English Bari-Lotuxo-Acoli Vocabulary
Author : Carlo Muratori
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Acoli language
ISBN :
The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa
Author : A. N. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351600389
Book Description
Originally published in 1956, this volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in the area extending south of the Sahara from Lake Chad to the Indian Ocean, together withj those of South Africa. The arrangement is primarily linguistic, in as much as larger units which show some indisputable affinities are where possible treated contiguously. Languages in the centre of the total area are discussed first, followed by thos ein the west, north, east and finally south.
An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author : Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780810814783
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.
Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa
Author : M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351598716
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour. Although some vocabulary material is contained in this volume, and some more in the Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, vocabulary comparison itself plays little part. The volume presents an overall picture of the working of representative languages from each section of the Handbook and provides grammatical material which will help future students in classifying the languages to their typological as apart from their lexical features.
Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa
Author : Sergio Baldi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004438483
Book Description
Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa analyzes around 3000 Arabic loanwords in more than 50 languages in the area, and completes the work started in a previous similar work on West Africa.
ACAL in SoCAL
Author : Yaqian Huang
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961104727
Book Description
This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.
A Grammar of Lopit
Author : Jonathan Moodie
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004430679
Book Description
In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide a detailed description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan.
Antipassive
Author : Katarzyna Janic
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260265
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construction and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the individual contributions.
Kings of Disaster
Author : Simon Simonse
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004618023
Book Description
This study of the rainmakers of the Nilotic Sudan means a breakthrough in anthropological thinking on African political systems. Taking his inspiration from Rene Girard's theory of consensual scapegoating the author shows that the long standing distinction of states and stateless societies as two fundamentally different political types does not hold. Centralized and segmentary systems only differ in the relative emphasis put on the victimary role of the king as compared with that of enemy victims. Kings of Disaster so proposes an uninvolved solution to the vexed problem of regicide. Recent cases occurring during the great drought of the mid-1980's are discribed and analyzed. Making simultaneous use of first-hand field data and archival sources, the book offers the first presentation of five Nilotic communities on the East Bank of the Nile. This study offers a new perspective on the role of violence in the structuring of society.
Practical Orthography of African Languages
Author : International African Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351601377
Book Description
The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French. Originally published in 1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the information on the Semitic and cushitic languages of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Related languages are grouped together into larger sections which have some linguistic significance. A further pamphlet, the Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa, describes the relationship between languages and dialects. For each language, data are given on locality, number of speakers, use for educational and religious purposes and the extent of vernacular literature. The linguistic material is set out in phonetic script with tone marks, though reference is made to current standard orthoraphies where these exist.
