Nadezhda Makeeva

Biographic Data

ID8914975
NAMENadezhda Makeeva
GIVEN NAMESNadezhda
FAMILY NAMEMakeeva
SIGNATUREMAKEEVA N
AFFILIATIONSRussian Academy of Sciences
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Phonological and acoustic properties of ATR in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa)

    Open AccessNadezhda Makeeva, Nadezhda V Makeeva et al.ARTICLEPhonology2022

    This study examines phonological and phonetic properties of ATR contrasts in the vowel system of Akebu (Kwa). The sum of descriptive evidence, including vowel harmony, vowel distribution in non-harmonising contexts, vowel reduction and typological and etymological considerations, indicates a rare vowel inventory with an ATR contrast in front/back vowels but a height contrast in the three redundantly [−ATR] central vowels /ᵻ, ə, a/. This analysis …

  • Phonetic and phonological properties of the advanced tongue root feature in African languages

    Nadezhda Makeeva, Nadezhda V MakeevaARTICLEVoprosy Jazykoznanija2022

    The paper presents an overview of the ATR (advanced tongue root) feature, which is fairly widespread among the Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan languages of the Macro-Sudan Belt. The phonetic section provides a description of the articulatory and acoustic correlates of the feature. The review of the articulatory basis of the feature is presented in a historical perspective, from the fi rst cineradiographic studies of the 1960s till the laryngoscopic …

  • Numerals in Akebu

    Open AccessNadezhda Makeeva, Nadezhda V Makeeva et al.ARTICLEOpen Linguistics2020

    This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’. The former have noun class agreement markers, while the latter do not. Only some noun classes are compatible with numerals, but among them there are both plural and singular classes

  • Ditransitive constructions in Akebu

    Open AccessNadezhda Makeeva, Nadezhda V Makeeva et al.ARTICLEStudies in Language2020

    This paper contributes to the typology of ditransitive constructions. Akebu (Kwa, Ghana-Togo mountain, West Africa) has four strategies of alignment of ditransitive verbs, if both theme and recipient objects are expressed: a neutral strategy, a possessive-like strategy, a strategy with a pronominal reprise and a ‘take’ serial verb construction strategy. The possessive-like strategy that is most standard in Akebu is rare in a cross-linguistic pers…