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The Language Families Of Africa
Author: A Werner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-10
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0429868340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.
African Languages
Author: Bernd Heine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-03
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521666299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Author: Rainer Vossen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 0199609896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Une source inconnue indique : "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."
The Languages of Africa
Author: Joseph Harold Greenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diversity in African languages
Author: Doris L. Payne
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 2016-12-31
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 3946234704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development. These chapters represent nine different genera: Mande, Gur, Kwa, Edoid, Bantu, Nilotic, Gumuzic, Cushitic, and Omotic. Other chapters investigate a mix of languages and families, moving from typological issues to sociolinguistic and inter-ethnic factors that affect language and accent switching. Some chapters are primarily descriptive, while others push forward the theoretical understanding of tone, semantic problems, discourse related structures, and other linguistic systems. The papers on Bantu languages reflect something of the internal richness and continued fascination of the family for linguists, as well as maturation of research on the family. The distribution of other papers highlights the need for intensified research into all the language families of Africa, including basic documentation, in order to comprehend linguistic diversities and convergences across the continent. In this regard, the chapter on Daats’íin (Gumuzic) stands out as the first-ever published article on this hitherto unknown and endangered language found in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border lands.
Language and Development in Africa
Author: Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1107088550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past
Author: R. Blench
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780759104662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholarly work that attempts to match linguistic and archaeological evidence in precolonial Africa
A History of African Linguistics
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
The Languages and Linguistics of Africa
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 1180
ISBN-13: 3110421755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
