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Radical analyticity and radical pro-drop scenarios of diachronic change in East and mainland Southeast Asia, West Africa and Pidgins and Creoles
2020
Abstract The paucity or absence of inflectional morphology (radical analyticity) and the omission of verbal arguments with no concomitant agreement (radical pro-drop) are well-known characteristics of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages (EMSEA). Both of them have a special status in typology and linguistic theory. Radical analyticity is known under the term of ‘morphological isolation’ and has recently been described as ‘diachronically anomalous’ (McWhorter 2016), while radical pro-drop is a theoretical challenge since Rizzi (1986). The present paper offers an alternative view on these characteristics based on data from EMSEA languages, radically analytic West African languages and …
Du verbe instrumental dans la musique subsaharienne
2021
Sub-Saharan music results from the spoken language/instrumental language relation, directed by an oral culture. In this culture, these languages transmit ? beyond their singularities ? messages thanks to either a coded signal known by the linguistic community or previously defined among a group of individuals, or is used as a true meta-language copied on the articulated and usual language used every day. Here, an instrumental musical speech can then imitate and reproduce the tonal inflexions of the language to make its matter understandable. This fact is the natural result of a strong interaction and interrelation between the spoken language and the music as well as the conception that the …
Un análisis de desarrollo dual : el caso de la República Sudafricana
1998
La Mission ethnographique et lingüistique Dakar-Djobouti (1931-1933) et le fantôme de L'Afrique
2009
Auspiciada por el Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad de París y por el Museo de Etnografía del Trocadero, la Misión etnográfica y lingüística Dakar-Djibouti inauguró la era de las grandes investigaciones de campo de la etnografía francesa. Dirigida por Marcel Griaule, futuro primer catedrático de etnología de la Sorbona, y ocasión de la escritura de L’Afrique Fantôme de Michel Leiris, la expedición atravesó el continente africano desde el Atlántico hasta el mar Rojo cruzando los actuales Senegal, Malí, Burkina Faso, Níger, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Camerún, República Centroafricana, República del Congo, Sudán, Etiopía, Eritrea y la República de Djibouti. En su recorrido de veinte mil kiló…
La misión etnográfica y lingüística Dakar-Djibouti (1931-1933) y el fantasma de África
2009
Auspiciada por el Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad de París y por el Museo de Etnografía del Trocadero, la Misión etnográfica y lingüística Dakar-Djibouti inauguró la era de las grandes investigaciones de campo de la etnografía francesa. Dirigida por Marcel Griaule, futuro primer catedrático de etnología de la Sorbona, y ocasión de la escritura de L’Afrique Fantôme de Michel Leiris, la expedición atravesó el continente africano desde el Atlántico hasta el mar Rojo cruzando los actuales Senegal, Malí, Burkina Faso, Níger, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Camerún, República Centroafricana, República del Congo, Sudán, Etiopía, Eritrea y la República de Djibouti. En su recorrido de veinte mil kiló…
Profetismo político, milenarismo y creencias mesiánicas en el último periodo del reinado de Fernando el Católico (1500-1516)
2019
This study analyzes the presence of messianic and millennial beliefs in the last period of Ferdinand the Catholic?s reign. For this and after a brief state of the art, we analyze the use of the Christian prophecy of the millennium in speeches and memorials arising from the war in Naples, the North African campaign and the Pisan schism.
Beyond Lampedusa: Africa Meets Europe / Para Lá de Lampedusa: A África Encontra a Europa
2013
The volume, resulting from a photograph exhibit that travelled the globe (Portugal, China, USA, Nigeria, Italy, etc.), offers a miscellaneous portrayal of the history of African photography and its influence on non-African imaginings of Africa and the African diaspora in all its diversity. My essay comments on the photographic representation of the black body in Italy in both colonial and postcolonial times.
Development Studies in Tanzania: Historical Trajectory and Future Visions
2018
The chapter discusses the history, dilemmas and future visions of Development Studies in Tanzania, especially from the perspective of Institute of Development Studies in the University of Dar es Salaam. It shows how in the 1970s Development Studies played a significant role in the consolidation of state ideology of African socialism among university students, and since then, has gradually evolved into a recognized discipline with MA and PhD programmes. Over the years, the discipline has dealt with dilemmas related to its multidisciplinary nature, state ideologies, international donor agendas and the changing demands concerning academic publications. Recently, Development Studies in Tanzania…
The African Legal Support Facility as a Tool against Vulture Funds
2012
The article describes the action of vulture funds in enforcing sovereign debts against countries and the tools adopted to address the issue.
Industrialization Strategies and Regional Actors
2021
Against the backdrop of the partly normative, partly empirical policy framework, the major regional industrial policy documents of the African Union, EAC, ECOWAS, SACU and SADC are examined as to their applicability. The empirical cases of the West African dairy and textile value chains are used to discuss the difficulties of regional priority-setting. The precise roles of (a) regional financial institutions, (b) regional development aid, including the panoply of ‘private sector development’ (PSD) projects and (c) regional business associations are defined. A concise summary of the essentials of common industrial policy concludes the chapter.