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View article: Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification
Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification Open
Moras play an important role in Lowland East Cushitic tone/accent assignment, but their contributions elsewhere in these languages’ grammars are not well established. This paper reports on the results of a survey of languages in this sub-g…
View article: The Fourteenth Amendment and University Intellectual Diversity
The Fourteenth Amendment and University Intellectual Diversity Open
Under current Supreme Court doctrine under the First Amendment, constitutional complaints that a state university has selected its faculty on ideological grounds—that it has “cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom”, in the language of…
View article: Analyzing the Creation and Use of Abbreviations in Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging Society Guidelines
Analyzing the Creation and Use of Abbreviations in Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging Society Guidelines Open
View article: What Makes an Opinion Originalist?
What Makes an Opinion Originalist? Open
View article: Coerced weight and its consequences in Bondu So verbs
Coerced weight and its consequences in Bondu So verbs Open
Bondu So (Dogon, Mali) displays [ATR] vowel harmony that interacts with root-final consonants. This study provides evidence from five verb paradigms to show that the quality of a stem suffix, and its absence or presence, is determined by a…
View article: A Call for Standardization of Abbreviation Usage Among Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging Society Guidelines
A Call for Standardization of Abbreviation Usage Among Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging Society Guidelines Open
View article: Moral Reality as a Guide to Original Meaning: In Defense of United States v. Fisher
Moral Reality as a Guide to Original Meaning: In Defense of United States v. Fisher Open
View article: Moraic mismatches in Somali phonology
Moraic mismatches in Somali phonology Open
This paper reconsiders the moraic status of coda consonants in Somali. It is argued that Somali joins a growing list of languages presenting a challenge to the Moraic Uniqueness Hypothesis. Several phenomena are explored that suggest that …
View article: Conditions on complex exponence: A case study of the Somali subject marker
Conditions on complex exponence: A case study of the Somali subject marker Open
This paper offers a novel analysis of the complex patterns of exponence exhibited by the Somali subject marker (MRK). Somali subject marking presents a typologically rare case of subtractive grammatical tone, and one in which an otherwise …
View article: Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers
Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers Open
This paper explores the nature and realization of tonal head marking (THM) in endocentric compounds headed by nominal stems in Mande. In Mande, a compound’s head is most often revalued by a tune or melody that expones the head/dependent re…
View article: There Is Something that Our Constitution Just Is
There Is Something that Our Constitution Just Is Open
View article: Problems With Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism
Problems With Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism Open
View article: Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs
Harmony and disharmony in Mbat (Jarawan Bantu) verbs Open
This paper is the first to describe aspects of the vocalic phonology of Mbat, a Jarawan Bantu language. Mbat exhibits a series of vowel-consonant interactions in its verbs that sometimes yield height harmony between a stem and suffixal vow…
View article: African Linguistics Across the Disciplines
African Linguistics Across the Disciplines Open
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its fac…
View article: Prosody and Intonation in Non-Bantu Niger-Congo Languages: An Annotated Bibliography
Prosody and Intonation in Non-Bantu Niger-Congo Languages: An Annotated Bibliography Open
Most linguists are well aware of the fact that data pertaining to languages spoken in Africa are often less readily available than information on languages spoken in Europe and some parts of Asia. This simple fact is one of the first and l…
View article: Tribes, Nations, States: Our Three Commerce Powers
Tribes, Nations, States: Our Three Commerce Powers Open
View article: What Has Athens to Do With Philadelphia?
What Has Athens to Do With Philadelphia? Open
View article: Seven Problems with Antidiscrimination Due Process
Seven Problems with Antidiscrimination Due Process Open
I explain seven problems with the view, suggested by Akhil Amar, Kurt Lash, and Ryan Williams, that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ ban on “depriv[ing] any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law” entails freed…
View article: State-Constitutional Departures From the Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment
State-Constitutional Departures From the Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Open
This article comprehensively canvasses cases in which states have declined to follow, as a matter of state law, cases from the United States Supreme Court interpreting the Fourth Amendment. Considering the 342 Fourth Amendment cases in Har…
View article: State-Constitutional Disagreement with the Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment
State-Constitutional Disagreement with the Supreme Court: The Fourth Amendment Open
View article: Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf)
Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf) Open
This paper provides an overview of selected aspects of the nominal, pronominal, and verbal morphology of the Marka (Merca) dialect of Af-Ashraaf, a Cushitic lan- guage variety spoken primarily in the city of Merca in southern Somalia, as w…
View article: A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony
A feature geometric approach to Bondu-so vowel harmony Open
Bondu-so (Dogon; Mali) vowel harmony exhibits both typologically and theoretically interesting properties. The language’s vocalic system displays surface patterns that implicate a ten-vowel system with an underlying [ATR] contrast at three…
View article: The History of the Loyal Denominator
The History of the Loyal Denominator Open
The exclusion of Southern representatives from Congress from December 1865 to the summer of 1868 raises problems for the Fourteenth Amendment’s compliance with both of Article V’s requirements for constitutional amendments. Congress (a) pr…
View article: Originalism as Faithfulness
Originalism as Faithfulness Open
View article: What is the Object of the Article VI Oath?
What is the Object of the Article VI Oath? Open
View article: Justice Gorsuch and Moral Reality
Justice Gorsuch and Moral Reality Open
Despite his advanced academic training in ethics, Justice Gorsuch has stoutly, repeatedly, and properly denied that officers today have any power to override the original meaning expressed in statutory or constitutional text in the name of…
View article: Compacité Tonale and the Bamana prosodic word domain
Compacité Tonale and the Bamana prosodic word domain Open
Compacite tonale (CT), also known as tonal compactness or the noun-compounding rule, is a tonological process active in Bamana (Bambara) and its close relatives. The melodic outcome of CT has been described, however a formal mechanism moti…
View article: Our Bipartisan Due Process Clause
Our Bipartisan Due Process Clause Open
What it meant to “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law” was very well-known to the men who proposed the Fourteenth Amendment: to take away life, liberty, or property without traditional judicial proce…
View article: A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande
A survey of word‑level replacive tonal patterns in Western Mande Open
Word‑level replacive tonal patterns are characteristic of the tonology of many Western Mande languages. Such patterns are explicitly discussed in extant descriptions of some languages but mentioned only in passing or not at all for others.…
View article: Moving ahead with replacive tone in Mande: A brief response to Konoshenko
Moving ahead with replacive tone in Mande: A brief response to Konoshenko Open
Introduction Stemming from my recent survey (Green 2018) upon which this discussion is based, it is now undoubtedly a fact that replacive tone is a robust structural characteristic witnessed across most Mande languages. Up until this surve…