Mel < Niger-Congo). Landuma shows agreement in animacy and, for inanimate nouns, radical alliterative agreement, a type of agreement conditioned by phonology: the first phoneme of the agreement prefix is conditioned by the first phoneme of the controlling noun. This type of agreement has much in common with agreement in noun class but is governed by essentially different mechanisms. Radical alliterative agreement is a challenge for linguistic theory, because it contradicts the generally adopted Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax and the understanding of phonological elements as unilateral entities. Radical alliterative agreement has been previously found in some other languages, first of all in the Kru languages (Niger-Congo) and in the Arapesh languages (New Guinea). The authors who have dealt with radical alliterative agreement have suggested a number of alternative descriptions in order to avoid theoretical problems. Some of the possible alternatives are also discussed in this paper.
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Quint, Nicolas. "Classes nominales dans deux langues Niger-Congo : le baïnouck djifanghorois (atlantique) et le koalib (kordofanien)." Faits de Langues 52, no. 2 (August 19, 2022): 177–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19589514-05202010.

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Abstract Koalib (Kordofanian, Central Sudan) and Djifanghor Nyun (Atlantic, Senegal) are two Niger-Congo languages, both of which exhibit rich noun class systems controlling various morphological concord patterns. In this paper, I will study in turn the main characteristics of each of these class systems by taking into account the following criteria: form of the class markers, agreement targets, interaction with number, semantics, class derivation, exceptions and integration of loanwords. I will then discuss the interest and significance of this comparison, bearing in mind the fact that the inclusion of both Nyun and Koalib into the Niger-Congo language family is largely due to the existence of these class systems.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Niger-Congo languages"

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Lesage, Jakob. "A grammar and lexicon of Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), a Niger-Congo language of central eastern Nigeria." Thesis, Paris, INALCO, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020INAL0008.

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Cette thèse fournit la première description détaillée du Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), une langue Niger-Congo parlée à Taraba State, dans le centre-est du Nigéria, par environ 8 000 à 10 000 personnes. La thèse propose une analyse de la grammaire et du lexique du Kam, informée par la typologie et la linguistique aréale, et contribue ainsi à notre compréhension de la structure grammaticale des langues Niger-Congo. Cette description est basée sur des nouvelles données linguistiques récoltées dans la communauté Kam entre 2016 et 2018. Elle se compose de six parties : (1) introduction, (2) analyse phonologique, (3) morphosyntaxe nominale, (4) morphosyntaxe verbale, (5) morphosyntaxe des propositions et (6) un échantillon de texte et un lexique composé de 1300 entrées. Les caractéristiques du Kam qui peuvent être d'un intérêt particulier pour la linguistique africaine et la linguistique générale comprennent les plosives labio-vélaires kp et gb ; une différence prosodique entre les positions fortes et les positions faibles dans les thèmes prosodiques ; la morphologie tonale utilisée pour la dérivation et pour la flexion ; l'absence de classes nominales et du genre grammatical ; des pronoms logophoriques ; les STAMP-morphs (des morphèmes qui expriment simultanément la personne et le nombre grammatical du sujet, le temps, l’aspect et la polarité d’une proposition); les constructions multi-verbes ; des stratégies de réduplication verbale; la négation de la proposition finale ; et les interrogatives de contenu bipartite. Les Kam et leur langue font partie du paysage linguistique et culturel diversifié du nord-est et du centre-est du Nigéria. A ce jour, on classifie le Kam comme une langue isolée dans la sous-famille Adamawa du Niger-Congo. Cependant, comme l'unité généalogique des langues Adamawa n'est plus largement acceptée aujourd’hui, la classification du Kam et des autres langues devrait être révisée. Bien que cette thèse ne traite pas la classification de Kam, elle fournit les données grammaticales et lexicales indispensables pour toute comparaison entre le Kam et d'autres langues et familles de langues
This thesis is the first extensive description of Kam (àŋwɔ̀m), a Niger-Congo language spoken in Taraba State, central eastern Nigeria, by an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people. It offers a typologically and areally informed analysis of the grammar and lexicon of Kam, thereby advancing our understanding of the grammatical structure of Niger-Congo languages. This description is based on novel linguistic data collected in the Kam community between 2016 and 2018. There are six parts: (1) introduction, (2) phonological analysis, (3) nominal morphosyntax, (4) verbal morphosyntax, (5) clausal morphosyntax and (6) a sample of text and a lexicon with approx. 1,300 entries. Features of Kam that may be particularly interesting for African and general linguistics include labial-velar stops kp and gb; a difference between prosodically strong and prosodically weak positions in prosodic stems; tonal morphology used for both derivation and inflection; the absence of noun classes or gender; logophoric pronominals; STAMP-morphs; multi-verb constructions; verbal reduplication strategies; clause-final negation and bipartite content interrogatives. The Kam community and their language are part of the linguistically and culturally diverse landscape of north-east and central-east Nigeria. Previous research classified Kam as an isolated language within the Adamawa sub-family of Niger-Congo, whose genealogical unity is no longer widely accepted. Therefore, the classification of Kam and other languages should be reviewed. While classification is not addressed in this thesis, it provides grammatical and lexical data indispensable for any comparison between Kam and other languages and lineages
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Sagna, Serge. "Formal and semantic properties of the Gújjolaay Eegimaa (a.k.a Banjal) nominal classification system." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2008. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28825/.

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Gujjolaay Eegimaa (G.E.), an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo phylum spoken in the Basse-Casamance area in Senegal, exhibits a system of nominal classification known as a "gender/ noun class system". In this type of nominal classification system which is prevalent in Niger-Congo languages, there is controversy as to whether the obligatory classification of all nouns into a finite number of classes has semantic motivations. In addition to the disputed issue of the semantic basis of the nominal classification, the formal criteria for assigning nouns into classes are also disputed in Joola languages and in G.E. In this PhD thesis, I propose an investigation of the formal and semantic properties of the nominal classification system of Gujjolaay Eegimaa (G.E). Based on cross-linguistic and language-specific research, I propose formal criteria whose application led to the discovery of fifteen noun classes in G.E. Here, I argue that the G.E. noun class system has semantic motivations. I show that some nouns in this language may be classified or categorized on the basis of shared properties as stipulated in the classical theory of categorization. However, most of the classification of the G.E. nouns is based on prototypicality and extension of such prototypes by family resemblance, chaining process, metaphor and metonymy, as argued in the prototype theory from cognitive semantics. The parameters of categorization that fruitfully account for the semantic basis of the G.E. nominal classification system are both universal and cultural-specific. Primary data constitutes the material used in this research and include lexical (including loanwords), textual as well as experimental data using picture stimuli. The collected data comprise different types of communicative events recorded in audio and video formats and also in written format through participant observation.
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Carter-Enyi, Aaron. "Contour Levels: An Abstraction of Pitch Space based on African Tone Systems." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461029477.

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Starwalt, Coleen Grace Anderson. "The acoustic correlates of ATR harmony in seven- and nine-vowel African languages A phonetic inquiry into phonological structure /." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1015.

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Books on the topic "Niger-Congo languages"

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Afeli, Kossi Antoine. Contributions pour une reforme orthographique de l'Ewe. Cape Town, South Africa: Centre for Advanced Sudies of African Society, 2007.

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Capo, Hounkpati B. C. DÓ LÓ aló ACYANGBE: (Proverbes en Gbe) Proverbs in Gbe. Cape Town, South Africa: Centre for Advanced Sudies of African Society, 2007.

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Raymond, Boyd, ed. Le système verbal dans les langues oubangiennes. München: LINCOM Europa, 1995.

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Campbell-Dunn, G. J. K. Sumerian comparative dictionary. Christchurch, N.Z: Penny Farthing Press, 2009.

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Campbell-Dunn, G. J. K. Sumerian comparative dictionary. Christchurch, N.Z: Penny Farthing Press, 2009.

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John, Bendor-Samuel, and Hartell Rhonda L, eds. The Niger-Congo languages: A classification and description of Africa's largest language family. Lanham: University Press of America, 1989.

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Campbell-Dunn, G. J. K. Towards a comparative grammar of Linear A and Niger-Congo. Christchurch, N.Z: Penny Farthing Press, 2005.

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Creissels, Denis. Description des langues négro-africaines et théorie syntaxique. Grenoble: ELLUG, Université Stendhal, 1991.

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Claudi, Ulrike. Die Stellung von Verb und Objekt in Niger-Kongo-Sprachen: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion historischer Syntax. Köln: Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 1993.

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Creissels, Denis. Aperçu sur les structures phonologiques des langues négro-africaines. Grenoble: Editions littéraires et linguistiques de l'Université Stendhal--Grenoble 3, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Niger-Congo languages"

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Pulleyblank, Douglas. "Niger-Kordofanian (Niger-Congo) Languages." In The World's Major Languages, 877–85. Third edition. | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2018] | “First edition published by Croom Helm 1987.”: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315644936-51.

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Bonvini, Emilio. "About 'Eating' in a few Niger-Congo languages." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 267–89. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.106.13bon.

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Atintono, Samuel Awinkene, Dorothy Agyepong, and Promise Kpoglu. "Chapter 3. A comparative study of the basic locative construction in Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi, and Tongugbe." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 74–98. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.03ati.

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The chapter examines the basic locative construction (BLC) in three Niger Congo languages spoken in Ghana: Gurenɛ, Asante-Twi and Tongugbe, and discusses the semantics of the verbs that occur within the construction. Using data elicited with a similar set of locative verb stimuli, we demonstrate that the languages differ in the number and type of verbs that occur in the BLC. While Asante-Twi and Gurenɛ employ mostly positional verbs in the BLC, Tongugbe, similar to the other Ewe varieties, uses the locative predicate. Constructionally, the BLCs in all three languages are similar, that is, each of the languages instantiate the schema NP V PostP.
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Kotowski, Ryan J. S., Enoch O. Aboh, and Jan Don. "Chapter 7. The eventive functional sequence." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 189–221. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.07kot.

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The Kwa languages (Niger-Congo) of West Africa are well-known for displaying Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs). The literature on SVCs contains various definitions of the phenomenon and recapitulates the general observation that these constructions express fine-grained information about a complex event and the participants involved therein. This paper seeks to shed light on the structure that underlies Take and Give SVCs in Gungbe, a Gbe (Kwa) language spoken in Benin and Nigeria. The examples discussed in the paper demonstrate how Gungbe is able to employ SVCs to encode specific details about the eventive structure. The proposed analysis further sheds light on elements which were classified in the Kwa literature as ‘verbid’ (cf. Ansre 1966) for their ambiguous status between adpositions and lexical verbs. It is argued that the ambiguity reduces to the nature of roots and their functions in Gungbe: the same root can occupy different grammatical functions.
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Hellwig, Birgit. "Chapter 9. Caused accompanied motion in a direction." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 238–62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.09hel.

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The concepts bring and take belong to a semantic domain that can be characterized as events of caused accompanied motion in a direction. This contribution investigates the expression of this domain in Katla (Niger-Congo; Sudan) within a corpus of naturalistic data, shows that Katla employs complex expressions (where motion, caused motion and possession verbs combine with venitive and comitative derivational extensions), and relates these findings to recent typological research in this domain. The contribution is set within a research tradition that investigates cross-linguistic lexicalization patterns.
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Hyman, Larry M. "Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 103–26. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.161.10hym.

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Bashir, Abeer M. A., and Osman M. O. Ali. "Chapter 10. Tagoi birth names." In Culture and Language Use, 253–76. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/clu.23.10bas.

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Among many groups of the Nuba Mountains, personal names denote birth order, i.e., whether a child is the first, second, third, etc., among their siblings. Tagoi, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the north-eastern Nuba Mountains, shows such a naming system. Tagoi children receive another name, used in official documents and associated with certain birth practices. Over time, these non-order-based names have been adapted to an Islamic/Arabic naming system based on days of the week. Birth-order names were retained for some time after Islamization and Arabicization, but factors including urbanization and education have led to the gradual loss of both types of names. This paper describes the Tagoi naming system in its sociohistorical context and considers these names from linguistic and anthropological perspectives.
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Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., and Gertrud Schneider-Blum. "Chapter 2. Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima." In Studies in Language Companion Series, 44–73. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.235.02dim.

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Tima (Niger-Congo, Sudan), has three copulae playing a central role in locative expressions. The number-sensitive copulae, ŋ̀kɔ́ ‘cop:sg’ and ɲ̀cɛ́ ‘cop:pl’, primarily link two non-verbal phrases. The third copula, ŋ̀kwíyʌ̀ ‘cop’, indicates existence or availability. We discuss the distribution of these copulae in their core functions, in their extended uses as tense-aspect markers and consecutive marker, thereby illustrating instances of heterosemy, as well as their relation to focus marking. Furthermore, five positional verbs play a role in locative expressions: hɘ́làk ‘stay, remain, reside’, hʊ̀ndɔ́nɔ́/hɘ̀ndáná ‘sit (down)’, dʊ́wà ‘stand (up)’, (k)ʌ́t̪ù ‘lie (down)’, and túùh ‘hang (up) (plur)’. The broad use of these verbs is also investigated, particularly in combination with specifying adverbs in order to describe collocational probabilities and restrictions.
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Boyd, Raymond. "A “reflexive benefactive” in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family)." In Typological Studies in Language, 331–50. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.92.14boy.

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Sim, Galina. "Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction, Paris, LLACAN, September 1–3, 2016." In Journal of Language Relationship, edited by Vladimir Dybo, Kirill Babaev, and Anna Dybo, 207–10. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463237745-009.

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Conference papers on the topic "Niger-Congo languages"

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Gibbon, Dafydd, and Eno-Abasi Urua. "Morphotonology for TTS in Niger-congo languages." In Speech Prosody 2006. ISCA: ISCA, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2006-171.

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Zerbian, Sabine, Susanne Genzel, and Frank Kügler. "Experimental work on prosodically-marked information structure in selected african languages (afroasiatic and Niger-congo)." In Speech Prosody 2010. ISCA: ISCA, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2010-86.

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