A linguistic geography of Africa 1st Edition by Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse ISBN 978-0521876117 0521876117
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ISBN 10: 0521876117
ISBN 13: 978-0521876117
Author: Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse
More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, has never been the subject of major research. This book shows that such similarities across African languages are more common than is widely believed. It provides a broad perspective on Africa as a linguistic area, as well as an analysis of specific linguistic regions. In order to have a better understanding of African languages, their structures, and their history, more information on these contact-induced relationships is essential to understanding Africa’s linguistic geography, and to reconstructing its history and prehistory.
Table of contents:
1 Introduction Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse
2 Is Africa a linguistic area? Bernd Heine and Zelealem Leyew
3 Africa as a phonological area G. N. Clements and Annie Rialland
4 Africa as a Morphosyntactic Area Denis Creissels, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, and Christa König
5 The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa Tom Güldemann
6 The Tanzanian Rift Valley area Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous, and Derek Nurse
7 Ethiopia Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer
8 The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa Christa König
9 Africa’s verb-final languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Notes
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