Towards a Linguistic History of Africa
Title | Towards a Linguistic History of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Biddulph |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 62 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
A History of African Linguistics
Title | A History of African Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | H. Ekkehard Wolff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2019-06-13 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1108417973 |
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa
Title | Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Maddieson |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780865436329 |
For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
Language and History in Africa
Title | Language and History in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | David Dalby |
Publisher | Frank Cass Publishers |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
History and the Testimony of Language
Title | History and the Testimony of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ehret |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520262042 |
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly served by written documentation, but also to enrich our understanding of well-documented regions and eras. A leading historian as well as historical linguist of Africa, Ehret provides in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his comprehensive treatment can be applied by linguistically trained historians and historical linguists working with any language and in any area of the world.
Swahili and Sabaki
Title | Swahili and Sabaki PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Nurse |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 813 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0520097750 |
The Sabaki languages form a major Bantu subgroup and are spoken by 35 million East Africans in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Comoro Islands. The authors provide a historical/comparative treatment of Swahili (and other Sabaki languages), an account of the relationship of Swahili to Sabaki and to other Bantu languages, and some data on contemporary Sabaki languages. Data sets, appendices, maps, and figures present essential information on phonology, lexical makeup, and tense/aspect morphology. The final chapter is a synthesis describing the linguistic and historical relationship of the Sabaki dialects to each other and to hypothetical proto-stages.
The Languages and Linguistics of Africa
Title | The Languages and Linguistics of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Güldemann |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 1032 |
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.