Download or read book African linguistics on the prairie written by Jason Kandybowicz and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Bantu written by Derek Nurse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website.
Download or read book Igikuria Phonology and Morphology written by Jelle Cammenga and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuria ist eine östliche Bantu-Sprache und gehört demnach zum Niger-Kongo-Zweig (Guthries Klassifikation E.40). Die Sprecherzahl wird in Kenia und Tansania zusammen auf mehr als 400.000 geschätzt. Die Daten für die vorliegende Studie wurden fast ausschließlich in Kenia, im wesentlichen von Februar bis Oktober 1986 und von Februar bis Mai 1987 gesammelt. Aufgrund der wenigen existierenden Informationen zur Kuria-Dialektologie, wurde das Hauptaugenmerk der Studie auf die Erstellung einer klaren und umfassenden Darstellung des phonologischen und morphologischen Systems gelegt. Dabei wird herausgestellt, daß das Kuria scheinbar weitaus intensiver vom tansanischen als kenianischen Swahili beeinflußt wurde; in Kenia steigt der Einfluss des Swahili und Englischen gleichermaßen. Die geringe Menge an verfügbarer Literatur und der Forschungsstand waren Gründe für die Veröffentlichung dieser Studie. Auch die Tatsache, daß sich das Kuria seit den 1970er Jahren schneller denn je zu verändern scheint, machten die Studie notwendig. Das Werk besteht aus einem Hauptteil zur Kuria-Phonologie und Morphologie und drei Anhängen. Der erste stellt eine aktualisierte, kommentierte Bibliographie der Publikationen zu Kuria-Sprache und Völkern dar. Der zweite beinhaltet eine kurze Liste der Kuria-Literatur, der dritte enthält linguistisch relevante Informationen zum Hauptinformanten. Das Ziel des Buches ist, wesentlich dazu beizutragen, die beträchtliche deskriptive Lücke innerhalb der Subgruppe der östlichen Bantusprachen zu schließen, die Beschreibung des Kuria zu verbessern und eine zuverlässigere Basis für zukünftige Forschungen zu liefern.
Download or read book The Bantu Languages written by Mark Van de Velde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.
Download or read book The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages written by Raija Kramer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Download or read book Different Slants on Grammaticalization written by Sylvie Hancil and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.
Download or read book Advances in Contact Linguistics written by Norval Smith and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field.
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