Technological and cultural innovations as well as climate changes are thought to have
influenced the diffusion of major language phyla in sub-Saharan Africa. The most widespread …

Burkina Faso is located in the heart of West Africa and is a representative of the local
structured patterns of human variability. Here, different cultures and languages are found in a …

This paper investigates the outcomes of contact-induced language change in two neighboring
speech groups (Pana and Northern Samo) in an African multilingual setting. It describes …

The Social Network Analysis approach (SNA), also known as sociometrics or actor-network
analysis, investigates social structure on the basis of empirically recorded social ties …

The expression of non-verbal predication by a range of different copula constructions is a
common characteristic in Mande, as in many other Atlantic, Gur and Kwa languages in the …

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Since the beginning of Mande linguistics (MacBrair 1837: 31) the syntax of Mande languages
has attracted a great deal of attention. A wide range of polyfunctional morphemes and the …

This sketch is a versioned preliminary grammatical description of the Kyanga language
based on research and data from the Kyanga/Shanga DobeS project. It shall be regularly …

The implementation of enhanced municipal SWM systems is mandated with the Republic Act
9003, also called Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of the Philippines. Although RA …

In German linguistics and philology, language contact studies have focused mainly on the
post-war period of labour migration and varieties of “Gastarbeiterdeutsch.” More recent …