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Author : John Charles Caney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Somali language
ISBN : UOM:39015037378794
Author : Philip J. Jaggar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135752170
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John Saeed
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283078
Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great Afroasiatic language family whose other branches include Semitic, Berber, Chadic and Ancient Egyptian. This book provides a comprehensive description of the grammar of the language that will be of interest to non-specialists and linguists interested in typology and language comparison. The author’s accessible investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse structure allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of Somali and, through Somali, of a Cushitic language. A further important feature of the book is its use of authentic data from a range of sources, including prose, poetry and proverbs.
Author : Ursula Reutner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110626179
With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Author : Thomas Stolz,Dik Bakker,Rosa Salas Palomo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110206043
This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. Christel Stolz reviews processes of gender-assignment to loan nouns in German and German-based varieties. The typology of loan verbs is the topic of the contribution by Søren Wichmann and Jan Wohlgemuth. In the articles by Wolfgang Wildgen and Klaus Zimmermann, two radically new approaches to the theory of language contact are put forward: a dynamic model and a constructivism-based theory, respectively. The second part of the volume is dedicated to more empirically oriented studies which look into language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. Spanish-Amerindian (Guaraní, Otomí, Quichua) contacts are investigated in the comparative study by Dik Bakker, Jorge Gómez-Rendón and Ewald Hekking. Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen discuss the influence exerted by French on the indigenous languages ofCanada. The extent of the Portuguese impact on the Amazonian language Kulina is studied by Stefan Dienst. John Holm looks at the validity of the hypothesis that bound morphology normally falls victim to Creolization processes and draws his evidence mainly from Portuguese-based Creoles. For Austronesia, borrowings and calques from French still are an understudied phenomenon. Claire Moyse-Faurie’s contribution to this topic is thus a pioneer’s work. Similarly, Françoise Rose and Odile Renault-Lescure provide us with fresh data on language contact in French Guiana. The final article of this collection by Mauro Tosco demonstrates that the Italianization of languages of the former Italian colonies in East Africa is only weak. This volume provides the reader with new insights on all levels of language-contact related studies. The volume addresses especially a readership that has a strong interest in language contact in general and its repercussions on the phonology, grammar and lexicon of the recipient languages. Experts of Romance language contact, and specialists of Amerindian languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Austronesian languages and Pidgins and Creoles will find the volume highly valuable.
Author : Akinbiyi Akinlabi ,Lee Bickmore,Michael Cahill ,Michael Diercks,Laura J. Downing,James Essegbey,Katie Franich ,Laura McPherson ,Sharon Rose
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103096
The papers in this volume were presented at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics held at the University of British Columbia in 2019. The contributions span a range of theoretical topics as well as topics in descriptive and applied linguistics. The papers reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and also represent the breadth of the ACAL community, with papers from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America and beyond. They thus provide a snapshot on current research in African linguistics, from multiple perspectives. To mark the 50th anniversary of the conference, the volume editors reminisce, in the introductory chapter, about their memorable ACALs.
Author : Mohamed Haji Mukhtar
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810866041
Despite advances in modern communication and the proliferation of information, there remain areas of the world about which little is known. One such place is Somalia. The informed public is aware of a political meltdown and consequent chaos there, but few comprehend the causes of this tragic crisis. This new edition covers Somalia's origin, history, culture, and language, as well as current economic and political issues. The alphabetical arrangement of this Dictionary, with a complete chronology, list of acronyms, and in-depth bibliography provide useful information about the country in a convenient format. A vital addition to reference collections supporting undergraduate and graduate programs on Africa and the Middle East, international relations, and economics- a useful fact-filled compendium for government and public libraries, NGO's, and other special libraries
Author : Christopher R. Green
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501503610
This book offers a contemporary look at Somali from the standpoint of its major varieties and provides a comprehensive account of the language that is grounded in linguistic theory and the latest scholarship. The grammar includes an extensive array of examples drawn from online corpora and from fieldwork with native speakers of the language.
Author : Hans Wilhelm Lockot
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa, Northeast
ISBN : 3447036117
Erstmals wird hier die Fulle der englischsprachigen Athiopienliteratur geordnet dargeboten. In 100 Sections fuhrt der Autor alle fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit Athiopien wichtigen Buch- und Zeitschriftenbeitrage zum Beispiel zur "Historyof Research", "Archaeology", "Religion", aber auch Fragen der "Sociology", "Agriculture", "Zoology" und "Medical Sciences" auf. Wie im Falle der deutschsprachigen Literatur ("Bibliographia Aethiopica: Die athiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigenRaumes" = Aethiopistische Forschungen 9 [1982]) berucksichtigt der Autor auch alle ihm zuganglichen Besprechungen, womit bei einer Aufnahme von mehr als 24.000 Titeln eine Art "Bibliographic Enzyclopedia" entstanden ist.
Author : Elliott D. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009268363
This book explains why industrialization is the most important factor driving assimilation and ethnic change in the modern world.
Author : John I. Saeed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X001609849
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114636215
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015052827279
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015064823381
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040420940