Historical Linguistics And The Comparative Study Of African Languages

Author : Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211781

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal Pdf

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

Author : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110421668

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The Languages and Linguistics of Africa by Tom Güldemann Pdf

This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.

Author : David Dalby
Publisher : Frank Cass Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015046390582

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Language and History in Africa by David Dalby Pdf

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417976

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A History of African Linguistics by H. Ekkehard Wolff Pdf

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Author : Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317628682

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The Bantu Languages by Mark Van de Velde,Koen Bostoen,Derek Nurse,Gérard Philippson Pdf

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.

Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287229

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191007378

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The Oxford Handbook of African Languages by Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological, and comparative linguistics.

Author : Mervyn C. Alleyne
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106005045940

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Comparative Afro-American by Mervyn C. Alleyne Pdf

Author : Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865436320

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Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa by Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch Pdf

For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh,Kathryn M. de Luna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190657567

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Tracing Language Movement in Africa by Ericka A. Albaugh,Kathryn M. de Luna Pdf

The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools. Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but their lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a truly multidisciplinary representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each discipline uses to make sense of language movement in Africa in plain terms and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The volume is organized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages as whole or in part. Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative empirical case study. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data, and method of other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields.

Author : Carl Meinhof
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000715021

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An Introduction to the Study of African Languages by Carl Meinhof Pdf

As a rule, no long explanation is needed to make clear why a scientific traveller, an official, a business man, or a missionary should seek to acquire the languages of primitive people in our colonies overseas. All the world over, the first requisite for any one who has to deal with men is ability to communicate with them. When, therefore, a primitive people understands no European language the only course open to the European desirous of opening up intercourse with it is to learn its language.

Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1592211550

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The Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages by John M. Mugane Pdf

For the thirty-third consecutive year, the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided the major forum for the discussion of linguistic data geared towards understanding how African languages are constituted, acquired and used. This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd AWAL held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa.

Author : P. Ak?j?obi Nwachukwu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351597036

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African Languages/Langues Africaines by P. Ak?j?obi Nwachukwu Pdf

Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on the national language issue in Africa (Akan in Ghana), a socio-linguistic case study of the Hausa language in Nigeria and assimiliation and lexical coinages in Igbo.

Author : Paul A. Kotey
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865436657

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New Dimensions in African Linguistics and Languages by Paul A. Kotey Pdf

Presents the papers delivered during the Plenary Sessions at the 27th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contents cover issues relating to phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and language and society, as well as pedagogical issues that relate to the learning and teaching of African languages.

Author : Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African languages
ISBN : 0677043805

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Language in Africa by Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen Pdf

This book developed out of a survey course on African languages that Uriel Weinreich invited the author to teach at Columbia University. The focus of the course changed considerably in the years that the author taught the course (1964-1968), in large part to accommodate the interests of many students without a background in linguistics but registered for the course. The one thing African languages have in common, setting them off from all the other languages in the world, is the fact that they are spoken in Africa.