33.3199, Books: A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic: Ekkehard

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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:02:54
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic: Ekkehard

 


Title: A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic 
Subtitle: Prosodies and Lexical Reconstruction 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/historical-phonology-central-chadic-prosodies-and-lexical-reconstruction?format=HB 


Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff

Hardback: ISBN:  9781316519547 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781316519547 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781316519547 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the
Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally diverse due to a long history
and various scenarios of language contact. This pioneering study explores the
development of the sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major
branch of the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from about 60
different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks the specific
phonological principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse
phonological evolution, arguing that their diversity results to no little
extent from historical processes of 'prosodification' of reconstructable
segments of the proto-language. The book offers meticulous historical analyses
of some 60 words from Proto-Central Chadic, in up to 60 individual modern
languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular emphasis is on
tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of palatalisation and labialisation
prosodies within a phonological system that, on its deepest level, recognises
only one vowel phoneme */a/.
 



Preface; Acknowledgements; Languages and language variants used for
reconstruction as listed in the database; Abbreviations and symbols; 1.
Introduction; 2. Methodological Preliminarie; 3. Proto-Central chadic
diachronic phonology and morphophonology: Inventories and principles; 4.
Diachronic processes in central chadic language evolution; 5. Central chadic
languages and the neogrammarian hypothesis; 6. Full lexical reconstructions;
References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology


Written In: English  (eng)

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