The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics
Author: Augustine Agwuele
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2018-03-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1315392968

The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.

Predication in African Languages

Predication in African Languages
Author: James Essegbey
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027247013

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb serialisation, verb semantics, and nominalization of predicates. The chapters take inspiration from Felix Ameka’s approach to the study of language according to which the main task of a linguist is to collaborate with language users to understand communicative practices in different contexts and to uncover how these practices impact grammatical and semantic aspects of the language. Accordingly, the descriptions and analyses in this book serve to understand language variation in different ecologies, rather than to impose pre-established descriptive frames on less described languages. Together, the chapters in the book represent a bird’s eye view of predication strategies in various African languages and can therefore serve as readings for both introductory and advanced level courses on predication from a typological or comparative perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Author: Rainer Vossen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 2020
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0199609896

Une source inconnue indique : "This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics
Author: Galen Sibanda
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2022-09-06
Genre:
ISBN: 3985540365

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Michigan State University in 2018. The contributions from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America, Africa and other parts of the world, provide a glimpse of the breadth and quality of current research in African linguistics from both descriptive and theoretical perspectives. Fields of interest range from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics to sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, language documentation, computational linguistics and beyond. The articles reflect both the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and the wide range of research areas covered by presenters at ACAL conferences.

A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare

A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Dagaare
Author: Mark Ali
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 365
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3961103232

This book presents an extensive dictionary of the Dagaare language (Niger-Congo; Gur (Mabia)), focussing on the dialect of Central Dagaare, spoken in the Upper West region of Ghana. The dictionary provides comprehensive definitions, example sentences and the English translations, phonetic forms, inflected forms, etymological notes as well as information dialectal variation. This work is intended as a resource for linguists, but also as a resource for Dagaare speakers. Also included is a grammatical sketch of Dagaare contributed by Prof. Adams Bodomo.