The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

Herausgeber: Vossen, Rainer; Dimmendaal, Gerrit J

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 1104
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 184mm x 62mm
• Gewicht: 1877g
• ISBN-13: 9780199609895
• ISBN-10: 0199609896
• Artikelnr.: 58119851

Autorenporträt

Rainer Vossen is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He has published descriptive and comparative studies on Khoisan, Nilotic, Bantu, and Mande languages as well as on dialectological, sociolinguistic, and historical topics. His recent books include the edited volumes The Khoesan Languages (Routledge, 2013), and African Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Studies (Rüdiger Köppe, 2014). Gerrit J. Dimmendaal is Professor of African Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published descriptive and comparative studies on languages belonging to three different language families, Afroasiatic, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan, as well as on anthropological linguistics. His more recent monographs include Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages (Benjamins, 2011) and The Leopard's Spots: Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture (Brill, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of abbreviations
* List of maps, figures, and tables
* The contributors
* 1: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Rainer Vossen: Introduction
* Part I: Domains of Grammar
* 2: Michael J. Kenstowicz: Phonology and phonetics
* 3: David Odden: Tone
* 4: Klaus Beyer: Morphology
* 5: Jochen Zeller: Syntax
* Part II: Language Comparison
* 6: Rainer Vossen: African language types
* 7: Mena Lafkioui: Dialectology and linguistic geography
* 8: Ludwig Gerhardt: Reflections on the history of African language
classification
* Part III: Language Phyla and Families
* 9: Jeff Good: Niger-Congo, with a special focus on Benue-Congo
* 10: Friederike Lüpke: Atlantic
* 11: Henning Schreiber: Mande
* 12: Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu: Kwa
* 13: Gudrun Miehe: Gur
* 14: Lutz Marten: Bantu and Bantoid
* 15: Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer: Adamawa
* 16: Helma Pasch: Ubangi
* 17: Nicolas Quint: Kordofanian
* 18: Victor Porkhomovsky: Afro-Asiatic overview
* 19: Balázs J. Irsay-Nagy: Egyptian
* 20: Maarten Kossmann: Berber
* 21: Mauro Tosco: East Cushitic
* 22: Martine Vanhove: North Cushitic
* 23: Zelealem Leyew: Central Cushitic
* 24: Roland Kießling: South Cushitic
* 25: Bernhard Köhler: Omotic
* 26: Bernard Caron: Chadic
* 27: Victor Porkhomovsky: Ethio-Semitic
* 28: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Nilo-Saharan and its limits
* 29: Norbert Cyffer: Saharan
* 30: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and Angelika Jakobi: Eastern Sudanic
* 31: Pascal Boyeldieu: Central Sudanic
* 32: Henry Honken: Khoisan
* 33: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Linguistic isolates
* Part IV: Languages Structures: Case Studies
* 34: Tucker G. Childs: Bom-Kim
* 35: Valentin Vydrin: Dan
* 36: Coffi Sambiéni: Biali
* 37: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Yukuben
* 38: Yuko Abe: Bende
* 39: Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer: Waja
* 40: Helma Pasch: Zande
* 41: Catherine Taine-Cheikh: Zenaga
* 42: Kazuhiro Kawachi: Sidaama
* 43: Zelealem Leyew: Kolisi
* 44: Maarten Mous: Iraqw
* 45: Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Wandala
* 46: Osamu Hieda: Kumam
* 47: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Baale
* 48: Lameen Souag: Songhay languages
* 49: Rainer Vossen: Cara
* 50: Henry Honken: ¿?X'egwi
* 51: Helen Eaton: Sandawe
* Part V: Language, Cognition, and Culture
* 52: Christa Kilian-Hatz: Ideophones
* 53: Doris L. Payne: Colour term systems: Genetic vs areal
distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa
* 54: Ulrike Zoch: Experiencer constructions
* 55: Karsten Legère: Language and ethnobotany
* 56: Patricia Friedrich: Distinctive languages
* 57: Maren Rüsch: Conversation analysis
* 58: Axel Fleisch: Cognition and language
* Part VI: Language and Society
* 59: Andrij Rovenchak and Solomija Buk: Indigenous African scripts
* 60: Kembo Sure: Language policy and politics
* 61: Ingse Skattum: Language and education
* 62: James Essegbey: Language endangerment, documentation, and
revitalization
* 63: Ellen Hurst: Language birth: youth/town language
* 64: Klaus Beyer: Language contact
* 65: Maarten Mous: Mixed languages: The case of Ma'á/Mbugu
* 66: Andrea Hollington: African languages in the Diaspora
* 67: Gabriele Sommer: Pidgin and creole languages
* 68: Victoria A.S. Nyst: Sign languages
* 69: Jonathan Owens: Arabic in Africa
* 70: Elke Karan and David Roberts: Orthography standardization
* 71: Thomas Bearth: Pragmatics and communication
* 72: Kristin Vold Lexander: African languages in information and
communication technology
* Part VII: Language and History
* 73: David L. Schoenbrun: Words, things, and meaning: Linguistics as a
tool for historical reconstruction
* 74: Koen Bostoen: Language and archaeology
* Part VIII: Language and Orature
* 75: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: Narratives
* 76: Sebastian K. Bemile: Proverbs
* 77: Clarissa Vierke: Poetry
* Language index
* Author index
* Subject index