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NILOMORPH investigates the unique evolution of a linguistic system in East African languages, where multiple grammatical categories are expressed in a single syllable. The project aims to reconstruct this linguistic change and understand the cognitive motivations behind it.
NILOMORPH sets out to explain how linguistic evolution took a highly unexpected turn in one family of languages spoken in East Africa.
They have evolved a morphological system where multiple grammatical categories are expressed simultaneously within a single syllable, through subtle modulations of its phonological properties.
For example, in the Dinka language the word tèm, meaning ‘to cut’, can be made to mean ‘she cuts it for someone’ by lengthening the vowel, changing the low tone to high, an…
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Germany, Berlin
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United States, Eugene Or
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United States, DETROIT
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