Topics in African Linguistics / edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, Lioba Moshi, with the assistance of Ben G. Blount and Deborah Schmidt.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.
Description
ix, 307 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 100. [More in this series]
    Notes
    Selection of papers presented at the 21st Conference on African Linguistics, held Apr. 12-14, 1990, University of Georgia.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the Bantu verb stem / Larry M. Hyman
    • Ewe verbs in derivation and in periphrastic constructions / Andrew S. Allen
    • Les procedes repetitifs en kikongo: le redoublement et la reduplication / Mwatha Musanji Ngalasso
    • Clitic climbing in Bantu / Edmond Biloa
    • The Yoruba serial verb construction: A complex or simple sentence? / S. Adenike Lawal
    • La negation en gbaya 'bodoe / Paulette Roulon-Doko
    • Names and honorific pronouns in Gborbo Krahn / Janet Bing
    • Luo names: Reference and meaning / Ben G. Blount
    • Time-stability: The case of adjectives in KiVunjo-Chaga / Lioba Moshi
    • On the typological character of property concepts in Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer and Oisaghaede F. Egbokhare
    • Verb structure and tone in Chiyao / Al Mtenje
    • On the reduced nasal phoneme of Manding / Jose Tourville
    • Language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies: Bantu Languages / Eyamba G. Bokamba.
    • Building the frame in codeswitching: Evidence from Africa / Carol Myers-Scotton
    • Phonological similarities between Sango and its base language: Is Sango a pidgin/creole or a koine? / Helma Pasch
    • Can language planning work? Theory versus practice in Africa / Edmun B. Richmond.
    ISBN
    1556195532 :
    LCCN
    93005761
    OCLC
    28549699
    RCP
    C - S
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