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The formation of existential constructions in Western Serengeti – a micro-comparative exploration of variation and change 塞伦盖蒂西部存在结构的形成——变异与变化的微观比较探索

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.26.0.3289087

R. Bernander, Antti Laine

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The proto-West-Coastal Bantu velar merger 原始西海岸班图velar合并

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.26.0.3289089

Sara Pacchiarotti, K. Bostoen

引用次数: 8

Untangling the West-Coastal Bantu mess: identification, geography and phylogeny of the Bantu B50-80 languages 解开班图西海岸混乱:班图B50-80语言的识别、地理和系统发育

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.25.0.3287234

Sara Pacchiarotti, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, K. Bostoen

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引用次数: 12

Anthony Traill and the holistic approach to Kalahari Basin sound design Anthony Traill和卡拉哈里盆地声音设计的整体方法

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285491

Tom Güldemann, Hirosi Nakagawa

引用次数: 1

Palatalization in double dagger'Amkoe 在双匕首'Amkoe舌化

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285490

Linda Gerlach

引用次数: 0

Cycles of negation in Rangi and Mbugwe 兰吉和姆布韦的否定周期

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2015-12-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.21.0.3122582

Hannah Gibson, Vera Wilhelmsen

引用次数: 7

L’impersonnalité dans les langues de la région sénégambienne 塞内加尔地区语言中的非人格

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.21.0.3122578

D. Creissels, Sokhna Bao-Diop, Alain-Christian Bassène, M. Cissé, Alexander Cobbinah, E. Dieye, D. Ndao, Sylvie Nouguier-Voisin, N. Quint, Marie Renaudier, A. Sall, Guillaume Segerer

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引用次数: 10

The First Known Grammar of (Kahenda-Mbaka) Kimbundu (Lisbon 1697) and Álvares' ars minor (Lisbon 1573) (Kahenda-Mbaka) Kimbundu(1697年里斯本语)和Álvares' ars minor(1573年里斯本语)的第一个已知语法

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.3406/AFLIN.2015.1046

Gonçalo Fernandes

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引用次数: 3

A surface constraint in Xitsonga: *Li 西松加的一个曲面约束:*李

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.3406/aflin.2015.1042

W. Bennett, L. Seunghun

引用次数: 4

Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster 介绍Kikongo语群的最新系统发育分类

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Africana Linguistica Pub Date : 2015-01-01 DOI: 10.2143/AL.21.0.3122579

G. D. Schryver, R. Grollemund, S. Branford, K. Bostoen

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引用次数: 29