Harvard African Studies
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Africa
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Africa
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Author : Alice Werner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0429868863
First published in 1919, this volume provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the Bantu language family of Central and Southern Africa. Its author held in-situ expertise in Nanja, Swahili, Zulu, Giryama and Pokomo. A professor of Swahili and Bantu languages, she was the author of several books on Bantu languages and African peoples. The volume aims to depict the broad principles underlying the structure of the Bantu language family and attempts a classification of those languages. Contemporaneous with the colonization of Tanzania, many of the areas to which this volume was relevant were under British control at the time of publication.
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Africa
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Africa
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Author : African Society
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Africa
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Author : Charles Hubert Armbruster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521153140
This book is the result of years of close observation and analysis of Dongolese conversations and is a monumental and authoritative work.
Author : Daniel Jones
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Tswana language
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Page : 878 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Robert K. Herbert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110865939
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Sara Pugach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0472027778
The study of African languages in Germany, or Afrikanistik, originated among Protestant missionaries in the early nineteenth century and was incorporated into German universities after Germany entered the “Scramble for Africa” and became a colonial power in the 1880s. Despite its long history, few know about the German literature on African languages or the prominence of Germans in the discipline of African philology. In Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814–1945, Sara Pugach works to fill this gap, arguing that Afrikanistik was essential to the construction of racialist knowledge in Germany. While in other countries biological explanations of African difference were central to African studies, the German approach was essentially linguistic, linking language to culture and national identity. Pugach traces this linguistic focus back to the missionaries’ belief that conversion could not occur unless the “Word” was allowed to touch a person’s heart in his or her native language, as well as to the connection between German missionaries living in Africa and armchair linguists in places like Berlin and Hamburg. Over the years, this resulted in Afrikanistik scholars using language and culture rather than biology to categorize African ethnic and racial groups. Africa in Translation follows the history of Afrikanistik from its roots in the missionaries’ practical linguistic concerns to its development as an academic subject in both Germany and South Africa throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jacket image: Perthes, Justus. Mittel und Süd-Afrika. Map. Courtesy of the University of Michigan's Stephen S. Clark Library map collection.