23.2170, Books: Aspects of Reduplication in Languages of Cameroon and Senegal: Tamanji, Mba (Eds)

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Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:16:45
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Aspects of Reduplication in Languages of Cameroon and Senegal: Tamanji, Mba (Eds)

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Title: Aspects of Reduplication in Languages of Cameroon and Senegal 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 23  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu 


Editor: Pius Ngwa Tamanji
Editor: Gabriel Mba

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862883059 Pages: 201 Price: Europe EURO 65.80


Abstract:

The present volume contains a study of reduplication in a variety of African 
languages and from different analytical perspectives. In all, the volume brings 
together thirteen papers with data from 15 languages in Cameroon and 1 in 
Senegal. While some of the papers give new impetus to issues of 
reduplication, others reflect the broad perspective of studies on reduplication 
as practised today. 

Six papers on Isu, Medumba, Bafut, Nweh and Bantu zone A languages 
analyse a variety of reduplication phenomena using fairly recent theoretical 
models including MDT, generative grammar and discourse analysis. Major 
issues covered include the widespread palatal infix in Grassfields Bantu, a 
nasal infix in lexical reduplication, sources and patterns of association of 
reduplication tones, reduplication as a syntactic phenomenon and the role of 
reduplication in discourse. 

Seven other papers on Bambele, Ghomala', Fe'fe', Limbum, Saafi Saafi, 
Mengisa and Kenyang present an interesting array of data on reduplication 
and, in addition, reflect a broad perspective of studies on reduplication. The 
diversity of approaches adopted makes interesting reading and represent, as 
such, a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough understanding 
of reduplication in African languages. 

Table of contents

Introduction	

High vowel reduplication and infix genesis in Isu (West Ring) 
Roland Kießling

Sources of tones and patterns of their assignment to reduplicated forms in 
Bafut
Ayu'nwi N. Neba

Morphological and Phonologically-induced Insertion in Word Reduplication 
and Syntactic Repetition in Grassfields Bantu
Constantine Kouankem

Reduplication, word categories and sentence structure in Bafut
Pius N. Tamanji

Productive and Non-productive reduplication patterns in Bantu Zone A 
(Northwest) languages 
Gratien G. Atindogbé and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka

Nweh Reduplication Patterns 
Justina Atemajong Njika

Reduplication in Saafi-Saafi 
Hillebrand Dijkstra

Modes and mechanisms of reduplication in Limbum 
Gratiana Ndamsah

A morpho-syntactic account of reduplication in Béèmbéléè 
Gabriel Delmon Djomeni

Notes on reduplication in Kenyang 
Gabriel Mba

La Réduplication en ghómaàlaà' 
Gabriel Mba

La reduplication en fe'efe'e 
E. Sadembouo

Processus phonologiques et semantique de la reduplication en Beti-Fang : Le 
cas de la variante mengisa	
Julia Ndibnu Messina Ethe 



Linguistic Field(s): African linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic


Written In: English  (eng)

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