28.3032, Books: Shanga Dictionary: Jones

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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:41:14
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Shanga Dictionary: Jones

 


Title: Shanga Dictionary 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Dictionaries 67  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LW/D-67-Shanga-Dictionary/en 


Author: Ross McCallum Jones

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888078 Pages: 213 Price: Europe EURO 78.80


Abstract:

The Shanga dictionary, with English finderlist, was compiled in Nigeria over a
seven year period while doing Bible translation. It forms a trilogy together
with the simultaneously published Illo-Busa and Kyanga dictionaries. This
cluster of languages belongs to the Eastern sub-division of the Mande language
family. Dictionaries of the other three languages of this cluster, Boko,
Bokobaru and Busa/Bisã, also compiled by the author, were published in 2004
by Lincom Europa.
The database is stem based so that any word that begins with a lexeme stem
will appear as a sub-entry under that lexeme. The 5000+ head and subwords are
written in Shanga orthography, followed by phonetic representations, including
tones, a part of speech label and glosses in English.

Borrowed words, etymology, synonyms and variants are given as appropriate,
with extensive borrowings from Hausa and English. Shanga is a break-away from
Kyanga but exhibits extensive variation. The 48 page introduction includes an
historical survey and a summary of Shanga phonology and grammar. The author’s
PhD thesis, the Boko/Busa Language Cluster, describing the grammar of Boko,
Bokobaru and Bisã, was published by Lincom Europa in 1998.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography

Subject Language(s): Shanga (sho)


Written In: English  (eng)

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