[Lingtyp] New open access publication: Families, areas, and pools aplenty: a Festschrift for Tom Güldemann

Lee Pratchett lpratchett at isfas.uni-kiel.de
Fri Sep 5 11:36:06 UTC 2025


We are pleased to announce the recent publication of "Families, areas, 
and pools aplenty: a Festschrift for Tom Güldemann", edited by Ines 
Fiedler and Lee J. Pratchett and published by Humboldt-Universität zu 
Berlin.

Professor of African languages and linguistics at the 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Tom Güldemann's research spans a vast 
array of different topics and areas of linguistics, not to mention the 
many languages and language families in Africa and beyond. This is 
reflected in the diversity of the 33 contributions to the volume, 
organised in such a way that reflects Tom's macro-areal approach to 
African linguistics (Güldemann 2018, inter alia). As such, the 
Festschrift comprises sections on the Kalahari Basin, the Bantu spread 
zone, the Macro-Sudan belt, the Central transition sphere ([a] the 
Sahel), and the Nuba mountain accretion zone. Some papers treat whole 
regions or pools of languages, or even the entire continent. Finally, 
the Festschrift rounds up with the section Beyond Africa.

The publication is fully open access and the entire volume can be found 
and downloaded here [1].

Chapters can be downloaded individually here [2].

Happy reading!

With our best wishes,
Ines Fiedler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and
Lee Pratchett (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
-- 
Dr. Lee J. Pratchett (he/er)
Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Leibnizstraße 10, Raum 408
D-24118, Kiel

ISFAS [3]
Kalahari Basin Area Network [4]
www.vimeo.com/kbanetwork [5]

Links:
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[1] https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/57481bd5-d00c-48f2-9b77-c69119ffa5b1
[2] 
https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/collections/12832bbd-4cdd-44b9-a31b-ea6221a74074
[3] 
https://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/mitarbeitende/dr-lee-pratchett
[4] http://www.kalaharibasinarea.net
[5] http://www.vimeo.com/kbanetwork
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