33.564, Books: The Nilo-Saharan Languages: Bender

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:51:48
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: The Nilo-Saharan Languages: Bender

 


Title: The Nilo-Saharan Languages 
Series Title: LINCOM Handbooks in Linguistics 06  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783895860454%22 


Author: M. Lionel Bender

Paperback: ISBN:  9783895860454 Pages: 270 Price: Europe EURO 129.80


Abstract:

The Nilo-Saharan Phylum is the most controversial outcome of Greenberg's
genetic classification of African languages dating from 1963. It combines a
number of previous "isolates" and its coherence as against the other phyla
(Afrasian, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan) has not been satisfactorily demonstrated.
In this volume, the author undertakes the demonstration, taking as a starting
point major groupings he established in previous morphological comparisons and
then examining a lexical data base of over 600 items from all the documented
languages. The large Central Sudanic and East Sudanic families are represented
by reconstructed forms from previous and forthcoming publications
respectively.

The outcome is a set of 359 reconstructed items divided among Nilo-Saharan
isoglosses (174 in number), isoglosses for subfamilies (83), symbolic forms
(21), areal items (35), items linking Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo (30), and
items linking Nilo-Saharan and Afrasian (26). The last four groups are not
evidence for establishment of Nilo-Saharan as a genetic family, but are
equally important in delimiting the phylum and setting it off from other
phyla, a task which has not been given proper weight in the past.

The book begins with a lengthy and valuable Introduction covering purpose and
method, an annotated list of languages genetically arranged, a demographic and
cultural overview summary of speakers, and typological and areal overviews. A
history of Nilo-Saharan studies is included and in a separate chapter a
detailed comparison with the only competing classification (Ch. Ehret,
forthcoming).

The main body of the text consists of the establishment of proto-Nilo-Saharan
segments and modern reflexes, consideration of the role of morphology, and
representation of the 359 reconstructed forms. Four indices allow the reader
to locate items by semantic set, English gloss, reconstructed head-forms in
alphabetical order, and selected secondary reconstructions under head-forms.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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