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| Author | : Hounkpati B.C. Capo |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2010-10-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110870533 |
A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics, No 14).
| Author | : Keith Snider |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2012-05-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110869373 |
| Author | : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2011-06-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027287228 |
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.
| Author | : Matthias Brenzinger |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2012-10-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110870606 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
| Author | : Claire Lefebvre |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027206767 |
Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general. Several contradictory proposals have been put forward in the literature. For example, creole languages typologically pair with their superstrate languages (Chaudenson 2003), with their substrate languages (Lefebvre 1998), or even, creole languages are alike (Bickerton 1984) such that they constitute a definable typological class (McWhorter 1998). This book contains 25 chapters bearing on detailed comparisons of some 30 creoles and their substrate languages. As the substrate languages of these creoles are typologically different, the detailed investigation of substrate features in the creoles leads to a particular answer to the question of how creoles should be classified typologically. The bulk of the data show that creoles reproduce the typological features of their substrate languages. This argues that creoles cannot be claimed to constitute a definable typological class."
| Author | : S. J. Hannahs |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027237034 |
This volume contains revised, expanded and updated versions of papers originally presented at the International Workshop on Phonological Structure held at the University of Durham in September 1994. As the title suggests, the contributions focus on aspects of phonological structure, both segment internal and suprasegmental. A number of questions surrounding phonological structure are approached from a wide variety of theoretical standpoints, including the frameworks of prosodic phonology, declarative phonology, optimality theory, metrical phonology, government phonology, feature geometry, particle theory and dependency phonology. This range of viewpoints allows the crossfertilisation of various strands of phonological thinking with respect to many of the central issues concerning phonological structure. The empirical basis of the contributions is also wide-ranging, including among the languages dealt with Aranda, Cayuvava, English, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish.
| Author | : Oluseye Adesola |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 525 |
| Release | : 2015-09-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1443881422 |
Current Research in African Linguistics recognizes and honors Ọladele Awobuluyi’s contributions to African linguistics. The contributors, an international group of scholars, represent four generations of African linguists who have been influenced by Awobuluyi’s work as a scholar and teacher. The papers are organized into three thematic sections, namely applied linguistics and sociolinguistics; phonology and morphology; and syntax and semantics and their interfaces. The wide range of topics investigated in this volume will enhance the reader’s understanding of current issues in the field of African linguistics today. Indeed, the book marks an important contribution to the expanding work on language documentation and comparative linguistics by presenting data and linguistic analysis from a number of different African languages.
| Author | : Charles W. Kreidler |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780415203463 |
Phonology: Critical Concepts, the first such anthology to appear in thirty years and the largest ever published, brings together over a hundred previously published book chapters and articles from professional journals. These have been chosen for their importance in the exploration of theoretical questions, with some preference for essays that are not easily accessible.Divided into sections, each part is preceded by a brief introduction which aims to point out the problems addressed by the various articles and show their relations to one another.-
| Author | : Tom Güldemann |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1085 |
| Release | : 2018-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110421755 |
This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
| Author | : Henning Andersen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2003-04-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027275300 |
Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy — the systematic study of such layers — may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.
