Publications

Phiri, A., Fehn A.M., Rocha, J., Dande, I. (Forthcoming). Tjwao and Ndebele social contact, Zimbabwe. In Di Garbo,F., Kashima, E., Sinnemäki, K. (eds.). Social foundations of language contact: a comparative survey. Contact and Multilingualism. Language Science Press.

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Fehn, A.M. 2o24. K’ui tii – Don’t speak! Morphology and syntax of commands in Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) and beyond. Linguistique et Langues Africaines 10(1).

doi: 10.4000/123pu

Fehn, A.M. 2024. Onomatopoeia in Ts'ixa (Kalahari Khoe). In L. Körtvélyessy & P. Štekauer. Onomatopoeia in the world's languages, 209-222. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

doi: 10.1515/9783111053226-018

Fehn, A.M., Rocha, J. 2023. Lost in translation: a historical-comparative reconstruction of Proto-Khoe-Kwadi based on archival data. Diachronica 40(5): 609-665.

doi: dia.23022.feh

Fehn, A.M. 2o23. Is Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) a dialect of Shua? A comparative take on nominal gender marking and alignment patterns. Studies in African Linguistics 52, Suppl. 13.

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Andrason, A., Fehn, A.M., Phiri, A. 2023. The meaning and form of onomatopoeias in Tjwao. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 68(3): 349-386.

doi: 10.1017/cnj.2023.17

Schlebusch, C., Semo, A. 2023. The genetic diversity of Bantu-speaking populations helped to shape African history. Nature Research Briefing.

Fortes-Lima, C.A., Burgarella, C., Hammarén, R., Eriksson, A., Vicente, M., Jolly, C., Semo, A., Gunnink, H., Pacchiarotti, S., Mundeke, L., Matonda, I., Muluwa, J.K., Coutros, P., Nyambe, T.S., Cikomola, C., Coetzee, V., de Castro, M., Ebbesen, P., Delanghe, J., Stoneking, M., Barham, L., Lombard, M., Meyer, A., Steyn, M., Malmström, H., Rocha, J., Soodyall, H., Pakendorf, B., Bostoen, K., Schlebusch, C.M. (2023). The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa. Nature.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6

Oliveira, S., Fehn, A.M., Amorim, B., Stoneking, M., Rocha, J. (2023). Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry. Science Advances 9(38): eadh3822.

doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3822

Nakagawa, H., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Auer, D., Fehn, A.M., Ammann Gerlach, L., Güldemann, T., Job, S., Lionnet, F., Naumann, C., Ono, H., Pratchett, L.J. (2023). Towards a phonological typology of the Kalahari Basin Area languages. Linguistic Typology 27(2):509-535.

doi: 10.1515/lingty-2022-0047

Araújo, V., Fehn, A.M., Phiri, A., Wills, J. Rocha, J., Gayà-Vidal, M. (2023). Oral microbiome homogeneity across diverse human groups from southern Africa: first results from southwestern Angola and Zimbabwe. BMC Microbiology 23(1): 226.

doi: 10.1186/s12866-023-02970-2

Fehn, A.M., Amorim, B., Rocha, J. (2022). The linguistic and genetic landscape of Southern Africa. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 100: 243-265.

doi: 10.4436/JASS.10008

Andrason, A., Aikhenvald, A.Y., Egbokhare, F.A., Fehn, A.M., Gębka-Wolak, M., Locatell, C., Lovestrand, J., Moroz, A., Nau, N., Phiri, A., Pratchett, L.J., Ross, D., Schaefer, R.P., Weiss, D. (2022). The rise and fall of Serial Verb Constructions: Finale. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS 65:267-273.

doi: 10.5842/65-1-977

Pratchett, L. (2022). When verbs ‘stay (and) go’ together: Pseudo-coordination in Juǀ’hoan and ǃXun. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 65: 191-216.

doi: 10.5842/65-1-974

Fehn, A.M., Phiri, A. (2022). Juncture-Verb Constructions in Northeastern Kalahari Khoe: A comparative perspective. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS 65 (2022):147-190.

doi: 10.5842/65-1-973

Alva, O., Leroy, A., Heiske, M., Pereda-Loth, V., Tisseyre, L., Boland, A., Deleuze, J.F., Rocha, J., Schlebusch, C., Fortes-Lima, C., Stoneking, M., Radimilahy, C., Rakotoarisoa, J.A., Letellier, T., Pierron, D. (2022). The loss of biodiversity in Madagascar is contemporaneous with major demographic events. Current Biology 32(23):4997-5007.e5.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.060.

Köhler, O. (2022). The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa (4.2). VII Omens and Dreams, Spells and Magic; VIII Religion: Beliefs, Institutions and Rites, ed. by Boden, G., Fehn, A.M. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

Köhler, O. (2022). The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa (5.1). IX Illness and Healing; X Music and Dance, Games and Arts, ed. by Boden, G., Fehn, A.M. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

Köhler, O. (2022). The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa (5.2). XI Myths and Legends, Fairy Tales and Narration; XII World and Nature, ed. Boden, G., Fehn, A.M. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

Almeida, J., Fehn, A.M., Ferreira, M., Machado, T., Hagemeijer, T., Rocha, J., Gayà-Vidal, M. (2021). The Genes of Freedom: Genome-Wide Insights into Marronage, Admixture and Ethnogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea. Genes 12(6): 833.

doi: 10.3390/genes12060833

Nunes, K., Maia, M.H.T., Dos Santos, E.J.M., Dos Santos, S.E.B., Guerreiro, J.F., Petzl-Erler, M.L., Bedoya, G., Gallo, C., Poletti, G., Llop, E., Tsuneto, L., Bortolini, M.C., Rothhammer, F., Single, R., Ruiz-Linares, A., Rocha, J., Meyer, D. (2021). How natural selection shapes genetic differentiation in the MHC region: A case study with Native Americans. Human immunology 82(7): 523–531.

doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2021.03.005

Fehn, A.M. (2021). Phasal polarity in Khwe and Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe). In Kramer, R. (ed.). The expression of phasal polarity in African languages, 391-418. Berlin: De Gruyter.

doi: 10.1515/9783110646290-017

Almeida-Santos, A., Martins-Mendes, D., Gayà-Vidal, M., Pérez-Pardal, L., Beja-Pereira, A. (2021). Characterization of the oral microbiome of medically controlled type-2 diabetes patients. Frontiers in Microbiology 12:610370.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.610370

Gouveia, M.H., Borda, V., Leal, T.P., Moreira, R.G., Bergen, A.W., Kehdy, F.S.G., Alvim, I., Aquino, M.M., Araujo, G.S., Araujo, N.M., Furlan, V., Liboredo, R., Machado, M., Magalhaes, W.C.S., Michelin, L.A., Rodrigues, M.R., Rodrigues-Soares, F., Sant Anna, H.P., Santolalla, M.L., Scliar, M.O.,Soares-Souza, G., Zamudio, R., Zolini, C., Bortolini, M.C., Dean, M., Gilman, R.H., Guio, H., Rocha, J., Pereira, A.C., Barreto, M.L., Horta, B.L., Lima-Costa, M.F., Mbulaiteye, S.M., Chanock, S.J., Tishkoff, S.A., Yeager, M., Tarazona-Santos, E. (2020). Origins, Admixture Dynamics, and Homogenization of the African Gene Pool in the Americas. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(6): 1647–1656.

doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa033

Semo, A., Gayà-Vidal, M., Fortes-Lima, C., Alard, B., Oliveira, S., Almeida, J., Prista, A., Damasceno, A., Fehn, A.M., Schlebusch, C., Rocha, J. (2020). Along the Indian Ocean Coast: Genomic Variation in Mozambique Provides New Insights into the Bantu Expansion. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37 (2): 406–416.

doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz224

Puig, M., Lerga-Jaso, J., Giner-Delgado, C., Pacheco, S., Izquierdo, D., Delprat, A., Gayà-Vidal, M., Regan, J.F., Karlin-Neumann, G., Cáceres, M. (2020). Determining the impact of uncharacterized inversions in the human genome by droplet digital PCR. Genome Research 30(5):724-73.

doi: 10.1101/gr.255273.119

Fehn, A.M. (2020). Click loss in Khoe-Kwadi. In Sands, B. (ed.). Click consonants, 291-335. Leiden: BRILL.

doi: 10.1163/9789004424357_010

Fehn, A.M. (2020). Click replacement and loss in Ju. In Sands, B. (ed.). Click consonants, 336-355. Leiden: BRILL.

doi: 10.1163/9789004424357_011

Andrason, A., Fehn, A.M., Phiri, A. (2020). Interjections in Tjwao. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83(2):293-319.

doi: 10.1017/S0041977X20002608

Hagemeijer, T., Rocha, J. (2019). Creole languages and genes: the case of São Tomé e Príncipe. Faits de Langues 49: 167-182.

Rocha, J. (2019). The evolutionary history of human skin pigmentation. Journal of Molecular Evolution 88(1): 77-87

doi: 10.1007/s00239-019-09902-7

Giner-Delgado, C., Villatoro, S., Lerga-Jaso, J., Gayà-Vidal, M., Oliva, M., Castellano, D., Pantano, L., Bitarello, B., Izquierdo, S., Noguera, I., Olalde, I., Delprat, A., Blancher, A., Lalueza-Fox, C., Esko, T., O'Reilly, P., Andres, A., Ferretti, L., Puig, M., Caceres, M. (2019). Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome . Nature Communications 10(1):1-14.

doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12173-x

Fehn, A.M. (2019). Kuvale: A Bantu language of southwestern Angola. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 40(2): 235-270.

doi: 10.1515/jall-2019-0010

Mohr, S., Fehn, A.M., de Voogt, A. (2019). Hunting for signs: Exploring unspoken networks within the Kalahari Basin. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 40(1): 115-147.

doi: 10.1515/jall-2019-0005

Anderson, C., Tresoldi, T., Chacon, T., Fehn, A.M., Walworth, M., Forkel, R., List, J.M. (2019). A cross-linguistic database of phonetic transcription systems. Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting 4(1):21-53.

doi: 10.2478/yplm-2018-0002.

Fehn, A.M. (2019). Phonological and lexical variation in the Khwe dialect cluster. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 169(1): 9-38.

doi: 10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.169.1.0009.

Fehn, A.M. (2019) African linguistics in official Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Africa. In Wolff, E. (ed.). A history of African linguistics, 189-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

doi: 10.1017/9781108283977.010

Fehn, A.M., Bosch, S., Kosch, I. (2019). African linguistics in so-called lusophone and hispanophone Africa and in southern Africa. In Wolff, E. (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 98-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

doi: 10.1017/9781108283991.005

Fehn, A.M. (2019). Revisiting tense and aspect in the Khoe language family. In Bayer, K., Boden, G., Köhler, B., Zoch, U. (eds.). Linguistics across Africa. Festschrift für Rainer Vossen, 99-112. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

Fehn, A.M. (2019). Transitivity in Ts’ixa. With special reference to semantically ditransitive constructions. In Anyanwu, R.J. (ed.). Transitivity in African languages (Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter), 55-74. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

Oliveira, A., Hübner, A., Fehn, A.M., Aço, T., Lages, F., Pakendorf, B., Stoneking, M., Rocha, J. (2018). The Role of Matrilineality in Shaping Patterns of Y Chromosome and MtDNA Sequence Variation in Southwestern Angola. European Journal of Human Genetics 27(3):475–83.

doi: 10.1038/s41431-018-0304-2

Oliveira S, Fehn AM, Aço T, Lages F, Gayà-Vidal M, Pakendorf B, Stoneking M, Rocha J (2018) Matriclans shape populations: Insights from the Angolan Namib Desert into the maternal genetic history of southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165(3):518-535.

doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23378

Alvarez-Alvarez, M.M., Risch, N., Gignoux, C.R., Huntsman, S., Ziv, E., Fejerman, L., Esteban, M.E., Gaya-Vidal, M., Sobrino, B., Brisighelli, F., Harich, N., Cruciani, F., Chaabani, H., Carracedo, A., Moral, P., Gonzalez Burchard, E., Via, M., Athanasiadis, G. (2018). Genetic analysis of Sephardic ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula. bioRxiv: 325779.

doi: 10.1101/325779

Köhler, O. (2018). The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa. A self-portrait in their own language (4.1). Family and Society; Customary Law: Norms and Practices, ed. by Boden, G., Fehn, A.M. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

Fehn, A.M. (2018). Review of A Trilingual !Xóõ Dictionary. !Xóõ – English – Setswana. Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie Online. https://www.afrikanistik-aegyptologie-online.de/archiv/2018/4790.

Fehn, A.M. (2018). New data on Northeastern Kalahari Khoe phoneme inventories. Africana Linguistica 24:5-29.

doi: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285489

Rocha, J. (2017). Race and society in Portugal: two notes and a remark. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 95: 338-342.

doi: 10.4436/JASS.95014

Fehn, A.M., Phiri, A. (2017). Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe). Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics 48:105-122.

doi: 10.5774/48-0-284

Güldemann, T., Fehn, A.M. (2017). The Kalahari Basin area as a ‘Sprachbund’ before the Bantu expansion - an update. In Hickey, R. (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, 500-526. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

doi: 10.1017/9781107279872.019

Heine, B., Fehn, A.M. (2017). An areal view of Africa. In Hickey, R. (ed.). The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, 424-445. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

doi: 10.1017/9781107279872.016

Fehn, A.M. (2017). Marking direct objects in Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe). In Fehn, A.M. (ed.). Khoisan languages and linguistics. Proceedings of the 4th international symposium, Riezlern 2011, 121-156. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

Fehn, A.M. (ed.) (2017). Khoisan languages and linguistics. Proceedings of the 4th international symposium, July 11–13, 2011, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

Kimura, L., Nunes, K., Macedo-Souza, L.I., Rocha, J., Meyer, D., Mingroni-Netto, R. (2016). Inferring paternal history of rural African-derived Brazilian populations from Y chromosomes. American Journal of Human Biology. 29: e22930.

doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22930

Pinto, J.C., Oliveira, S., Teixeira, S., Martins, D., Fehn, A.M., Aço, T., Gayà-Vidal, M., Rocha, J. (2016). Food and pathogen adaptations in the Angolan Namib desert: Tracing the spread of lactase persistence and human African trypanosomiasis resistance into southwestern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 161(3): 436-447.

doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23042

Rocha, J., Fehn, A.M. (2016). Genetics and Demographic History of the Bantu. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0022892

Barbieri, C., Vicente, M., Oliveira, S., Bostoen, K., Rocha, J., Stoneking, M., Pakendorf, B. (2014). Migration and Interaction in a Contact Zone: mtDNA Variation among Bantu-Speakers in Southern Africa. Plos One, 9(6): e99117.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099117

Claes, P., Liberton, D.K., Daniels, K., Rosana, K.M., Quillen, E.E., Pearson, L.N., McEvoy, B., Bauchet, M., Zaidi, A.A., Yao, W., Tang, H., Barsh, G.S., Absher, D.M., Puts, D.A., Rocha, J., Beleza, S., Pereira, R.W., Baynam, G., Suetens, P., Vandermeulen, D., Wagner, J.K., Boster, J.S., Shriver, M.D. (2014). Modeling 3D Facial Shape from DNA. Plos Genetics, 10(3): e1004224.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004224

Hodgson, J.A., Pickrell, J.K., Pearson, L.N., Quillen, E.E., Prista, A., Rocha, J., Soodyall, H., Shriver, M.D., Perry, G.H. (2014). Natural selection for the Duffy-null allele in the recently admixed people of Madagascar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281(1789): nº 20140930.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0930

Rocha, J., Coelho, M. (2014). As mudanças culturais podem influenciar a nossa biolologia? O exemplo da digestão da lactose. In: Origem e evolução do homem, ed. by Levy, A., Carrapiço, F., Abreu, H., Pina, M. Esfera do Caos Editores.

Barbieri, C., Vicente, M., Rocha, J., Mpokola, S.W., Stoneking, M., Pakendorf, B. (2013). Ancient substructure in early mtDNA lineages of southern Africa. American Journal of Human Genetics, 92(2): 285-292.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.12.010

Beleza, S., Johnson, N.A., Candille, S.I., Absher, D.M., Coram, M.A., Lopes, J., Campos, J., Araújo, I.I., Anderson, T.M., Vilhjálmsson, B.J., Nordborg, M., Correia e Silva, A., Shriver, M.D., Rocha, J., Barsh, G.S., Tang, H. (2013). Genetic architecture of skin and eye color in an African-European admixed population. PLoS Genetics, 9(3): e1003372.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003372

Beleza, S., Santos, A.M., Mcevoy, B., Alves, I., Martinho, C., Cameron, E., Shriver, M.D., Parra, E.J., Rocha, J. (2013). The timing of pigmentation lightening in Europeans. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30(1): 24-35.

doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss207

Gomez, F., Tomás, G., Ko, W.-Y., Ranciaro, A., Froment, A., Ibrahim, M., Lema, G., Nyambo, T.B., Omar, S.A., Wambebe, C., Hirbo, J.B., Rocha, J., Tiskhoff, S.A. (2013). Patterns of nucleotide and haplotype diversity at ICAM-1 across global human populations with varying levels of malaria exposure. Human Genetics, 132(9): 987-999.

doi: 10.1007/s00439-013-1284-50

Heyer, E., Rocha, J. (2013). Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics. In The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Chapter 14). Ness, I., Bellwood P. (eds). Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Manco, L., Pires, S., Lopes, A.I., Figueiredo, I., Albuquerque, D., Alvarez, M., Rocha, J., Abade, A. (2013). Distribution of the -13910C>T polymorphism in the general population of Portugal and in subjects with gastrointestinal complaints associated with milk consumption. Annals of Human Biology, 40(2): 205-208.

doi: 10.3109/03014460.2012.754943

Beleza, S., Campos, J., Lopes, J., Araújo, I.I., Almada, A.H., Correia e Silva, A., Parra, E., Rocha, J. (2012). The admixture structure and genetic variation of the archipelago of Cape Verde and its implications for admixture mapping studies. PLoS One 7: e51103.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051103