ISBN:
9780191750236
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 1066 Seiten)
,
Karten, Diagramme
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks in linguistics
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of African languages
DDC:
496
Keywords:
African languages
;
African languages
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrikanische Sprachen
Abstract:
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. Africa is believed to host at least one-third of the world’s languages, usually classified into four phyla—Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan—which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including color terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature.
Note:
Introduction
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Central Sudanic
,
Language endangerment, documentation, and revitalization
,
Bom-Kim
,
Saharan
,
Kwa
,
Nilo-Saharan and its limits
,
Linguistic isolates
,
Baale
,
Sandawe
,
Cognition and language
,
Bende
,
Wandala
,
Narratives
,
Ethio-Semitic
,
Reflections on the history of African language classification
,
Kumam
,
Khoisan
,
ǁX'egwi
,
Language birth : youth/town language
,
Chadic
,
Sidaama
,
Phonology and phonetics
,
South Cushitic
,
Ideophones
,
Adamawa
,
Waja
,
Omotic
,
Berber
,
Proverbs
,
Dialectology and language geography
,
Niger-Congo, with a special focus on Benue-Congo
,
Language and ethnobotany
,
African languages in information and communication technology
,
Central Cushitic
,
Kolisi
,
Atlantic
,
Gur
,
Iraqw
,
Mixed languages : the case of Ma'á/Mbugu
,
Sign languages
,
Poetry
,
Tone
,
Ubangi
,
Zande
,
Colour term systems : genetic vs areal distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa
,
Experiencer constructions
,
Biali
,
Kordofanian
,
Mande
,
Language and education
,
Pidgin and Creole language
,
Pragmatics and communication
,
East Cushitic
,
North Cushitic
,
Dan
,
Syntax
,
Arabic in Africa
,
Morphology
,
Cara
,
African language types
,
Afro-Asiatic overview
,
Egyptian
,
Eastern Sudanic
,
Yukuben
,
Zenaga
,
Songhay languages
,
Distinctive languages
,
Conversation analysis
,
Bantu and Bantoid
,
Indigenous African scripts
,
Language policy and politics
,
Language contact
,
African languages in the Diaspora
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Orthography standardization
,
Words, things, and meaning : linguistics as a tool for historical reconstruction
,
Language and archaeology
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199609895.001.0001
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