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Matthias Brenzinger, Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012, 658 pp.

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Piłaszewicz S.
Studies in African Languages and Cultures
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2012
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issue 46
138-139
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A review of a book by Matthias Brenzinger, Anne-Maria Fehn (eds.) "Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009".
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Semantics of the ta construction in Basse Mandinka

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Andrason A.
Linguistica Copernicana
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2011
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issue 2(6)
223-246
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The present paper provides an analysis of the meaning conveyed by the ‘ta construction’ – a verbal category derived by means of the suffix -ta in a regional variety of Gambian Mandinka spoken in Basse and neighboring villages. The evidence demonstrates that the formation may be employed as a present, past and future perfect, a definite past tense (perfective, simple and durative), a stative and a present tense. The form in -ta is likewise used in conditional protases with a modal shade of meaning. In such cases, it conveys the idea of real future possibility or introduces unreal counterfactual hypothetical situations. As far as text linguistic properties are concerned, the construction appears both in discourse (dialogues) and narration (written and recited). It is a principal form of the narrative foreground, being nevertheless able to introduce background information.
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Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia dogłębną analizę znaczeń charakteryzujących konstrukcję czasownikową języka mandinka, tworzoną przez dodanie do tematu czasownika przyrostka -ta (tzw. ta construction). Przedstawione dane - zebrane podczas prac badawczych na terenie miasta Basse i jego okolic we wschodniej Gambii pozwalają stwierdzić, że formacja ta może funkcjonować jako perfektum (czasu teraźniejszego, przeszłego oraz przyszłego), czas przeszły (dokonany, prosty - tzw. praeteritum - oraz duratywny), statyczny (właściwy i z implikacjami rezultatywnymi) oraz czas teraźniejszy prosty. W użyciu pasywnym opisywana konstrukcja ma zarówno znaczenie dynamiczne, jak i statyczne. Forma na ta jest ponadto używana w poprzedniku (protasis) zdań warunkowych, gdzie - będąc silnie nacechowana walorem modalnym - wprowadza wydarzenia przyszłe, ewentualne i możliwe bądź też sytuacje hipotetyczne, nierealne i kontrfaktyczne. Ponadto w odniesieniu do wartości tekstowych formacja pojawia się zarówno w dyskursie, jak i w narracji (pisanej lub recytowanej). We fragmentach narracyjnych badana konstrukcja wprowadza zwykle wydarzenia należące do pierwszego planu (foreground) historii, będąc jednak w stanie dostarczać informacji drugoplanowych (background).
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Dangla-Migama and Afro-Asiatic IV: Root initial *ḅ- with C2 sonants

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Takács G.
Lingua Posnaniensis
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2022
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vol. 64
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issue 1
97-134
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The paper is a new contribution to revealing the Afro-Asiatic heritage in the lexical root stock of the Dangla-Migama group of Chadic languages by means of inter-branch comparison primarily using, among others, the ancient Egypto-Semitic etymological evidence.
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Angas-Sura etymologies X

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Takács G.
Lingua Posnaniensis
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2022
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vol. 64
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issue 1
73-96
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The paper as part of a long-running series is devoted to the etymological analysis of a new segment (namely that with initial dental *z-) of the Angas-Sura root stock, a small group of modern languages remotely and ultimately akin to pharaonic Egyptian and the well-known Semitic languages or Twareg in the Sahara etc. Doing so, I wish to continue the noble tradition initiated by J.H. Greenberg (1958), the founding father of modern Afro-Asiatic comparative linguistics (along with I.M. Diakonoff), who was the first scholar ever to have established by Neo-Grammarian the methods regular consonantal correspondences between Angas-Sura and ancient Egyptian in his pioneering (painfully isolated) paper on the ancient trichotomy of the word-initial labials in both branches. Nowadays our chances in following this path are substantially more favourable being equipped with our gigantic comparative root catalogue system of the Egyptian etymologies ever published (ongoing since 1994) and of the Afro-Asiatic parental lexical stock (ongoing since 1999).
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Angas-Sura etymologies XI

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Takács G.
Lingua Posnaniensis
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2022
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vol. 64
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issue 2
49-76
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The paper as part of a long-running series is devoted to the etymological analysis of a new segment (namely that with initial dental *z-) of the Angas-Sura root stock, a small group of modern languages remotely and ultimately akin to pharaonic Egyptian and the well-known Semitic languages or Twareg in the Sahara etc. Doing so, I wish to continue the noble tradition initiated by J.H. Greenberg (1958), the founding father of modern Afro-Asiatic comparative linguistics (along with I.M. Diakonoff), who was the first scholar ever to have established by Neo-Grammarian the methods regular consonantal correspondences between Angas-Sura and ancient Egyptian in his pioneering (painfully isolated) paper on the ancient trichotomy of the word-initial labials in both branches. Nowadays our chances in following this path are substantially more favourable being equipped with our gigantic comparative root catalogue system of the Egyptian etymologies ever published (ongoing since 1994) and of the Afro-Asiatic parental lexical stock (ongoing since 1999).
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Poznanie języka jako fundament pracy misyjnej. Prace ojców białych nad gramatyką języka bemba

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Madej M.
Annales Missiologici Posnanienses
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2021
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vol. 26
61-75
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It was always important for the Church, that a communication between the preacher and the listener was the best; the former must be understood in such a way that the latter is moved by the words of the Gospel. Before the arrival of Europeans in Central Africa (in late nineteenth century), the Bemba people did not know any written form, and their language only had a spoken form. It was with the arrival of Europeans on the Bemba lands that the era of learning, writing, studying and classifying the language of this ethnic group began. The first Europeans to reach the Bemba area were the missionaries, the White Fathers, and it was they who, after beginning their missionary activity, began to study the Bemba language. This article presents the achievements of the White Fathers in this field and tries to explain how the process of learning the Bemba language by the White Fathers was carried out.
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