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A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 37,92 MB

Release : 2018-07-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9004376623

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Book Description

This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on South African language studies over the past 10 years. The introduction written by Menán du Plessis (Stellenbosch University) discusses the most recent developments in the field. The Linguistic Bibliography is compiled under the editorial management of Eline van der Veken, René Genis and Anne Aarssen in Leiden, The Netherlands. Linguistic Bibliography Online is the most comprehensive bibliography for scholarship on languages and theoretical linguistics available. Updated monthly with a total of more than 20,000 records annually, it enables users to trace recent publications and provides overviews of older material. For more information on Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online, please visit brill.com/lbo and linguisticbibliography.com. The e-book version of this bibliography is available in Open Access.



African Languages

Author : Bernd Heine

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 37,51 MB

Release : 2000-08-03

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780521666299

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This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.



Archaeology, Language, and the African Past

Author : R. Blench

Publisher : Rowman Altamira

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 42,81 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780759104662

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Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa



A History of African Linguistics

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 377 pages

File Size : 34,33 MB

Release : 2019-06-13

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1108417973

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Book Description

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



The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

Author : Rainer Vossen

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 1104 pages

File Size : 50,50 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 0199609896

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Book Description

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."



An International Bibliography of African Lexicons

Author : Melvin K. Hendrix

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 382 pages

File Size : 32,45 MB

Release : 1982

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 9780810814783

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Book Description

Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.



Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 441 pages

File Size : 31,61 MB

Release : 2011-06-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027287228

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Book Description

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.



Language and Development in Africa

Author : Ekkehard Wolff

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 375 pages

File Size : 39,89 MB

Release : 2016-05-26

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1107088550

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Book Description

This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.



The Epic of Sumanguru Kante

Author : Stephen Bulman

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 34,84 MB

Release : 2017-08-28

Category : History

ISBN : 9004349332

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The Epic of Sumanguru Kante contains the Bamana text and English translation of griot Abdoulaye Sako’s oral narrative of the life of Sumanguru, recorded in 1997 in Koulikoro (Mali), together with explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and sections on the Bamana language and musical accompaniment. Sumanguru is a familiar figure within Manding epic oral traditions about ancient Mali. But while these narratives generally focus on Sunjata Keita, Sako’s oral poem is rare in according Sumanguru the central role. In so doing he includes hitherto undocumented episodes relating to Sumanguru’s life and role as the ruler of Soso, the little known state said to have flourished in the western Sudan between the fall of ancient Ghana and rise of ancient Mali.