Insights into Nilo-Saharan language, history and culture

INHALT Preface Suzan Alamin Mubarak: An Initial Description of Laggori Noun Morphology and Noun Phrase Adelino Amargira: Derivational Forms and the Nature of Modifiers in Tennet Abeer Bashir: Morphophonemic Alternations in Jumjum Number Formation Sergio Baldi: Arabic Loanwords Entered in African Languages through Kanuri Herman Bell: Birgid Nubian – Recording a Nearly Extinct Language Ali Obeid Birema: The Deviation of the Nubian Language of Kadero into Sudanese Colloquial Arabic Roger Blench: The Kadu Languages and their Affiliation: Between Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic Pascal Boyeldieu: Reflexes of a Labiovelar Series in Central Sudanic Rihab Yahia Dafalla: A Phonological Comparison in the Katcha-Kadugli Language Group of the Nuba Mountains Edward Hall: The Tonal Behaviour of One Class of Singular-forming Nouns in the Kamda Language Khaliifa Jabr el-Dar: Towards a General Orthography of the Ajang Languages Marcus Jaeger: Discovering Linguistic Differences between Kenuzi and Dongolawi using Computational Linguistics and Lexicographical Methods Angelika Jakobi: The Loss of Syllable-Final Proto-Nubian Consonants Nicky de Jong: The Verbal Matrix in Didinga James Lokuuda Kadanya: Noun Derivation System in Toposa Eileen Kilpatrick: Pronoun Sets in the Moru-Ma’di Languages Constance Kutsch-Lojenga: The Role of Tone in Lendu Locatives Richard A. Lobban: Toward the Decipherment of Meroitic – The Case of the Kalabsha Inscription Robert Guy McKee: The Meegye Connective bhe as a Discourse Developmental Marker Farid M. A. Mekkawi: Comparisons of Nilotic Nubians and Kordofanian Nuba in Kinship Terms and other Cultural Components Pierre Nougayrol: Tones and Verb Classes in Bongo Suleiman Norein Osman: Phonology of the Zaghawa Language in Sudan Eva Rothmaler: The Structure of Place Names in Borno (Northern Nigeria) Timothy M. Stirtz: Possession of Alienable and Inalienable Nouns in Gaahmg Anne Storch: Aspect and Evidentiality in Luwo Christine Waag: The Marker _si in Fur Marginals: Richard A. Lobban: Some Issues in the Darfur Conflict The contributions to further Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquia have been published in the same series, see the following title data: “Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics. Proceedings of the 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, August 22-25, 2001”, ISBN 978-3-89645-140-8. „Actes du Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne / Proceedings of the Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Nice, 24–29 August 1992“, ISBN 978-3-927620-72-8. “Nilo-Saharan - Models and Descriptions“, ISBN 978-3-89645-665-6. “Nilo-Saharan Issues and Perspectives”, ISBN 978-3-89645-667-0. “Current Research in Nilo-Saharan – 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Vienna, 30th May–1st June 2019”, ISBN 978-3-89645-669-4