ISBN:
389645093X
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9783896450937
Language:
English
Pages:
385 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Series Statement:
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 20
Series Statement:
Special Vol.
Series Statement:
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika
DDC:
490
Keywords:
Languages in contact Congresses History
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Linguistic change Congresses History
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African languages Congresses History
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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Afrikanische Sprachen
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Sprachkontakt
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Sprachwandel
;
Geschichte
Note:
Preface ; Language contact, language change and history based on language sources in Africa
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Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of southern Africa and how can this be detected?
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Semantic vagueness and cross-linguistic lexical fragmentation in Bantu : impeding factors for linguistic palaeontology
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Writing, oral traditions and the construction of ethnic identities
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Esterogeny and localist strategies in a Nuba mountain community
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Language history in SE Angola : the Ngangela-Nyemba dialect cluster
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Crossing the linguistic divide between Namibian Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe : possible directions for future research
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A sketch of pre-colonial metalworking in northern Namibia and southern Angola
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Historiography on the basis of contemporary linguistic data : the Herero case
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Language contact, areality, and history : the Songhay question revisited
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Social networks, linguistic variation and micro change in an African context : a case study in the borderland of Mali and Burkina Faso
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Layered language genesis in the "catch basin" of the Linyanti and Okavango swamps : the case of Yeyi
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Folktales as a source for historical traces : the reintroduction of iron working along the central Kavango
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Cultured contact : ritualisation and semantics in Jukun
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General bibliography ; Index of languages and subjects ; Addresses of contributors.
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