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Author : Alice Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015019984056
Author : A Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429868344
Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.
Author : Doris L. Payne,Sara Pacchiarotti,Mokaya Bosire
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234708
Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development. These chapters represent nine different genera: Mande, Gur, Kwa, Edoid, Bantu, Nilotic, Gumuzic, Cushitic, and Omotic. Other chapters investigate a mix of languages and families, moving from typological issues to sociolinguistic and inter-ethnic factors that affect language and accent switching. Some chapters are primarily descriptive, while others push forward the theoretical understanding of tone, semantic problems, discourse related structures, and other linguistic systems. The papers on Bantu languages reflect something of the internal richness and continued fascination of the family for linguists, as well as maturation of research on the family. The distribution of other papers highlights the need for intensified research into all the language families of Africa, including basic documentation, in order to comprehend linguistic diversities and convergences across the continent. In this regard, the chapter on Daats’íin (Gumuzic) stands out as the first-ever published article on this hitherto unknown and endangered language found in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border lands.
Author : Bernd Heine,Derek Nurse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521666295
An accessible introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering language typology, linguistic structures and sociolinguistics.
Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Joseph Harold Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : African languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106006069980
Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199609895
Une source inconnue indique : "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. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."
Author : Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211781
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 : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0759104662
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110421750
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 : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865436320
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 : John Bendor-Samuel,Rhonda L. Hartell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X001634885
Author : Ngessimo M. Mutaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015050730749