Topics In Chadic Linguistics Iii
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| Author | : H. Ekkehard Wolff |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2022-06-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009021443 |
Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language contact. This pioneering study explores the development of the sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major branch of the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from about 60 different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks the specific phonological principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse phonological evolution, arguing that their diversity results to no little extent from historical processes of 'prosodification' of reconstructable segments of the proto-language. The book offers meticulous historical analyses of some 60 words from Proto-Central Chadic, in up to 60 individual modern languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular emphasis is on tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of palatalisation and labialisation prosodies within a phonological system that, on its deepest level, recognises only one vowel phoneme */a/.
| Author | : Ekkehard Wolff |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Chadic languages |
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| Author | : Ghil‘ad Zuckermann |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2014-07-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1443864625 |
This refereed volume is a collection of selected scholarly articles resulting from research conducted for the first international Australian Workshop on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics (AWAAL), held on 11–13 September 2009 at the State Library of Queensland, Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane; as well as at the Great Court, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane. The University of Queensland has been home to scholars and linguists such as Georges Perec, Eric Partridge and Rodney Huddleston. World-class papers were delivered by established academics and promising postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students from all over the globe, including Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States. They all analysed languages and cultures belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family, e.g. Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and Semitic.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Chadic languages |
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| Author | : H. Ekkehard Wolff |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2023-11-23 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1009346385 |
Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.
| Author | : Henry Tourneux |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Chadic languages |
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| Author | : Jan Wohlgemuth |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2010-03-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110220938 |
Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.
| Author | : Tom Güldemann |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1034 |
| Release | : 2018-09-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110421666 |
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 | : Stefan Weninger |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 1298 |
| Release | : 2011-12-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110251582 |
The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
| Author | : Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027278512 |
The volume consists of papers prepared for the International Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, May 1-2, 1987). Although the papers are representative of the current work being done in the field of Chadic linguistics, they also reflect the current and past interests and methodologies of general linguistics. The papers included in the volume should therefore be of interest to a general linguist as much as to the Chadicist or a specialist in some other Afroasiatic branch. The papers are grouped by the areas of linguistic fields and methodologies. Papers on syntax are followed by papers on morphology, phonology, and methodology of historical reconstruction.
