The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa

The Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo Reconstruction

Abstract Basing himself largely on areal and typological arguments, Güldemann (2010) claims that ne

Areal patterns in the vowel systems of the Macro-Sudan Belt

International audience This paper investigates the areal distribution of vowel system

A typological survey of STAMP morphology and phonology in the Macro-Sudan Belt

The distribution of advanced tongue root harmony and interior vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt

International audience In this paper we investigate the distribution of vowel systems

The lexical distribution of labial-velar stops is a window into the linguistic prehistory of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa

International audience Using a very large lexical database and generalized additive m

The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops as a window on the linguistic prehistory of northern sub-Saharan Africa

International audience Cross-linguistically, labial-velar stops are rather rare, but