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The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops as a window on the linguistic prehistory of northern sub-Saharan Africa
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In: DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history" ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01676446 ; DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history", Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jul 2017, Jena, Germany (2017)
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The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops as a window on the linguistic prehistory of northern sub-Saharan Africa
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In: DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history" ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01676446 ; DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history", Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jul 2017, Jena, Germany (2017)
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The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops in northern sub-Saharan Africa and its historical implications
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In: Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481552 ; Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Mar 2016, Berkeley, United States (2016)
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Stem-initial accent and C-emphasis prosody in north-western Bantu
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In: 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481547 ; 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Jun 2016, Helsinki, Finland (2016)
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Implications of the lexical frequency of labial-velar stops in northern sub-Saharan Africa for Niger-Congo reconstruction
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In: Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction (2nd International Congress) ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481574 ; Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction (2nd International Congress), Sep 2016, Paris, France (2016)
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Stem-initial accent and C-emphasis prosody in north-western Bantu
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In: Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481521 ; Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Mar 2016, Berkeley, United States (2016)
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The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops in northern sub-Saharan Africa and its historical implications
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In: Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481552 ; Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Mar 2016, Berkeley, United States (2016)
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Stem-initial accent and C-emphasis prosody in north-western Bantu
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In: 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481547 ; 6th International Conference on Bantu Languages, Jun 2016, Helsinki, Finland (2016)
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Stem-initial accent and C-emphasis prosody in north-western Bantu
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In: Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481521 ; Workshop "Areal features and linguistic reconstruction in Africa". 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Mar 2016, Berkeley, United States (2016)
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Implications of the lexical frequency of labial-velar stops in northern sub-Saharan Africa for Niger-Congo reconstruction
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In: Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction (2nd International Congress) ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481574 ; Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction (2nd International Congress), Sep 2016, Paris, France (2016)
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Areal features in northern sub-Saharan Africa: introduction
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In: 8th World Congress of African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481417 ; 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Aug 2015, Kyoto, Japan (2015)
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Areal features in northern sub-Saharan Africa: introduction
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In: 8th World Congress of African Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481417 ; 8th World Congress of African Linguistics, Aug 2015, Kyoto, Japan (2015)
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International audience ; In this introductory paper for the workshop on areal phenomena in northern sub-Saharan Africa, we will focus on progress in the identification and explanation of areal features since Güldemann (2008) and Clements & Rialland (2008). On the one hand, we will add a diachronic perspective to some of the known features, such as the predominance of clause-final negation and the presence of labial-velars. We will show that the former is due to the presence in the languages of the area of a more general grammatical category of clause-final markers whose core function is the expression of intersubjective meanings, combined with a tendency for negative markers to grammaticalise from such kind of intersubjective markers, since negation is typically one of the situations where the speaker’s assertive authority is at stake. For the latter, we will point out meaningful differences in frequency and phonotactic distribution of labial-velar stops within the area. Thus, labial-velar stops tend to be restricted to stem-initial position and show a preference for the following vowel to be low and non-front, which is indicative of their historical sources and the factors that are responsible for their frequent emergence in the languages of the area. In addition, although labial-velars are found throughout northern sub-Saharan Africa, there appear to be three zones where their frequency within the lexicon is particularly high, viz. a coastal area from Sierra-Leone to the Cameroon border, some Ubangian languages in Central Africa, and Moru-Mangbetu languages in the north-east of the DRC. Arguably, these three zones are local labial-velar hotbeds.On the other hand, we will identify a number of additional candidate areal features, some of which are not easy to retrieve from descriptive grammars. Thus, we will present our first findings on stem-initial consonant length in a number of north-western Bantu languages, showing with instrumental data that stem-initial consonants become longer as one moves towards the Macro-Sudan belt. We will also add a number of morphosyntactic features, such as possessee-like qualifiers and the use of short construct forms of nouns.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; African languages; areal linguistics; historical linguistics; language contact; northern sub-Saharan Africa
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481417
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Three areal phenomena in northern sub-Saharan Africa: clause-final negation, possessee-like qualifiers and stem-initial consonant length
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In: Workshop "Typologie: phonologie et syntaxe" ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481237 ; Workshop "Typologie: phonologie et syntaxe", Nov 2012, Paris, France (2012)
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Three areal phenomena in northern sub-Saharan Africa: clause-final negation, possessee-like qualifiers and stem-initial consonant length
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In: Workshop "Typologie: phonologie et syntaxe" ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01481237 ; Workshop "Typologie: phonologie et syntaxe", Nov 2012, Paris, France (2012)
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