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Subject(s)

• African languages [Browse]

Editor

• Vossen, Rainer [Browse]
• Dimmendaal, Gerrit Jan [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

Providing a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, this text draws on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 28, 2020).

Contents

• Introduction / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Rainer Vossen
• Central Sudanic / Pascal Boyeldieu
• Language Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization / James Essegbey
• Bom-Kim / G. Tucker Childs
• Saharan / Norbert Cyffer
• Kwa / Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
• Nilo-Saharan and its Limits / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
• Linguistic Isolates / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
• Baale / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
• Sandawe / Helen Eaton
• Cognition and Language / Axel Fleisch
• Bende / Yuko Abe
• Wandala / Zygmunt Frajzyngier
• Narratives / Wilhelm J. G. Mèohlig
• Ethio-Semitic / Victor Porkhomovsky
• Reflections on the History of African Language Classification / Ludwig Gerhardt
• Kumam / Osamu Hieda
• Khoisan / Henry Honken
• ǁX'egwi / Henry Honken
• Language Birth: Youth/Town Language / Ellen Hurst
• Chadic / Bernard Caron
• Sidaama / Kazuhiro Kawachi
• Phonology and Phonetics / Michael J. Kenstowicz
• South Cushitic / Roland KieÇling
• Ideophones / Christa Kilian-Hatz
• Adamawa / Ulrich Kleinewillinghèofer
• Waja / Ulrich Kleinewillinghèofer
• Omotic / Bernhard Kèohler
• Berber / Maarten Kossmann
• Proverbs / Sebastian K. Bemile
• Dialectology and Language Geography / Mena B. Lafkioui
• Niger-Congo, with a special focus on Benue-Congo / Jeff Good
• Language and Ethnobotany / Karsten Legáere
• African languages in information and communication technology / Kristin Vold Lexander
• Central Cushitic / Zelealem Leyew
• Kolisi / Zelealem Leyew
• Atlantic / Friederike Lèupke
• Gur / Gudrun Miehe
• Iraqw / Maarten Mous
• Mixed Languages: The case of Ma'âa/Mbugu / Maarten Mous
• Sign Languages / Victoria Nyst
• Poetry / Clarissa Vierke
• Tone / David Odden
• Ubangi / Helma Pasch
• Zande / Helma Pasch
• Colour term systems: Genetic vs areal distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa / Doris L. Payne
• Experiencer Constructions / Ulrike Zoch
• Biali / Coffi Sambiâeni
• Kordofanian / Nicolas Quint
• Mande / Henning Schreiber
• Language and Education / Ingse Skattum
• Pidgin and Creole Language / Gabriele Sommer
• Pragmatics and Communication / Thomas Bearth
• East Cushitic / Mauro Tosco
• North Cushitic / Martine Vanhove
• Dan / Valentin Vydrin
• Syntax / Jochen Zeller
• Arabic in Africa / Jonathan Owens
• Morphology / Klaus Beyer
• Cara / Rainer Vossen
• African language types / Rainer Vossen
• Afro-Asiatic overview / Victor Porkhomovsky
• Egyptian / Balâazs J. Irsay-Nagy
• Eastern Sudanic / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Angelika Jakobi
• Yukuben / Rose-Juliet Anyanwu
• Zenaga / Catherine Taine-Cheikh
• Songhay languages / Lameen Souag
• Distinctive languages / Patricia Friedrich
• Conversation analysis / Maren Rèusch
• Bantu and Bantoid / Lutz Marten
• Indigenous African scripts / Andrij Rovenchak, Solomija Buk
• Language policy and politics / Kembo Sure
• Language contact / Klaus Beyer
• African languages in the Diaspora / Andrea Hollington
• Orthography standardization / Elke Karan, David Roberts
• Words, things, and meaning: Linguistics as a tool for historical reconstruction / David L. Schoenbrun
• Language and Archaeology / Koen Bostoen.

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Other title(s)

African languages

ISBN

• 0-19-100738-2
• 0-19-100737-4
• 0-19-175023-9

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