The Niger-Congo Languages
Author : John Bendor-Samuel
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Linguistics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author : Jack Berry
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111562522
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Author : Rainer Vossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199609896
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."
East Benue-Congo
Author : John R. Watters
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Benue-Congo languages
ISBN : 3961101000
Book Description
This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.
The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417983
Book Description
This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.
African Languages
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521666299
Book Description
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.
The Numeral System of Proto-Niger-Congo
Author : Konstantin Pozdniakov
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013291876
Book Description
This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases used for this purpose open prospects for both working with the distribution of words that do exist and with the distribution of gaps in postulated cognates. The distribution of filled cells and gaps is a useful tool for reconstruction. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Focus Strategies in African Languages
Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110195934
Book Description
Contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. This book investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others.
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past
Author : R. Blench
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780759104662
Book Description
Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0199239290
Book Description
Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website.
