35.73, Books: The Cangin Languages: Merrill (2023)

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Subject: 35.73, Books: The Cangin Languages: Merrill (2023)

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Date: 07-Dec-2023
From: Wendy Logeman [wendy.logeman at brill.com]
Subject: The Cangin Languages: Merrill (2023)


Title: The Cangin Languages
Subtitle: Phonological and Morphological Reconstruction and Diachrony
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com
Book URL:
https://brill.com/display/title/63055?contents=editorial-content

author: John  T. M.  Merrill
Abstract:

The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for
years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book
traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a
reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of
historical linguistic methods. This is one of few in-depth historical
treatments of a West African language family, and takes into account
all existing sources, including previously unpublished data from my
own work on Noon. The reconstruction of Proto-Cangin reveals a number
of important features now obscured in the modern languages, including
a surprisingly rich inventory of noun class prefixes, which are of
great importance to the study of the world’s largest language family,
Niger-Congo. Included is a catalogue of over 600 Proto-Cangin
reconstructions.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Cangin

Areal Regions: African

Written In: English (eng)



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