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Notes On The Speech Of The Tumbuka Kamanga Peoples In The Northern Province Of Nyasaland
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Book Synopsis Notes on the Speech of the Tumbuka-Kamanga Peoples in the Northern Province of Nyasaland by : Thomas Cullen Young
Download or read book Notes on the Speech of the Tumbuka-Kamanga Peoples in the Northern Province of Nyasaland written by Thomas Cullen Young and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa by : Leroy Vail
Download or read book The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa written by Leroy Vail and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism—commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The bloody hostilities between the tribally-oriented Zulu Inkhata movement and supporters of the African National Congress are but the most recent example of tribalism's tenacity. The studies in this volume offer a new historical model for the growth and endurance of such ideologies in southern Africa.
Book Synopsis Notes on the History of the Tumbuka-Kamanga Peoples in the Northern Province of Nyasaland by : Thomas Cullen Young
Download or read book Notes on the History of the Tumbuka-Kamanga Peoples in the Northern Province of Nyasaland written by Thomas Cullen Young and published by Frank Cass Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Negative Existential Cycle by : Ljuba Veselinova
Download or read book The Negative Existential Cycle written by Ljuba Veselinova and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The collection presented here features detailed studies of several language families such as Bantu, Chadic and Indo-European. A number of articles focus on the micro-variation and attested historical developments within smaller groups and clusters such as Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, and Nanaic. Finally, variation and historical developments in specific languages are discussed for Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Egyptian, Moksha-Mordvin (Uralic), Bashkir (Turkic), Kalmyk (Mongolic), three Pama-Nyungan languages, O’dam (Southern Uto-Aztecan) and Tacana (Takanan, Amazonian Bolivia). The book is concluded by two chapters devoted to modeling cyclical processes in language change from different theoretical perspectives. Key notions discussed throughout the book include affirmative and negative existential constructions, the expansion of the latter into verbal negation, and subsequently from more specific to more general markers of negation. Nominalizations as well as the uses of negative existentials as standalone negative answers figure among the most frequent pathways whereby negative existentials evolve as general negation markers. The operation of the Negative Existential Cycle appears partly genealogically conditioned, as the cycle is found to iterate regularly within some families but never starts in others, as is the case in Bantu. In addition, other special negation markers such as nominal negators are found to undergo similar processes, i.e. they expand into the verbal domain and thereby develop into more general negation markers. The book provides rich information on a specific path of the evolution of negation, on cyclical processes in language change, and it show-cases the historical-comparative method in a modern setting.
Book Synopsis Aspects of the Tumbuka Verb by : Hazen Leroy Vail
Download or read book Aspects of the Tumbuka Verb written by Hazen Leroy Vail and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Tumbuka from 1400 to 1900 by : Yizenge Chondoka
Download or read book A History of the Tumbuka from 1400 to 1900 written by Yizenge Chondoka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on the history of the Tumbuka that traces their origin from the Luba Kingdom in the present Democratic Republic of Congo to where they are settled today. It details their leaders, the routes they used, the kingdom they formed, and the many cultural practices they have followed, and how from the eighteenth century, their kingdom was invaded and ruled by many non-Tumbuka ethnic groups that were eventually absorbed in their culture. The study was overdue. Fortunately, the delay has been rewarded because the duty of doing this important work fell in good hands . . . The book improves our understanding of the Tumbuka in the twentieth century and beyond . . . Probably the strongest strength of the book is that the general reader and the specialist will find it easy to read.Professor Ackson Kanduza, History Department, University of Swaziland.
Book Synopsis Dancing Prophets by : Steven M. Friedson
Download or read book Dancing Prophets written by Steven M. Friedson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Languages by : Andrew Dalby
Download or read book Dictionary of Languages written by Andrew Dalby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Book Synopsis Quotative Indexes in African Languages by : Tom Güldemann
Download or read book Quotative Indexes in African Languages written by Tom Güldemann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.
Book Synopsis The Bantu Languages by : Derek Nurse
Download or read book The Bantu Languages written by Derek Nurse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
Book Synopsis The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian 1924-2024 by : Kenneth Ross
Download or read book The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian 1924-2024 written by Kenneth Ross and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in issues of church unity, justice, liberation, biblical transformation, dignity, hope, joy, resilience, peace, prayer and reconciliation. The best Malawian scholars have drawn from their academic expertise and personal experience to give the reader a thick picture of the journey of unity among the Synods of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This publication is a must-have for all who have the unity of the CCAP at heart." Prof Isabel Apawo Phiri, Former Deputy General Secretary, World Council of Churches and Vice Chancellor, University of Blantyre Synod
Book Synopsis Tense and Aspect in Bantu by : Derek Nurse
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Bantu written by Derek Nurse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures by : Prakash Mondal
Download or read book The Cognitive Variation of Semantic Structures written by Prakash Mondal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cognitive constraints and principles of variation in structures of linguistic meaning across languages. It unifies cognitive-semantic representations with formal-semantic representations to make a unique contribution to the study of typological generalizations and universals in natural language semantics. This unified approach not only helps reveal why semantic structures have the observed variation they have but also sheds light on the compelling cognitive and formal regularities and patterns in the variation of linguistic semantics. The book also advances the general principles of a cognitively oriented semantic typology. Lucid and topical, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of language typology, linguistics, cognitive linguistics and semantics. It will also be of interest to theoretical linguists of both cognitivist and formalist schools.
Download or read book Journal of Religion in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Bantu, Khoisan and Malagasy in the Strange Collection of Africana by : Johannesburg (South Africa). Public Library
Download or read book Catalogue of Bantu, Khoisan and Malagasy in the Strange Collection of Africana written by Johannesburg (South Africa). Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herero: 12 entries; Ndonga: 3; Kwanyama: 3; Bushman: 12; "Hottentot": 5; Nama: 26; Korana: 6.
Book Synopsis South-east Central Africa and Madagascar by : International African Institute
Download or read book South-east Central Africa and Madagascar written by International African Institute and published by London. This book was released on 1961 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".
