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The origins of Kushi in oral narratives

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Batic G. C.
Studies in African Languages and Cultures
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2017
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issue 51
5-22
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The Kushi are a relatively small Chadic-speaking group settled in north-eastern Nigeria. Reconstructing the migratory movements that brought the Kushi to their present area is a daunting task. Oral history is one of the most valuable tools we can turn to in order to understand the origins of Kushi as well as the several ethnic and linguistic components that contributed to the merging of the present-day community. A critical reading of the historical events as narrated by a Kushi speaker will show that Kushi is the result of a series of migrations undertaken by different groups over a certain period of time, thus contrasting with the default narrative of an indivisible and linear migration coming from east. Apart from its historical significance, the text – supplied with interlinear analysis – is intended to contribute to the documentation and description of the Kushi language.
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Massnahmen zur Dokumentation des Niedersorbischen

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Bartels H.
Slavia Occidentalis
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2012
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issue 69
7-22
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Lower Sorbian is one of the most endangered European languages. The article states the necessity and urgency of a comprehensive documentation of this language and gives an overview of respective projects undertaken at the Lower Sorbian department of the Sorbian Institute. Apart from the building of text corpora representing the literary language as well as dialectal forms of Lower Sorbian, lexicographic projects are also described.
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Time-bounded Fieldwork “Ex-situ” or On Fieldwork Without Unlearning Another Language

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Siegl F.
Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics
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2021
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vol. 12
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issue 1
53-80
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This essay discusses two episodes of temporally bounded consultant work on Tundra Yukaghir (isolate) and Tuvan (Turkic) and attempts to bridge, or at least narrow the gap between reflexive anthropological thinking (e.g., Geertz, 1973, 1988) and reasoning about linguistic fieldwork. In this respect, the essay is a follow-up on Siegl (2018), which analyzed experiences from fieldwork in moribund speech communities. Similar to Siegl (2018), this essay also focuses more on data gathering and (personal) challenges in the field and less on presenting polished research results; therefore, references to literature on linguistic fieldwork are minimized (this literature was covered in detail in Siegl, 2010, 2018). Given that the process of data gathering is usually blended out in research reports, a second aim of this essay is to offer insights on consultant/fieldwork in action so that this process becomes more transparent and can be evaluated by those without primary research interests in this sub-discipline of linguistics.
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Záhadný morfém [-t] a slovesná paradigmata v sarkézské normanštině

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Neudörfl M.
Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology)
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2020
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vol. 102
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issue 2
194-217
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In this article, we present one of the principal findings in the field of Sark Norman (or Sarkese) verbal morphology. The data on which the present article is based were obtained during three seasons of field research on the island of Sark in 2016, 2018, and 2019, with the help of the last four native speakers of Sark Norman, and via analysis of now lost idiolects recorded in the 20th century. We focus primarily on the verbal paradigms of the present and preterite indicative and the related system of desinences with regard to 1SG. In the first part, after an introduction to the context, we summarize the occurrence of the morpheme [-t] in 1SG verbal forms, which, although recorded in several secondary sources in the past, had never been systematically analysed prior to the present study. In the following part, we compare documented conjugation patterns with the verbal paradigms presented in Liddicoat (1994), demonstrating fundamental differences in our respective observations. Finally, for each of the main verbal groups and several subgroups, we can present at least a partial paradigm based on our data, to illustrate where and when the morpheme [-t] occurs as a standard 1SG verbal desinence in Sark Norman.
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