Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa

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To mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Greenberg's Studies in African Linguistic Classification, the topic of African language history and classification was made a special focus of the 1995 conference. A third of the papers relate to this theme. These papers cover historical issues concerning the three major language families found solely on the African continent. Topics in phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics and language planning are covered in the ...
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To mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Greenberg's Studies in African Linguistic Classification, the topic of African language history and classification was made a special focus of the 1995 conference. A third of the papers relate to this theme. These papers cover historical issues concerning the three major language families found solely on the African continent. Topics in phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics and language planning are covered in the remainder of the volume.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780865436312
  • Publisher: Africa World Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1998
  • Series: Trends in African Linguistics Series
  • Pages: 316
  • Product dimensions: 6.39 (w) x 9.38 (h) x 1.23 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Entre Oubanguien et Soudan central : les langues banda 1
Classifying Cross River 17
The place of Mande in Niger-Congo 27
Fula imperfective forms in a grammaticalization perspective 37
The fates of [+ATR] /a/ in Nilotic 45
Thoughts on a model for describing linguistic relationships 55
Internal classification of the Bantoid language group, with special focus on the relations between Narrow Bantu, Southern Bantoid and Northern Bantoid 65
Comparison and classification of Khoisan languages 75
Discontinuous remoteness in Dagaare 87
Issues in the North/South syntactic split of East Bantu 95
Opacity effects in Optimal Domains theory: Evidence from Ekegusii 107
Tone alternations in the associative construction of Suma 117
Nasal assimilation and labial-velar geometry 127
Palatalization in SiSwati 137
Case-tone Marking in Igbo Nouns, with special reference to the associative construction 147
Collapsing vowel harmony and doubly-articulated fricatives: two myths about the Avatime phonological system 155
Imbrication in Ciyao 167
Verbal tone melodies in Kikerewe 177
Empty root nodes in Kikamba: Conflicting evidence and theoretical implications 185
Serial verb constructions as complex predicates: Evidence from Dagaare and Akan 195
The mandatory subject reference pronoun in Mbay: an informal study 205
Allomorphy and the morphology-syntax distinction in Ikalanga 217
Semantic structure of Bantu noun classes 229
Gikuyu NP morphosyntax 239
Towards a typology of applicatives in Bantu languages 249
Serial verbs and V-V compounds 259
Emai's temporal adverbs 269
Planning national language: the Hausa factor in language policy for Nigeria 277
Comparing Nguni and Sotho: A sociolinguistic classification 289
The education variable in language patterns in the Republic of Congo 307
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