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Author : Vicki Carstens,Frederick Parkinson
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865437947
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
Author : Jason Kandybowicz,Travis Major,Harold Torrence,Philip T. Duncan
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961100361
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.
Author : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : World of Linguistics, 11
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110426064
Annotation Africa is the continent with the greatest number of languages. Their diversity is not recognized duly, owing partly to Greenberg's (1963) synthetic classification into just four indigenous lineages, but first of all because the languages are not yet documented sufficiently. In a time where language extinction rapidly changes linguistic landscapes, it is urgent to establish a more balanced and complete picture of the continent's language profile. This book attempts to contribute to this goal, in particular by focusing on analyses which up to now have not been pursued intensively. Its eight chapters, covering the major domains of our disciplines, do not so much aim at exhaustiveness but rather at the potentially fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics, thus targeting both readerships. So focus is on two major questions: what has been or in the near future will be the contribution of African languages to general linguistic and non-linguistic research and theory, thus shaping or challenging our overall thinking in various scientific disciplines?, and conversely, where can African linguistics advance and profit by better taking the results of general linguistics into account?
Author : Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102129
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 faculty and of its graduates on the faculties of many other universities. Research on African linguistics at IU has covered some of the major language groups spoken on the African continent. Carleton Hodge’s work on Ancient Egyptian and Hausa, Paul Newman’s work on Hausa and Chadic languages, and Roxanna Ma Newman’s work on Hausa language structure and pedagogy have been some of the most important studies on Afro-Asiatic linguistics. With respect to Niger-Congo languages, the work of Charles Bird on Bambara and the Mande languages, Robert Botne’s work on Bantu structure (especially tense and aspect), Samuel Obeng and Colin Painter’s work on Ghanaian Languages (phonetics, phonology, and pragmatics), Robert Port’s studies on Swahili, and Erhard Voeltz's studies on Bantu linguistics are considered some of the most influential studies in the sub-field. On Nilo Saharan languages, the work of Tim Shopen on Songhay stands out. IU Linguistics has also forwarded theoretical work on African languages, such as John Goldsmith’s seminal research on tone in African languages. The African linguistics faculty at IU have either founded or edited important journals in African Studies, African languages, and African linguistics, including Africa Today, Studies in African Linguistics, and Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. In 1972, the Indiana University Department of Linguistics hosted the Third Annual Conference of African Linguistics. Proceedings of that conference were published by Indiana University Publications (African Series, vol. 7). In 1986, IU hosted the Seventeenth Annual Conference of African Linguistics with Paul Newman and Robert Botne editing the proceedings in a volume entitled Current Approaches to African Linguistics, vol. 5. In 2016, Indiana University hosted the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics with the theme African Linguistics Across the Disciplines. Proceedings of that meeting are published in this volume. The papers presented in this volume reflect the diversity of opportunities for language study in Africa. This collection of descriptive and theoretical work is the fruit of data gathering both in-country and abroad by researchers of languages spoken across the continent, from Sereer-sin in the west to Somali in the northeast to Ikalanga in the south. The range of topics in this volume is also broad, representative of the varied field work in country and abroad that inspires research in African linguistics. This collection of papers spans the disciplines of phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology (both morphophonological and morphosyntactic), syntax, semantics, and language policy. The data and analyses presented in this volume offer a cross-disciplinary view of linguistic topics from the many under-resourced languages of Africa.
Author : Roger M. Blench,Stuart McGill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN : OCLC:808425118
Author : Norval Smith,Tonjes Veenstra,Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260734
Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.
Author : Emily Clem , Peter Jenks , Hannah Sande
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102051
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
Author : Philip T Duncan,Harold Torrence,Travis Major
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013291999
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441158130
The Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes. The first is the history of African urban languages. The second set focus on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the relationship between language and identity in the urban setting. The final two case studies in the volume address the evolution of urban languages in Africa. This rich set of chapters examine languages and speech communities in ten geographically diverse African urban centres, covering almost all regions of the continent. Half involve Francophone cities, the other half, Anglophone. This exciting volume shows us what the study of urban African languages can tell us about language and about African societies in general. It is essential reading for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociolinguistics, especially those interested in the language of Africa.
Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295880
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author’s lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author’s own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107088559
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417976
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author : Franc Marušič,Petra Mišmaš ,Rok Žaucer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102532
Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2017 is a collection of fifteen articles that were prepared on the basis of talks given at the conference Formal Description of Slavic Languages 12.5, which was held on December 7-9, 2017, at the University of Nova Gorica. The volume covers a wide array of topics, such as control verbs, instrumental arguments, and perduratives in Russian, comparatives, negation, n-words, negative polarity items, and complementizer ellipsis in Czech, impersonal se-constructions and complementizer doubling in Slovenian, prosody and the morphology of multi-purpose suffixes in Serbo-Croatian, and indefinite numerals and the binding properties of dative arguments in Polish. Importantly, by exploring these phenomena in individual Slavic languages, the collection of articles in this volume makes a significant contribution to both Slavic linguistics and to linguistics in general.
Author : Beatrice Ekanjume-Ilongo,Chris Dunton,Mokhoele Aaron Hala-Hala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African languages
ISBN : 1934502154
