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Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Studies in African Linguistic Typology: Voeltz (Ed) 

	
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:38:16
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Studies in African Linguistic Typology: Voeltz (Ed) 
 

Title: Studies in African Linguistic Typology 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 64  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	
Editor: F. K. Erhard Voeltz, University of Cologne

Hardback: ISBN: 9027229759 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO 145.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229759 Pages: 426 Price: U.S. $ 174.00


Abstract:

The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad
perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous
volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and
perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and
orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly
all implicational in nature.

Based upon a detailed survey of a particular linguistic phenomenon in a
given language or language area conclusions are drawn about the general
nature about this phenomenon in the languages of Africa and beyond. They
represent as such a first step that may ultimately lead to a more thorough
understanding of African linguistic structures. This approach is well
justified. Taking the other road, attempting to pick out linguistic details
from often fairly superficially documented languages runs the risk that the
data and its implications for the structure investigated might be
misunderstood. Consequentially only very few studies of this nature giving
the very broad perspective, the overview of a particular structure type
covering the whole African continent are represented here. 


Table of contents

Introduction 
F. K. Erhard Voeltz ix-xiii  

Future tense and aspect marking in Southern Bantu 
Herman M. Batibo 1-12  

The marking of directional deixis in Somali: How typological idiosyncratic
is it? 
Philippe Bourdin 13-41  

A typology of subject and object markers in African languages 
Denis Creissels 43-70  

Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area 
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 71-92  

Agent phrases in Bantu passives 
Axel Fleisch 93-111  

Grammaticalization of switch reference: Motivation and means 
Zygmunt Frajzyngier 113-130  

Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in
Northeast Africa 
Tom Güldemann 131-154  

The OHO constraint 
Richard J. Hayward 155-169  

The word in Luganda. 
Larry M. Hyman and Francis X. Katamba 171-193  

Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior 
Christa König 195-207  

The typology of relative clause formation in African languages 
Tania Kuteva and Bernard Comrie 209-228  

Deictic categories in particles and demonstratives in three Gur languages 
Kézié Koyenzi Lébikaza 229-249  

Preprefix or not - that is the question: The case of Kwangali, Kwanyama and
Ndonga 
Karsten Legere 251-262  

Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber): A typological perspective 
Amina Mettouchi 263-276  

Grammaticalization chains of the verb Kàre 'to give' in Kabba 
Rosmarie Moser 277-301  

Selectors in Cushitic 
Maarten Mous 303-325  

How Bantu is Kiyansi? A re-examination of its verbal inflections 
Salikoko S. Mufwene 327-335  

Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages 
Brigitte Reineke and Gudrun Miehe 337-360  

Structure and function of incorporation processes in compounding 
Claudia Maria Riehl and Christa Kilian-Hatz 361-376  

Toward a typological perspective for Emai's BE constructions. 
Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis Oisaghaede Egbokhare 377-396  

Intrinsic focus and focus control in two varieties of Hausa 
H. Ekkehard Wolff 397-415  

Language index  417-419  

Name index  421-423  

Subject index  425-426 



Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Hausa (hau)
                     Kaba (ksp)
                     Kwanyama (kua)
                     Kwangali (kwn)
                     Kabyle (kab)
                     Ganda (lug)
                     Ndonga (ndo)
                     Somali (som)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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