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Author : Ekkehard Wolff
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997 written by Ekkehard Wolff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Atindogbe, Gratien G.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956764388
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012 written by Atindogbe, Gratien G. and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.
Author : G. Atindogbe
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956764981
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012 written by G. Atindogbe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.
Author : Siegbert Uhlig
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447047999
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25, 2003 written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies took place in Hamburg in July 2003. More than 400 scientists from over 25 countries participated. 130 contributions from the program were selected for this volume. They are mostly written in English and deal on the regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea and cover the span from the 4th Century to the present. The volume is divided into the following chapters: Anthropology (20 Articles), History (25), Arts (10), Literature and Philology (10), Religion (5), Languages and Linguistics (25), Law and Politics (10), Environmental, Economic and Educational Issues (10).
Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295883
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to African Languages written by G. Tucker Childs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author’s lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author’s own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
Author : F. K. Erhard Voeltz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293570
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Studies in African Linguistic Typology written by F. K. Erhard Voeltz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly all implicational in nature. Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the data and its implications for the structure investigated might be misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type covering the whole African continent are represented here.
Author : Jason Kandybowicz
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100365
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book African linguistics on the prairie written by Jason Kandybowicz and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.
Author : Akinbiyi Akinlabi
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Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003 written by Akinbiyi Akinlabi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Elugbe u. Tayo Bankale: Cognation Percentages in Benue-Congo-Implications for Internal Classification / Larry Hyman: Why Describe African Languages? / H. Ekkehard Wolff: Segments and Prosodies in Chadic-On Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy, Historical Reconstructions, and the Status of Lamang-Hdi / Oluseye Adesola: Coda Deletion in the Yoruba Loan Phonology / Akinbiyi Akinlabi u. Alexander Iwara: Transparency and Opacity in Lokaa Vowel Harmony / Michael Cahill: Marked Tones and Texture-The Necessity of High Tones in K°Anni / Bruce Connell: Pitch Realization of Questions and Statements in Mambila / Yoshihito Dobashi: Phonological Phrasing in Sandawe / Laura J. Downing: Constraint and Complexity in Subsegmental Representations / Alexander Iwara: The Grammatical Function of Tone on Lokaa / Rose O. Aziza: Negation in Southwestern Edoid-The Case of Urhobo / Christa Beaudoin-Lietz, Derek Nurse u. Sarah Rose: Pronominal Object Marking in Bantu / Stefan Elders: Distributed Predicative Syntax in Doyayo-Constituent Order Alternations and Cliticization / Zygmunt Fraijzyngier u. Mohammed Munkaila: Point of View of the Subject as a Grammatical Category / Jason Kandybowicz: Predicate Clefts, Derivations, and Universal Grammar / Roland Kiessling: "The giraffes burst throw emerge climb pass through the roof of the hut"-Verbal Serialisation in the West Ring Languages (Isu, Weh, Aghem) / Zelealem Leyew: The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages / Michael R. Marlo: Prefixal Reduplication in Lusaamia-Evidence from Morphology / Philip W. Rudd: "Haya, Basi" "Okay so" Markers of Management and Interaction in Swahili Conversation / Josephat M. Rugemalira: Locative Arguments in Bantu / Ken Safir: On Person as a Model for Logophoricity / Ronald P. Schaefer u. Francis O. Egbokhare: Emai Contact Constructions: Beyond Verbs in Series / Helga Schröder: The Relevance of Verbal Morphology in Toposa Discourse / Anne Storch: Traces of a Secret Language-Circumfixes in Hone (Jukun) Plurals / Weldu Michael Weldyesus: Locative Predication in Tigrinya / Tunde Adegbola: Probabilistically Speaking: A Quantitative Exploration of Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy / Rachélle Gauton, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver u. Linkie Mohlala: A Corpus-based Investigation of the Zulu Nominal Suffix -kazi - A Preliminary Study / Wanjiku Nganga: Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation-Kiswahili Nouns / Koen Bostoen: The Vocabulary of Pottery Fashioning Techniques in Great Lakes Bantu-A Comparative Onomasiological Study / Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche: Reconstruction of Initial Velar and Labial-Velar Consonants at the Pre-Lower Cross-Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid Stage of Benue-Congo / Henry Tourneux: Évolution Morphologique et syntaxique du parler des jeunes "Kotoko" de Goulfe (Cameroun) / Kay Williamson: Implosives in Mande-Atlantic-Congo / Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum: Bantu Gender Revisited through an Analysis of Basaá Categories-A Typological Perspective / Herman M. Batibo: The Role of the External Setting in Language Shift Process-The Case of the Nama-Speaking Ovaherero in Tshabong / Paul D. Fallon: The Best is Not Good Enough-Scouring a Previously Documented Language for More / Aurélia Ferrari: Le sheng: Expansion et Vernacularisation d'une Variété Urbaine Hybride à Nairobi / Helene Fatima Idris: The Status and Use of African Languages versus Arabic in Sudan-A Sociolinguistic Survey in Nyala, Darfur / H.R.T. Muzale: Developing a Language in a Complex Situation: Prospects and Challenges of Tanzanian Sign Language / Francis O. Oyebade u. T.O. Agoyi: The Endangered Status of Marginalised Languages-Sosan and Ùkuè as Case Study / Solomon Oluwole Oyetade: Language Endangerment in Nigeria-Perspectives with the Akpes Cluster of Akoko Languages / Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter: Contact de Langues au Brésil-les Langues Africaines et le Portugais Brésilien / Eno-Abasi E. Urua: Language Marginalization-the Lower Cross Experience
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Ulrich Ammon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199874
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Volume 3 written by Ulrich Ammon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SOCIOLINGUISTICS (AMMON) 3.TLBD HSK 3.3 2A E-BOOK".
Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191669326
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Word written by John R. Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri; word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word games, puns, and puzzles. Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words; and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words. Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the curiosity of the educated reader.
Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8867286919
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Africa. II/1, 2020 written by AA. VV. and published by Viella Libreria Editrice. This book was released on 2020-03-18T18:06:00+01:00 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articoli / Articles Jon Abbink, On “Good Governance”: Towards Reconciling State and Vernacular Views in Southwest Ethiopia Erika Grasso, Mapping a “Far Away” Town: Ethnic Boundaries and Everyday Life in Marsabit (Northern Kenya) Rosanna Tramutoli, A Sociolinguistic Description of Gíing’áwêakshòoda: A Register of Respect Among Barbaig Speakers in Tanzania Alice Bellagamba and Marco Gardini, What is a “Slave”? Neo-Abolitionism and the Shifting Meanings of Slavery in Two African Contexts (Highlands of Madagascar, Southern Senegal) Joanna Lewis, Dynasties and Decolonization: Chieftaincy, Politics and the Use of History at the Victoria Falls, from the Precolonial to the Post-independence Period Tom McCaskie, Alcohol and the Travails of Asantehene Osei Yaw Autori / Contributors
Author : Bernhard Hurch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110911469
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Studies on Reduplication written by Bernhard Hurch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of publications have dealt with reduplication in the past 20 years. Reduplication lends itself perfectly as a test field for theories that opt for a non-segmental organization of phonology and morphology. As it happens frequently, then, the discussion centers around a rather small set of data for which alternative analysis are offered, and which themselves are intended to contribute to the foundation of new theoretical developments. The present volume (which goes back to a conference on reduplication at the University of Graz, Austria) offers a broader approach to reduplication not only from different theoretical viewpoints, but especially for its phenomenology. Across theories a number of highly qualified authors deal with formal and functional perspectives, with typological properties, with semantics, comparative issues, the role of reduplication in language acquisition, the acquisition of reduplicative systems, sign languages, creoles and pidgins, general grammatical and cognitive principles; the picture is completed by a series of language or language-family specific studies as on Uto-Aztecan, Salish, Tupi-Guarani, Moroccan and Cairene Arabic, various African languages, Chinese, Turkish, Indo-European, languages from India, etc. The overall scope of the conference was to contribute to a new level of discussion of the phenomenon, across theories and across specializations and interests. Update on Contributor's addresses (PDF)
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218445
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Loanwords in the World's Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521666299
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (662 download)
Download or read book African Languages written by Bernd Heine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.
Author : Makoto Yamazaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110763567
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080877753
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
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