The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics

Herausgeber: Agwuele, Augustine; Bodomo, Adams

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of African Linguistics provides coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780367581527
• ISBN-10: 0367581523
• Artikelnr.: 66597065

Autorenporträt

Augustine Agwuele is Professor of Linguistics. He integrates the conceptual rigors of theoretical linguistics with ethnographically grounded scholarship in socio-cultural anthropology, language and culture, and studies of peoples and cultures of Africa in order to address common and habitual practices involved in encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages. Adams Bodomo is Professor of African Studies (holding the Chair of African Languages and Literatures) at the University of Vienna. He specializes in formal theoretical linguistics, Afriphone literature, cross-cultural communication, digital humanities (languages and literatures in new media), computer-mediated communication for linguistics and literacy; and diaspora and international studies involving Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Section 1. History, Method, and Typology
1. Sara Pugach. "
A Short History of African Language Studies in the Nineteenth and early
Twentieth Centuries, with an Emphasis on German Contributions"
1. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. "
Historical linguistics in an African context: A brief state of the art"
2. Bruce Connell. "Linguistic Research in African Field"
3. Constance Kutsch Lojenga. "Tone and Tonology in African Languages"
4. Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, & Ernest S. Akerejola "A
system¿ based typology of MOOD in Niger-Congo languages"
Section 2. Sound and syllable System
5. Augustine Agwuele. "
Coarticulation: Segmental and Suprasegmental Interaction in Yoruba"
6. Michael Cahill. "
Labial-velars of Africa: phonetics, phonology, and historical development"
7. Mohamed Lahrouchi. "
Syllable structure and vowel/zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and
Berber"
8. John R. Rennison. "Vowel harmony (beyond ATR) and its impact on
morphological parsing"
Section 3. Phrase and Sentence System
9. Dorothee Beerman & Lars Hellan. "West African Serial verb construction
10. Nike Lawal. "Long Distance Anaphors in Yoruba and the Binding Theory"
11. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo. "The Encoding of Information Structure in African
Languages"
12. Brent Henderson. "Bantu Applicatives and Chimiini Instrumentals"
13. Samuel Alhassan ISSAH. "The form and function of Dagbani demonstratives"
14. Zygmunt Frajzyngier. "The syntax and its implications of experiencer
predications in Africa"
Section 4. Language and Society: Theory and Practice
15. Keir Hansford. "Who are you translating for? Translation theory and some
West African languages"
16. Elvis Yevudey. "The representative of African languages and cultures on
social media: A case of Ewe in Ghana"
17. Arvi Hurskainen. "Sustainable language technology of African languages"
18. Paul Agbedor. "Language planning for development in Ghana: Problems and
prospects"
Section 5. Creative Expressions and Cultural life
19. Heather Brooks & Roland Kouassi. "The language of youth in Africa: A
sociocultural linguistic analysis
20. Sandra N. Barasa. "Clash or click? An analysis of theoretical assumptions
and their application to Youth languages in Africa"
21. Heather Brookes. "Gestures and gesturing on the African continent