31.2780, Books: A Grammatical Overview of Lingála: Meeuwis

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:06:15
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammatical Overview of Lingála: Meeuwis

 


Title: A Grammatical Overview of Lingála 
Subtitle: Revised and Extended Edition 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 81 (2nd ed.)  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSAL-81-A-Grammatical-Overview-of-Lingala/en 


Author: Michael Meeuwis

Hardback: ISBN:  9783969390047 Pages: 333 Price: Europe EURO 148


Abstract:

Lingála is a Bantu language with a total of approximately 45 million native
speakers and lingua franca users. It is spoken in the west and north DR Congo
(including in Kinshasa), in the Republic of Congo (including in Brazzaville),
and in northwest Angola. It also continues to strengthen its position as a
secondary lingua franca in parts of the DRC where Kikongo, Swahili, and
Tshiluba are the dominant lingua francas. In addition, it is the main medium
of communication and emblem of Congolese identity among the Central African
diaspora. Lingála’s origins go back to the pidginization of Bobangi in the
1880s, an episode to which it still owes a reduced system of noun class
agreement as well as grammatical and lexical generalizations. This second,
revised and enlarged edition offers thoroughly updated discussions of items
already treated in the first edition (A Grammatical Overview of Lingála,
Lincom Studies in African Linguistics 81, 2010), and especially adds new
analyses of many structures that were not yet covered. It also offers much
more examples, many of which were culled from corpora, to illustrate the
grammatical features and analyses. The account of the sociohistorical
background of Lingála has also been revised and amply extended on the basis of
newly discovered sources.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Lingala (lin)


Written In: English  (eng)

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