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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:14:32
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Diversity in African languages: Payne, Pacchiarotti, Bosire (eds.)

 


Title: Diversity in African languages 
Subtitle: Selected papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics 
Series Title: Contemporary African Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/121 


Editor: Doris L. Payne
Editor: Sara Pacchiarotti
Editor: Mokaya Bosire

Electronic: ISBN:  9783946234708 Pages: 600 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the
46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of
Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of
their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or
historical development. These chapters represent nine different genera: Mande,
Gur, Kwa, Edoid, Bantu, Nilotic, Gumuzic, Cushitic, and Omotic. Other chapters
investigate a mix of languages and families, moving from typological issues to
sociolinguistic and inter-ethnic factors that affect language and accent
switching. Some chapters are primarily descriptive, while others push forward
the theoretical understanding of tone, semantic problems, discourse related
structures, and other linguistic systems. The papers on Bantu languages
reflect something of the internal richness and continued fascination of the
family for linguists, as well as maturation of research on the family. The
distribution of other papers highlights the need for intensified research into
all the language families of Africa, including basic documentation, in order
to comprehend linguistic diversities and convergences across the continent. In
this regard, the chapter on Daats’íin (Gumuzic) stands out as the first-ever
published article on this hitherto unknown and endangered language found in
the Ethiopian-Sudanese border lands.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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