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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Author : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287228
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Download or read book Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

A Comparative Phonology of Gbe

Author : Hounkpati B.C. Capo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870533
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis A Comparative Phonology of Gbe by : Hounkpati B.C. Capo

Download or read book A Comparative Phonology of Gbe written by Hounkpati B.C. Capo and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, No 14).

A Grammar of Emai

Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766280
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis A Grammar of Emai by : Ronald P. Schaefer

Download or read book A Grammar of Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference grammar is the first ever description of West Africa’s Edoid language Emai. It incorporates narrative, lexical and grammatical field results over the last three decades. Treated are morphology, syntax and argument structure after an introductory phonology and orthographic overview highlighting grammatical and lexical tone. Individual chapters delineate noun and verb phrase structure as well as clause shape in discourse and clause combination. Noun inflection and derivation are detailed as is verb inflection in the context of tense, aspect and modality. Noun phrase character encompasses remnant noun classes, nominal modification types and pronoun forms followed by conjunction. Verb phrase features include complex predicates, both verbs in series and verb plus postverbal particle, functionally distinct copulas, double objects, and sentence complement types constrained by matrix verb. Also analyzed are preverbal and postverbal adverbials relative to information question types. Multi-clause constructions are profiled as to coding varieties across dependent clauses as well as precedence relations. A concluding chapter presents a sample narrative in orthographic form, interlinear gloss and English free translation.

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199283088
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance by : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

Download or read book Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.

In the Linguistic Paradise

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785644073
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Linguistic Paradise by : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele

Download or read book In the Linguistic Paradise written by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Linguistic Paradise is the second volume in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series. The motivating force behind the establishment of the Festschrift Series is to honour outstanding scholars who have excelled in the study of languages and linguistics in Nigeria. This volume is dedicated to Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo, a celebrated linguist and a pioneer professor of Igbo Linguistics. The book is organised in five sections, as follows: Language, History and Society; Literature, Stylistics and Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics; Formal Linguistics; and Tributes. There are 15 papers in the first section the majority address the perennial problem of language choice in Nigeria. Section two contains 10 papers focusing on literature, stylistics and pragmatics. Section three contains 17 papers a sizeable number of which focus on language teaching and learning, two are on lexicography, while others are on language engineering. Section three contains 16 papers focusing on the core areas of linguistics. In section four a biographical profile of Professor E. Nolue Emenanjo and list of publications is presented, while Nwadike examines the contributions of Emenanjo in Igbo Studies.

Archaeology and Language IV

Author : Roger Blench
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134816243
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology and Language IV by : Roger Blench

Download or read book Archaeology and Language IV written by Roger Blench and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology and Language IV examines a variety of pressing issues regarding linguistic and cultural change. It provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative, and fuel a radical rethinking of the conventional discourse of linguistics within archaeology.

Class Marking in Emai

Author : Ronald P. Schaefer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498542735
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Class Marking in Emai by : Ronald P. Schaefer

Download or read book Class Marking in Emai written by Ronald P. Schaefer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class Marking in Emai examines the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional resources pertaining to noun class in Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria. Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare demonstrate that in contrast to its Bantu relations, Emai retains form class prefixes on a relatively small group of nouns that distribute across eleven declension sets. Prefix addition rather than prefix alternation arises when ideophonic adverbials become syntactically displaced due to information structure and when Emai borrows lexical items from other languages. Reduction is evident in two primary domains: agreement class or gender and prefixes that alternate to express form class and grammatical number. As for transformation, it characterizes tonal, nominal and pronominal domains. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, this book explores what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system.

Four Decades in the Study of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN 13 : 9785644006
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis Four Decades in the Study of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics by : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri

Download or read book Four Decades in the Study of Nigerian Languages and Linguistics written by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is produced in commemoration of the official retirement of Professor Kay Williamson from the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The contributing essayists cover five main generations of Nigerian linguists. The collection is divided into six sections: Language, history and Society; Applied Linguistics and Orthography Design; Gender and Communication Studies; Stylistics and Literature; Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Translation; and Formal Linguistics. Some of the contributors include: Ayo Bamgbose, Okon Essie, Ben Elugbe, P.A. Nwachukwu, E.N. Emenanjo, P. Anagbogu, Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche, O.M. Ndimele, O.G. Harry, Levi Igwe, C.U. Omego, O. Ojukwu, A.U. Weje, O.N. Anyanwu and A. Idafuro.

Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology

Author : Frank Kügler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110219328
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology by : Frank Kügler

Download or read book Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology written by Frank Kügler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of current issues in variation and gradience in phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics. It contributes to the growing interest in gradience and variation in theoretical phonology by combing research on the factors underlying variability and systematic quantitative results with theoretical phonological considerations. Variation is inherent to language, and one of the aims of phonological theory is to describe and explain the mechanisms underlying variation at every level of phonological representation. Variation below the segment concerns articulatory, acoustic and perceptual cues that contribute to the formation of natural classes of sounds. At the segmental level there are grammatical differences in the production and perception of contextual variation of segments and in the syntagmatic constraints on the combination of segments. At the suprasegmental level the mapping of tones to grammatical functions and vice versa is discussed. Further aspects addressed in this book are factors outside of language: Variation that arises as a result of a particular dialect or of belonging to a certain age group, or variation that is the consequence of language change. Gradience and variation have always been a central issue in phonetic and sociolinguistic research. Gradience introduces variation in phonology as well. If a phonetic entity can be pronounced in different ways, depending on the environment, prosodic factors or dialectal influences, this ‘gradience’ may introduce ‘variation’, which we understand as a stable state of grammar.

The Emevor People

Author : Richard Akpoyomare Ogbe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543474829
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emevor People by : Richard Akpoyomare Ogbe

Download or read book The Emevor People written by Richard Akpoyomare Ogbe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exposition of the sociocultural past, present, and futuristic preview of the Emevor-speaking people of the Niger-Delta, Nigeria. The work is the product of the author’s reminiscences and introspection into the historiography, geography, economy, language, education, and the multifarious rich sociocultural milieu of the people. It deals with the traditional customs, beliefs, totems, astronomy, time and event reckoning, marriages, traditional religions, ancestral worship and Christology, oracle divination, obituary and obsequies, initiation into Ehwa womanhood rites and sabbatical fattening of brides, festivals, identity of people, governance, heroes/heroines and modern pacesetters, and the changes provoked by modernity. By using simple language, graphic descriptions, and vivid and clear explanations of the phenomena and events, the author has taken the reader through the maze, as it were, with the needed compass to navigate through these labyrinths.

Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785416496
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages by : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele

Download or read book Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages written by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms

Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785420809
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms by : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele

Download or read book Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms written by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bamgbose was the first indigenous Professor of Linguistics in Nigeria, and the first black African to teach linguistics in any known university south of the Sahara. He was there from the very beginning, and together with co-operation of people such as the late Professor Kay Williamson, he nurtured Nigerian linguistics. He is not just a foremost Nigerian linguist, but also a most famous, respected, celebrated, distinguished, and cherished African linguist of all times. To be candid, Nigerian linguistics is synonymous with Professor Emeritus Bamgbose. In 58 well-written chapters by experts in their fields, the book covers aspects of Nigerian languages, linguistics, literatures and culture. The papers have not been categorized into sections; rather they flow, hence there is some overlapping in the arrangement. The book is an essential resource for all who are interested to learn about current trends in the study of languages, linguistics and related subject-matters in Nigeria.

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

Author : Michael Aceto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296502
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean by : Michael Aceto

Download or read book Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean written by Michael Aceto and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, Carriacou, Barbados, Trinidad, and Guyana. In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the contiguous areas of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands (often considered part of North American Englishes) are also included. Papers in this volume explore all aspects of language study, including syntax, phonology, historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and performance. It should be of interest not only to creolists but also to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists and educators either in the Caribbean itself or those who work with schoolchildren of West Indian descent.

African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective

Author : Jens Fleischhauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110795299
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective by : Jens Fleischhauer

Download or read book African Languages from a Role and Reference Grammar Perspective written by Jens Fleischhauer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from 'exotic' languages rather than English? Second, how can the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics in different grammatical systems best modelled and explained? Although RRG took linguistic diversity serious from its very beginning, African languages have been underrepresented in the development of the theory. Given the sheer number African languages deserve a wider coverage in a syntactic theory which takes linguistic diversity seriously. The volume is intended to fill this gap and comprises a selection of papers which investigate different aspects related to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of different African languages. This includes: argument doubling and dislocation in iziZulu, complex referential phrases in Gĩkũyũ, serial verb constructions in Igbo, locative complements in Hausa and Zarma Chiine and focus constructions in Emai. The papers will extent the current RRG approach to new languages and phenomena.

Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description

Author : Laure Sarda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257817
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description by : Laure Sarda

Download or read book Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description written by Laure Sarda and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this book on "Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description" comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages. This mainstream focus has left aside other aspects of motion event descriptions. The chapters of this volume take an in-depth look at three less-studied aspects of motion expression. The first part of the book focuses on directional deixis, especially in relation to associated motion and visual motion. The second part explores variations in Source-Goal asymmetries. The third part investigates different types of motion event constructions, e.g., with various types of co-events. Many languages are taken into consideration throughout the 11 chapters, which gives the volume a clear typological dimension. This book is intended for students and academics interested in motion, spatial semantics, typological variation and cognitive linguistics.

The Numeral Systems of Nigerian Languages

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
ISBN 13 : 9785412741
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Book Synopsis The Numeral Systems of Nigerian Languages by : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri

Download or read book The Numeral Systems of Nigerian Languages written by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri and published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection present the numeral systems of more than twenty Nigerian languages. The papers mainly emanate from a workshop on the numeral systems of Nigerian languages organised by the Linguistic Association of Nigeria during its 23rd Annual Conference which was held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The workshop arose from awareness created by Dr. Eugene S.L. Chan on the need for Nigerian linguists to document this severely endangered but very important aspect of natural languages. The quantum of mathematical computations - addition, multiplication, subtraction, or a combination of two or all of these - involved in the numeral systems of Nigerian languages is remarkable. The papers reveal that a variety of numeral systems do exist, such as: binary, decimal, incomplete decimal, duodecimal, quinary, quaternary, ternary, mixed, body-part tally systems, and much more. The book is a resource about how different languages manipulate their numeral systems.

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific

Author : Walter Bisang
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712733
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific by : Walter Bisang

Download or read book Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific written by Walter Bisang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.