diff --git a/content/article/blench.md b/content/article/blench.md index 7cb688a..8e40e98 100644 --- a/content/article/blench.md +++ b/content/article/blench.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Morphological Evidence for the Coherence of East Sudanic" -author: "Roger M. Blench" +authors: ["rogermblench.md"] abstract: "East Sudanic is the largest and most complex branch of Nilo-Saharan. First mooted by Greenberg in 1950, who included seven branches, it was expanded in his 1963 publication to include Ama [=Nyimang] and Temein and also Kuliak, not now considered part of East Sudanic. However, demonstrating the coherence of East Sudanic and justifying an internal structure for it have remained problematic. The only significant monograph on this topic is Bender1 which uses largely lexical evidence. Bender proposed a subdivision into Ek and En languages, based on pronouns. Most subsequent scholars have accepted his Ek cluster, consisting of Nubian, Nara, Ama, and Taman, but the En cluster (Surmic, E. Jebel, Temein, Daju, Nilotic) is harder to substantiate. Rilly2 has put forward strong arguments for the inclusion of the extinct Meroitic language as coordinate with Nubian. In the light of these difficulties, the paper explores the potential for morphology to provide evidence for the coherence of East Sudanic. The paper reviews its characteristic tripartite number-marking system, consisting of singulative, plurative, and an unmarked middle term. These are associated with specific segments, the singulative in *t-* and plurative in *k-* as well as a small set of other segments, characterized by complex allomorphy. These are well preserved in some branches, fragmentary in others, and seem to have vanished completely in the Ama group, leaving only traces now fossilized in Dinik stems. The paper concludes that East Sudanic does have a common morphological system, despite its internal lexical diversity. However, this data does not provide any evidence for the unity of the En languages, and it is therefore suggested that East Sudanic be analyzed as consisting of a core of four demonstrably related languages, and five parallel branches which have no internal hierarchy." -keywords: "East Sudanic, Nilo-Saharan, comparative linguistics" +keywords: ["East Sudanic", "Nilo-Saharan", "comparative linguistics"] --- # Introduction diff --git a/content/article/jakobi.md b/content/article/jakobi.md index ecba49b..c846e18 100644 --- a/content/article/jakobi.md +++ b/content/article/jakobi.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Nubian Verb Extensions and Some Nyima Correspondences" -author: "Angelika Jakobi" +authors: ["angelikajakobi.md"] abstract: "Having a historical-comparative approach this paper is concerned with the reconstruction of some Proto-Nubian derivational morphemes comprising two causatives, two applicatives, and two suffixes deriving verbal plural stems, as well as a now defunct causative prefix. When discussing applicatives in the Nile Nubian languages, it is argued that they involve converbs, i.e., dependent verbs, which in Old Nubian and Nobiin are marked by the suffix *-a.* This verbal suffix is considered to be distinct from the homophonous predicate marker *-a* which occurs as a clitic on various other hosts. The paper also points out that some of the Nubian verb extensions correspond to Nyima (mostly Ama) extensions, thus providing strong evidence of the genetic relationship between Nubian and Nyima. Perhaps the most striking evidence of Nubian–Ama relations and the coherence of the Nilo-Saharan phylum as a whole is provided by the archaic Nilo-Saharan **ɪ-.* The reflexes of this prefix in Nubian and Ama, along with the archaic Nubian prefix **m-,* which serves as verbal negation marker, supports Dimmendaal’s hypothesis that these languages have undergone a restructuring process from originally prefixing to predominantly suffixing languages." -keywords: "Nubian, comparative linguistics, Nyima, North Eastern Sudanic" +keywords: ["Nubian", "comparative linguistics", "Nyima", "North Eastern Sudanic"] --- # Introduction {#1} diff --git a/content/article/norton.md b/content/article/norton.md index 6623321..a26357d 100644 --- a/content/article/norton.md +++ b/content/article/norton.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Ama Verbs in Comparative Perspective" -author: "Russell Norton" +authors: ["russelnorton.md"] abstract: "Ama verbs are comparable with Nubian and other related languages in their clause-final syntax, CVC root shape, and some affixes. However, there is also considerable innovation in adjoined relative clauses, a shift from number to aspect marking traced by *T/K* morphology, and other changes in the order and meaning of affixes. These developments show a unique trend of concretization of core clause constituents, and internal growth in the complexity of verbs in isolation from other languages. On the other hand, Ama’s stable distributive pluractional represents a wider Eastern Sudanic category. The late loss of pronominal subject marking supports a hypothesis that the Ama language was used for inter-group communication with Kordofan Nubians." -keywords: "Ama, Northern East Sudanic, comparative linguistics, Nilo-Saharan, Nyimang, Afitti" +keywords: ["Ama", "Northern East Sudanic", "comparative linguistics", "Nilo-Saharan", "Nyimang", "Afitti"] --- # Preliminaries diff --git a/content/article/rilly.md b/content/article/rilly.md index f307baf..8c6871e 100644 --- a/content/article/rilly.md +++ b/content/article/rilly.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Personal Markers in Meroitic" -author: "Claude Rilly" +authors: ["clauderilly.md"] abstract: "" -keywords: "Meroitic, Meroe, Kush, Napata, pronouns, Egyptian, decipherment, verbal morphology, pronominal morphology, person, comparative linguistics, Old Nubian, Nobiin, Andaandi, Ama, Nara, Taman, Mattokki, Karko" +keywords: ["Meroitic", "Meroe", "Kush", Napata", "pronouns", "Egyptian", "decipherment", "verbal morphology", "pronominal morphology", "person", "comparative linguistics", "Old Nubian", "Nobiin", "Andaandi", "Ama", "Nara", "Taman", "Mattokki", "Karko"] --- # Introduction {#intro} diff --git a/content/article/starostin.md b/content/article/starostin.md index 2f47675..7879444 100644 --- a/content/article/starostin.md +++ b/content/article/starostin.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "Restoring “Nile-Nubian”: How To Balance Lexicostatistics and Etymology in Historical Research on Nubian Languages" -author: "George Starostin" +authors: ["georgestarostin.md"] abstract: " " -keywords: "comparative linguistics, Nilo-Saharan, glottochronology, lexicostatistics, Nubian" +keywords: ["comparative linguistics", "Nilo-Saharan", "glottochronology", "lexicostatistics", "Nubian"] --- # Introduction diff --git a/content/article/vangervenoei.md b/content/article/vangervenoei.md index a669435..69c5e25 100644 --- a/content/article/vangervenoei.md +++ b/content/article/vangervenoei.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- title: "A Brief History of Northern East Sudanic Linguistics" -author: "Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei" +authors: ["vincentwjvangervenoei.md"] abstract: "" -keywords: "" +keywords: [""] --- # The First Hints diff --git a/content/author/angelikajakobi.md b/content/author/angelikajakobi.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32771d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/angelikajakobi.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Angelika Jakobi +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/author/clauderilly.md b/content/author/clauderilly.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d92e20a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/clauderilly.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Claude Rilly +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/author/georgestarostin.md b/content/author/georgestarostin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d93147f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/georgestarostin.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: George Starostin +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/author/rogermblench.md b/content/author/rogermblench.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cdec95 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/rogermblench.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Roger M. Blench +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/author/russelnorton.md b/content/author/russelnorton.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b650827 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/russelnorton.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Russel Norton +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/author/vincentwjvangervenoei.md b/content/author/vincentwjvangervenoei.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c6174c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/author/vincentwjvangervenoei.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +title: Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei +--- + +# Biography + +Something about the author. \ No newline at end of file