Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — 332 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 191). Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages,...
University of London, 1984. — 296 p. This study aims at presenting an adequate description of the verbal piece which forms the core of the grammar of Ebira language. Ebira is one of the lesser known languages of Nigeria in which little scholarly work has yet been done. Ebira is my mother tongue. Chapter One gives the general introduction and describes the location (with sketch...
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Publication date: 2007 (1st Ed)
Africa is iconic wildlife, stunning geography, wonderous architecture, and bustling cities - and well over an estimated 1000 languages. Here we give you the 13 that will open your mind - and mouth - to this amazing continent. From Afrikaans to Zulu, talk your way to where you want to go, and what you want to do.
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Bellagio Publishing Network, 2006. — 179 p. Language issues are often complex and controversial, particularly for many African countries where multiple languages are spoken. This book explores the trends, challenges, and opportunities of publishing in African languages from national, regional, and international perspectives. Publishers, linguists and educators offer their...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991. — 255 p. — ISBN-10: 088312808X; ISBN-13: 9780883128084. One of the areas in which many languages of Cameroon are particularly rich is their tense-aspect systems. The papers in this collection explore tense-aspect in eight Bantu and Chadic languages of Cameroon: Makaa, Kakɔ, Kɔɔzime, Nɔmaandɛ, Nugunu, Mundani, Podoko, and Mofu-Gudur.
Cerdotola, 1984. — 142 p. ''Situation linguistique en Afrique Centrale, inventaire préliminaire: la République Centrafricaine" est le premier volume de l'Atlas linguistique du Centrafrique qui constitue lui-même la section centrafricaine de l'Atlas linguistique d'Afrique Centrale (ALAC). Il s'agit de la mise en forme et de l'intégration en un volume unique d'un recensement des...
Cerdotola, 2012. — 662 p. Tome 1 - Inventaire des langues Tome 2 - Ébauche d'une bibliographic des langues du Cameroun L’Atlas Linguistique du Cameroun s’actualise et se met à jour sur les traces de son édition originelle publiée en 1983 sous le titre Atlas Linguistique d’Afrique Centrale : le Cameroun, inventaire préliminaire. Ouvrage de référence, cette première publication...
Sense Publishers, 2014. — 149 p. — (Comparative and International Education / Comparative and International Education: a Diversity of Voices). — ISBN10: 9462099456, ISBN13: 978-9462099456. There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a...
Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1988. — 83 p. — (Supplemento n. 57 agli Annali vol. 48 1988, fasc. 4).
This paper is the first attempt to study ethnolinguistically the common of Arabic loanwords in Hausa and Swahili.
Nature.
Man as a physical being.
Man as a spiritual being.
Man as a social being.
Social organization and politics.
Natural laws.
Interjections...
Brill, 2024. — 370 p. — (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 40). The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the...
Paris: Orstom, ACCT, 1989. — 421 p.
Les neuf études réunies dans ce volume portent sur sept langues : deux langues tchadiques ( le zulgo et le podoko ), cinq langues bantu dont deux langues grassfield ( le yemba et le mundani ) et trois langues bantu au sens strict ( le nugunu , le duala et le koozime ). L'intérêt particulier de cet ouvrage est de rassembler des études...
Paris: Éditions de l'ORSTOM, 1993. — 273 p. Барето Д., Нгачуи Э., Скраггс Т. Каталог научных работ по языкам Камеруна (на франц. яз.) Table des matières: Avant-propos. Liste et classification des langues, codes de l'Atlas linguistiqùe du Cameroun. Index par langues. Index par matières. Index par auteurs. Index des organismes et des revues, abréviations. Quelques éléments...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1971. — 988 p. — (Current Trends in Linguistics 7). The History of African Linguistics to 1945 - Desmond T. Cole The Present State of African Linguistics - Paul Schachter West Atlantic: An Inventory of the Languages, their Noun Class Systems, and Consonant Alternation - J. David Sapir Niger-Congo, Mande - Wm. E. Welmers Niger-Congo, Gur - John T....
Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, 2011. — 125 p. The present electronic is a fully revised and updated edition of ‘An Index of Nigerian Languages’ by David Crozier and Roger Blench (1992), which replaced Keir Hansford, John Bendor-Samuel and Ron Stanford (1976), a pioneering attempt to synthesize what was known at the time about the languages of Nigeria and their...
Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, 1978. — 124 p. — (Bibliothèque de la SELAF 65). Etude préliminaire à une dialectologie banda A propos des ressemblances lexicales entre langues Niger-Congo et Nilo-Sahariennes
SELAF, 1974. — 120 p. L'auteur est déjà bien connu pour ses travaux de comparatisme ; il nous présente ici une étude sur le groupe Adamawa, aboutissant à des tableaux commentés de comparaisons, à partir, d'une part, de l'examen des systèmes phonologiques des langues actuelles, et, d'autre part, de reconstructions. The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages...
Akademie-Verlag, 1985. — 229 S. Nach allgemeinen und meist unwidersprochenen Annahmen von Sprachwissenschaftlern und Ethnographen werden auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent etwa 700—1000 verschiedene Sprachen und Dialekte gesprochen, die durch eine annähernd entsprechende Zahl mehr oder weniger fest gefügter ethnischer Einheiten repräsentiert werden. Selbst wenn man einräumen muß,...
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1982. — 284 S. Koval' A.I., Porchomovskij V.J., Vinogradov V.A. Language society in Africa: a sociolinguistic typology. Ochotina N.V. Structural changes in the Bantu languages and their communticative and functional status. Brauner S. Problèmes actuels du developpement des langues nationales en République Populaire du Congo. Brauner S. , Legere K....
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 338 S. — (Meroitica: Schriften zur altsudanesischen Geschichte und Archäologie 29). In 21 Studien behandelt Francis Breyer eine Reihe konkreter Fragen zu Aspekten der Schrift-, Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte Nubiens: Welche Sprache gebrauchten die Träger der C-Gruppe? War Meroitisch die Sprache der Kerma-Elite? Seit wann werden im Niltal...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2004. — 367 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156). Globalisation and African Languages links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include...
QuASAR, 2011. — 292 p. — (Quaderni di lingua e storia 3). Sergio Baldi, Rudolf Leger - Arabic Loans in Bole-Tangale. A closer look to Bole, Karekare, Ngamo, Kupto and Kwami Václav Blažek - Surmic Numerals in the East Cushitic Perspective Vermondo Brugnatelli - Some grammatical features of Ancient Eastern Berber (the language of the Mudawwana) Luca Busetto - Note...
F. Maspero, 1977. — 261 p. — ISBN: 270710857X. « À tous les niveaux de la vie sociale, les hommes parlent, échangent, communiquent. L'ethnolinguistique est l'étude des relations entre la langue, la culture et la société, considérées, soit au niveau de la langue, soit au niveau de la parole. Les études réunies dans cet ouvrage sont dues à des chercheurs africanistes qui se...
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1949. — 130 p. Кэррингтон Дж. Ф. Сравнительное исследование языков центральноафриканских гонгов (на англ. яз.) The history of gong- and drum-language investigation in Africa. Gongs used for message transmission in Central Africa. Signalling with and without a linguistic basis in Africa. Instruments other than gongs and drums used in...
UC Berkeley, 2010. — 290 p. Most formal analyses of the semantics of tense, aspect, and modality (TAM) have been developed on the basis of data from a small number of well-studied languages. In this dissertation, I describe and analyze the TAM system of Badiaranke, an Atlantic (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Senegal, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau, which manifests several...
Université Stendhal, ELLUG, 1991. — 321 p. Крейссельс Дени. Фонологические структуры негро-африканских языков (на франц. яз.) Table des matières: Structures syllabiques. Les systèmes vocaliques. Les systèmes consonantiques. Les alternances consonantiques. Oppositions tonales, types tonals d'unités et alternances tonales. Systèmes tonals. Systèmes tonals restreints et systèmes...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 368 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 87). — ISBN10: 9027206686; ISBN13: 978-9027206688. This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages. Although the topics addressed here reflect a...
Routledge, 2015. — 192 p. First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of...
Foris Publications, 1983. — 362 p. This volume contains a selection of papers read at the 11th Annual Conference on African Linguistics which took place on April 10, 11, and 12, 1980 at Boston University. Thanks are due to George N. Clements, Mary M. Clark, Edward Allen and Harold Fleming for their assistance, to Vincent Kowal for help in editorial matters, to Mark Dyer for his...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN10: 9027211787, ISBN13: 978-9027211781. This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — xvi, 222 p. — (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 11). In The Leopard’s Spots, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but...
Foris Publications, 1986. — 308 p. The present volume contains articles based on papers presented at the 14th Conferenc e on African Linguistics, held at the Universit y of Wisconsin, Madison, on April 7 - 10, 1983. I woul d like to thank the organizer s of the conference, and Lind a Hunter in particular, for hosting the conference. The articles cover a wide variety of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 448 p. — (Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 24). This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone...
University of California Press, 1982. — 289 p. Part I. Northeastern Africa The Coming of Nubian Speakers to the Nile Valley - William Y. Adams Linguistic Aspects of Greater Nubian History - Robin Thelwall Part II. Equatorial Africa Linguistic Inferences about Early Bantu History - Christopher Ehret Linguistic Evidence for the Eastward Spread of Ubangian Peoples Douglas E. Saxon...
Springer, 2022. — 714 p. This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description...
Routledge, 2003. — 267 p. — ISBN 0-203-42257-0.
This volume (first published 1994) is a path-breaking and much needed contribution to the study of the politics of language in modern Africa. Not only does it fill a critical gap in Africanist scholarship, its theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich essays directly engage some of the most pressing issues within both...
Peeters Publishers, 1991. — XXXIX, 392 p., 31 cls. — (Langues et cultures africaines 13; Société pour l'étude des langues africaines 324). Les langues sénégalo-guinéennes présentées dans cet ouvrage comprennent environ 5000 radicaux chacune. Ces trois langues forment un ensemble relativement homogène dans la grande famille atlantique, qui comprend aussi le peul, le sérère et le...
Peeters Publishers, 1991. — 454 p. (393-807, 32-67 cls.) — (Langues et cultures africaines 14; Société pour l'étude des langues africaines 325). Les langues sénégalo-guinéennes présentées dans cet ouvrage comprennent environ 5000 radicaux chacune. Ces trois langues forment un ensemble relativement homogène dans la grande famille atlantique, qui comprend aussi le peul, le sérère...
Peeters Publishers, 1991. — 476 p. (vi, 809-1279) — (Langues et cultures africaines 15; Société pour l'étude des langues africaines 326). Les langues sénégalo-guinéennes présentées dans cet ouvrage comprennent environ 5000 radicaux chacune. Ces trois langues forment un ensemble relativement homogène dans la grande famille atlantique, qui comprend aussi le peul, le sérère et le...
Düsseldorf University Press, 2023. — 204 p. The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax which has been developed on the basis of two leading questions: First, how would a syntactic theory look like which starts from ‘exotic’ languages rather than English? Second, how can the...
LOT, 2006. — 220 p. — ISBN: ISBN: 978-94-6093-013-3. The general objective of this thesis is to determine a typology of verbal derivation in Ethiopian Afro-asiatic languages. As a starting point I analyse the major verbal derivations of causative, middle and passive of Oromo, Amharic and Shakkinoono. These three languages serve as representatives of respectively the Cushitic,...
Yaoundé: Société Internationale de Linguistique, 1990. — 135 p. Гфеллер Э. (ред.) Многоязыкий Камерун. Собрание текстов на языках Камеруна (на англ., франц. и камерунских яз.) Preface / Avant-propos. Way in the past / Dans le temps. At work / Au travail. Writing / Ecriture. Wealth / Richesse. Family / Famille. Life and Death / Vie et Mort. Languages: Mekaa, Kwanja, Podoko,...
Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. — 242 p. — ISBN: 1403933812. The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart...
Indiana University, 1963. — 185 p. The Languages of Africa is a book of essays by the linguist Joseph Greenberg, in which the author sets forth a genetic classification of African languages that, with some changes, continues to be the most commonly used one today. It is an expanded and extensively revised version of his 1955 work Studies in African Linguistic Classification,...
Rüdiger Köppe, 1996. — 356 p. What makes the unity of Cushitic and Omotic studies and the unity of the relatively few scholars working in this field? It is, of course, the clear-cut genetic division of the languages spoken in East Africa. In general it is easy to identify a Cushitic, Omotic or Semitic language. But there is more to it than this. Northeast Africa is a specific...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 1034 p. — (The World of Linguistics 11). 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...
Foris Publications, 1989. — 348 p. Phonrtics and Phonology (Dé)voisement en Somali Central - J.P. Angoujard Tone in Kinyambo - Lee S. Bickmore Three Creole Pitch Systems - Hazel Carter Government and Metrical Harmony in Pulaar 45 Christian Dunn Register Tone and the Phonological Representation of Downstep - Sharon Inkelas The Status of Liquids in Kinande - Ngessimo M. Mutaka...
ACALAN, 2012. — 58 p. The African Academy of languages (ACALAN) is a specialized institution of the African Union whose mandate is to ·empower African languages so that they can be used in all domains of the society in partnership with the languages inherited from colonization, namely English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. The main objective of the harmonisation and...
UNESCO and Société Internationale de Linguistique, 1993. — 311 р. Toute langue parlée et non écrite est une langue vouée à la disparition. Grâce à cette application que vous offre Resulam, vous pouvez apprendre de manière visuelle et sonore l'Alphabet Général des Langues Camerounaises, Gabonaises, L'alphabet africain de référence (ARA), L'alphabet international africain (AIA),...
Publisher unknown. — 2019. — xii, 395 p. Pere (in the literature also spelled Pɛrɛ, Bere, Mbre) is a seriously endangered language of central Côte d’Ivoire. It is listed as “Mbre” in Glottolog (viewed July 2018), code mbre1244, and in ISO 639-3, code mka. Pere people have the surname Fofana. The small Pere-speaking zone is a linguistic enclave surrounded by Koro, a Mande...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 390 p. More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship,...
Paris: Karthala, 2004. — 457 p. — ISBN: 978-2845865310. Cet ouvrage offre une introduction complète aux langues africaines et à leur étude. Ses douze chapitres ont été rédigés par les meilleurs spécalistes africanistes. Ils abordent les quatre grands regroupements de langues opérés par la classification moderne (Niger-Congo, Nilo-saharien, Afroasiatique et Khoisan) ainsi que...
Helmut Buske, 1981. — 676 S. Die afrikanischen Sprachfamilien Niger-Kordofanisch Afroasiatisch Nilosaharanisch Khoisan Sprachvergleichung Genetische Gliederung und Rekonstruktion Sprachtypologie Sprachgeographie Sprache im Kontext Sprache und Geschichte Sprache und Gesellschaft Afrikanische Literatur
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1950. — 68 p. Хулстаэрт Г. Обзор языков Бельгийского Конго (на франц. яз.) Table des matieres: Considérations générales. Remarques sur les langues en particulier. Quelques mots sur les linguae francae.
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1950. — 73 p.
Хулстаэрт Г. Отрицание в языках Конго (на франц. яз.)
Tables des matieres:
Les divers morphemes négatifs.
Voyelles.
Négatif par réduplication.
Tonalité.
Encore une particularité.
Conclusions.
Tableau récapulatif.
Foris Publications, 1991. — 245 p. PHONOLOGY The role of accent in the tonal system of Odyene Dyula - Moussa Bamba Palatalization of labials in Tswana - Alicja Gorecka Geminate clusters, morphological levels, and syllable structure in Moroccan and Tunisian Arabic - John Keegan Reduplication and the tonal representation of Kinande nouns - Ngessimo Mutaka Vocalic epenthesis...
Paris: E. Leroux, 1896-1901. — 700 p.
Études sur les langues du Haut-Zambèze: textes originaux recueillis et traduits en français et précédés d'une esquisse grammaticale
Dietrich Reimer, 1982. — 280 p. — (Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A: Afrika 27). Herrmann Jungraithmayr - Chadic within Hamitosemitic or between Hamitosemitic and Nigritic? Chaim Rabin - A semitist looks at Chadic Hamitosemitisch/Hamitosemitic Otto Rossler - Semitohamitic- Language stock or language type? (Summary) Burkhardt Kienast - Zur Geschichte des...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 412 p. — ISBN10: 1137015926, ISBN13: 978-1137015921. This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 190 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 136). Displacement is a fundamental property of grammar. Typically, when an occurrence moves it is pronounced in only one environment. This was previously viewed as a primitive/irreducible property of grammar. Recent work, however, suggests that it follows from principled interactions...
Foris Publications, 1983. — 392 p. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 13th Annual Conference on African Linguistics held at the University of Quebec at Montreal (U.Q.A.M.) on April 29 - May 2, 1982, the first such conference to be held outside the United States. These proceedings document the increasing participation at this conference by Africanists...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0199232822. This book provides a typological overview of the different manifestations of grammaticalized case systems in African languages. After defining and distinguishing case systems, Christa Konig begins a thorough analysis of case in roughly 100 African languages and reveals several features, such as tone as a marker for...
Africa World Press, 1999. — 350 p. — (Trends in African linguistics 3). Presents the papers delivered during the Plenary Sessions at the 27th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contents cover issues relating to phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and language and society, as well as pedagogical issues that relate to the learning and teaching of African languages.
Le Graal Edition, 2017. — 113 p. Куаме Яо Э. Морфология языков Кот-Д'Ивуара с позиций генеративной грамматики (на франц. яз.) Les langues d'origine africaine en Côte d'Ivoire appartiennent à quatre principaux groupes linguistiques: Akan et Krou dans le sud du pays, Mandé et Voltaïque dans le nord; il y a 66 langues indigènes et un total de 112 langues. Le dioula (langue...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2011. — 301 S. Nadine Borchardt - A morphosyntactic categorization of Ikaan numerals Jade Comfort / Angelika Jakobi - The verb ‘to give’ as a verbal extension in Uncunwee (Kordofan Nubian) Norbert Cyffer - Konzepte von Richtung, Raum und Referenz – Prozesse der Grammatikalisierung im Kanuri Clarissa Eck - „Sema Boss“ oder die Organisation von Arbeitsanweisungen...
Köln, 2021. — 389 p. Digital technologies have not only transformed many aspects of private lives and the global economy, they have also made their entry into different fields of research. Within the discipline of linguistics, the fields of descriptive and comparative linguistics in particular have benefited greatly from digital data formats and software to manage vast amounts...
Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994. — ix, 241 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 119). Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference, and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon. The papers are organized into three...
Akademie-Verlag, 1955. — 437 S. — (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung: Veröffentlichung 26). Dieser Band ist eine Sammlung von Beiträgen aus einem Gebiet, dessen Bedeu tung in der wissenschaftlichen Welt in den letzten Jahrzehnten, besonders in dem Jahrzehnt nach dem Kriege, immer klarer hervorgetreten ist. Afrikanistik, als der...
Multilingual Matters, 2021. — 215 p. This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between...
Rutgers University, 2023. — 179 p. This dissertation puts forth a unified model of tone and intonation representation, called the SubTonally Reductive and Additive Model (STReAM), which uses autosegmental representations. STReAM solves several outstanding issues in the representation of tone, including but not limited to (a) the Natural Class problem, i.e. the idea that there...
London—Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1915. — 170 p. Майнхоф К. Введение в изучение африканских языков (на англ. яз.) Why do We Study Primitive Languages? A Survey of African Languages and Language-Families. The Study of Sounds in Africa and Its Relation to General Phonetics. Rhythm and Melody in African Languages. The Morphological development of African Languages. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — XVII, 485 p. — ISBN: 0-511-03146-7. This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties (leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. — 236 p. Maria Bulakh. On Static Verbs in Gǝʿǝz. Fekede Menuta. Time in the Gurage Variety of Gumer. Magdalena Krzyżanowska. Interaction of Time and Epistemic Modality in Amharic. Derib Ado. Metaphors of Time in Amharic. Shimelis Mazengia. Aspect and Tense in Oromo. Lutz Edzard. Experiencer Constructions and the Resultative Function of Impersonal...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 1415 p. — (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic...
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010. — 165 p. Мфуту Жан-Алексис. Язык любви и сексуальности в Республике Конго (на франц. яз.) Préambule. L'amour et la sexualité. À la frontière du domaine notionnel de l'amour et de la sexualité- Les mots venus d'ailleurs. Amour, sexualité, et langage, faits pour s'entendre.
Canada: Bibliotex, 2021. — 178 p. Language is the ability to produce and comprehend spoken and written words. The book offers an introduction to the Languages and Cultures of Africa. The overall aim of the book is to help students gain the linguistic skills necessary to function in all areas of practical need, and prepare them for advanced study of history, culture, and literature.
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. — 318 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 100). Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990 The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book...
Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2006. — 284 p. This volume contains 26 papers selected from the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 35), which was held at Harvard University in 2004. The theme of the conference, "African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective," was an open invitation to go beyond traditional linguistic theorizing and to discuss issues of...
Lincom Europa, 1998. — 97 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 136). Fyem is spoken by a small community in the Central Highlands of Nigeria. This is a region of extreme linguistic and historical complexity, few of whose numerous languages have been described. Like many small languages in Africa and elsewhere, Fyem is retreating before the spread of larger tongues such as...
Foris Publications, 1989. — 272 p. General Ulrike Claudi and Bernd Heine - On the Nominal Morphology of "Alienability" in Some African Languages Linda Schwartz - Asymmetrical Syntax and Symmetrical Morphology in African Languages Afroasiatic Russell G. Schuh - Long Vowels and Diphthongs in Miya and Hausa William R. Leben, Sharon Inkelas, and Mark Cobler - Phrases and Phrase...
Foris Publications, 1987. — 440 p. Rebecca N. Agheyisi - Verb Serialization and Lexical Reanalysis: The case of Compound Verbs in Edo Jean-Pierre Angoujard - Accentuation et Syncope dans le Parler du Caire: Quels Paramétrés? M. Lionel Bender - First Steps Toward Proto-Omotic Victoria L. Bergvall - The Position and Properties of In Situ and Right-Moved Questions in Kikuyu Janet...
Jully Bravo Printing and Publishing, 2018. — 236 p. Teach yourself Yoruba, Hausa and lgbo book is a product of serious research supported by a group of experienced Nigerian educators by bringing together their joint expertise. This book teaches the rudiment of our languages as well as possible scenarios It is good both at home and in school. The Author had translated English...
Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2010. — XVI, 150 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7969-2300-4. The present work advances an understanding of the current status of localization with respect to ICT, as well as the need for localization in African languages and the potential to do so. Because of the nature of the topic and the range of factors involved, the research was...
Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2010. — 327 s. Первая часть книги посвящена классификации африканских языков с данными о местах их распространения, числе носителей, статусе и т.д., вторая часть - фонологии, третья - синтаксису и семантике, а четвертая - морфологии, последняя часть рассматривает эволюцию африканских языковых систем. Języki afrykańskie to unikalna na...
Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2020. — 299 p. The monograph covers the main aspects of studies on West African languages related to the diversity of structural patterns and complexity of their linguistic assignment. It includes various topics ranging from linguistic description and conceptualization patterns to the sociolinguistics of contemporary refugee camps....
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 328 p. — (Typological Studies in Language). — ISBN10: 9027206902; ISBN13: 978-9027206909. Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a...
Peace Corps. — iii, 111 pages. Год публикации не указан. This manual is competency based and contains useful expressions related to all training components such as technique, health, safety and security. This will build up your ability to communicate in local language and will bring you closer to the community with which you will work. This capacity will also enable you to know...
São Paulo: Contexto, 2016. — 304 p. É inegável a influência de línguas africanas na constituição do português brasileiro. Mais do que isso, é inegável sua influência na constituição da nação brasileira. Por isso, impressiona o fato de a Linguística Africana nunca ter tido, até recentemente, qualquer status oficial nas nossas universidades e de, além disso, não termos uma...
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1970. — 140 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 23). The purpose of this study is (1) to discuss the application of tagmemic and matrix techniques to some problems in African descriptive linguistics, and (2) to illustrate this application (a) with data from published...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 418 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 2). — ISBN 978-3-96110-098-9. This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases used for this purpose open prospects for both...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — x, 350 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 3). — ISBN 978-3-96110-334-8; ISSN (electronic) 2627-0048. This monograph proposes a reconstruction of the lexicon, the morphophonology and the noun class system of Proto-Fula–Sereer (~3500 BP). Fula–Sereer represents one of the six branches of the North-Atlantic group. North-Atlantic, together...
Université Lumière – Lyon II, 2012. — 387 p. This dissertation deals with the phenomenon of verbal derivation and valency changing in Sereer, an Atlantic language of Senegal. Analyses are based on spontaneous data and elicitations collected during fieldwork. The study is organized in three parts. The first part focuses on some points of Sereer grammar, like the complex verbal...
University of London, SOAS. — 392 p. This thesis investigates the forms, functions and behaviour of tone in the phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax and the phonology-grammar interfaces in Ikaan (Benue-Congo, Nigeria). The analysis is based on an annotated audio corpus of recordings from 29 speakers collected during ten months of fieldwork complemented with participant observation...
Berlin: Wiegandt und Hempel, 1873. — 85 p.
Швайнфурт Г. А. Результаты лингвистических исследований в Центральной Африке (на нем. яз.)
Inhalt:
Sprache der Bongo.
Sprache der Sandeh.
Sprache der Kredy.
Sprache der Dyur (Schilluk).
Sprache der Golo.
Dinka Sprache.
Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. — 129 p. — (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 10). — ISBN: 978-0-9856211-6-2, ISBN10: 985621168. Over the past 20 years, language documentation activities have been increasing all over the world. Major funding initiatives in Germany (Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS) funded by Volkswagen...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 382 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–928674–4; ISBN 978–0–19–928675–1.
This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 262 p. — ISBN 0199768978; 0199769028. Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages. Focusing on a specific form of language change-deliberate manipulations of a language by its speakers-it provides a new approach to local language ideologies and concepts of grammar and...
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Fundación Canaria Mapere Guanarteme, 2007. — 463 p. Траперо Машимиано. Исследования по гуанче, языку первых обитателей Канарских островов (на исп. яз.) Гуанчские языки (канарские языки) — языки гуанчей, населения Канарских островов, ассимилированного испанцами не позднее XVIII века. Сохранилось несколько сот слов и предложений, записанных миссионерами,...
Oxford University Press, 1956. — 213 p.
This volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in north-eastern Africa i e. the area extending south of the Sahara, from Lake Chad (approx.) to the Indian Qcean together with those of South Africa. It thus completes the study of the non-BANTU languages of Africa begun in Volumes I and II of the Handbook of African Languages.
In...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 286 p. — ISBN 90 272 2605 9 ; 1 58811 421 X; ISBN: 90 272 2606 7 ; 1 58811 422 8. Providing an introduction to the linguistic study of African languages, the orientation adopted throughout this book is a descriptive-structural-typological one, as opposed to a formal-theoretical approach. Formalisms are not eschewed per se but rather...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. — 176 kkps. — ISBN: 90-272-2605-9 ; 1 58811 421 X; ISBN: 90-272-2606-7 ; 1 58811 422 8. Providing an introduction to the linguistic study of African languages, the orientation adopted throughout this book is a descriptive-structural-typological one, as opposed to a formal-theoretical approach. Formalisms are not eschewed per se but...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 1104 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-960989-5 — Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics Approximately 6,000 languages are said to exist on earth, nearly one-third of them are located on the African continent. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, African languages can be classified into four larger genetic units (so-called phyla); these have been labeled...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2000. — 739 S. Angelika Mietzner - Franz Rottland – eine Kurzbiographie. Torben Andersen - Number inflection in Mayak (Northern Burun). Giorgio Banti - Notes on Somali camel terminology. Herman M. Batibo - Change of feature prominence as a motivation to sound change – the case of Setswana consonant system. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst - The notion of “race” and the...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — v, 251 p. — (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies 1). — ISBN 978-3-96110-100-9. This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular...
University of California Press, 1973. — 500 p. Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic...
Routledge, 2019. — 282 p. This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the Atlantic coast at the Sengal River eastward to the Lake Chad region. The area covered by this volume is mainly a goegraphical one, so it follows that not all the languages included are related to one another, though a certain degree of...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 200 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 167). Benue–Congo (sometimes called East Benue–Congo) is a major branch of the Volta-Congo languages which covers most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 823 p. — ISBN: 1108417981. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1-108-41797-6. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this volume forms the first global history of African linguistics as an autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Defining African linguistics, the volume describes its emergence from a 'colonial science' at the turn of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 830 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) — ISBN 9781108417983. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars,...
Georgetown University Press, 2015. — 160 p. — (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics). — ISBN10: 1626161526; ISBN13: 978-1626161528. People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A...
М.: Издательский дом ЯСК, 2018. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-907117-08-2. Книга представляет собой первое в отечественной литературе сводное описание языков Африки, их генетической и ареальной классификации, типологии, важнейших особенностей звукового и грамматического строя. Цель монографии - дать читателям общее представление о языках Африки, ознакомить их с результатами новейших...
М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2013. — 609 с. — (Studia philologica). — ISBN: 978-5-9551-0642-7. Книга посвящена сравнительному анализу систем личного маркирования в языках нигеро-конголезской макросемьи – крупнейшего генетического объединения языков мира. В состав макросемьи входят более 1500 языков Африки южнее Сахары. Целью работы является проведение ступенчатой...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 348 c.
В книгу включены лингвистически обработанные тексты сказок народов Африки с пословными и литературными переводами. Материал охватывает сказки на языках фула, лингала, гусии, ньямвези и дабида. Тексты на неизученных и малоизученных языках снабжены словарями и краткими сведениями по грамматике.
М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2014. — 456 с. — (Studia philologica). — ISBN: 978-5-9905762-4-7. Очередной (шестой) том коллективной монографии "Основы африканского языкознания" продолжает серию, в которой были ранее опубликованы пять томов: "Именные категории" (1997), "Морфемика и морфонология" (2000), "Глагол" (2003), "Лексические подсистемы. Словообразование" (2008),...
М.: Аспект-пресс, 1996. — 279 с. — ISBN: 5-7567-0192-3. В коллективной монографии на материале различных языков Африки рассматриваются проблемы именной грамматики под типологическим углом зрения. В центре внимания находятся категории класса, числа, определенности. Именно наличие в большинстве языков Тропической Африки именных классов придает своеобразие их грамматическому...
М.: Восточная литература, 2000. — 414 с. — ISBN 5-02-018139-0. В коллективной монографии на материале различных языков Африки рассматриваются проблемы морфемного строения слов разных частей речи и многообразные морфонологические явления, представляющие интерес в плане общей типологии. Основное внимание уделяется чередованиям и их соотнесенности с грамматическим формообразованием,...
Научное издание. — СПб.: МАЭ РАН, 2014. — 236 с. В сборнике представлены самые последние материалы полевой работы петербургских африканистов. В последние годы наблюдается позитивный процесс интенсификации полевых поездок петербургских африканистов в Африку. Причем экспедиции охватывают очень широкую географию: Кения, Танзания, Нигерия, Кот-д’Ивуар, Гвинея, Эфиопия, Камерун,...
М.: Наука, 1990. — 161 с. — ISBN 5-02-016419-4.
Книга выдающегося советского востоковеда, африканиста, члена-корреспондента АНСССР Д.А.Ольдерогге содержит очерки по истории изучения африканских языков в странах Европы, в том числе в России, от зарождения африканистики по настоящее время. В книгу включена также статья И.А.Осницкой об изучении африканских языков в СССР, у истоков...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 241 с. Коллективная монография посвящена исследованию различных аспектов проблемы именных классов в языках Африки (банту и западноатлантические): семантической корреляции между различными классами, их морфологической структуры и др. Рассматриваются также ассимиляционные приемы заимствований в языках банту, а также закономерности переструктурализации...
М.: Наука; Издательская фирма Восточная литература, 1993. — 375 с. — ISBN: 5-02-016809-2 Первое комплексное исследование по морфологии африканских языков атлантической группы в сравнительно-историческом и культурно-типологическом аспектах. Широко привлекаются также материалы по нигеро-конголезским и индоевропейским языкам. Наличие в атлантических языках систем именных классов...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 569 с. Книга включает работы, в которых на базе сравнительно-исторического исследования осуществляется реконструкция праязыковых систем разных уровней следующих языковых семей и групп — афразийской, чадской, кушитской, манде, атлантической, сахарской. Книга предназначена для востоковедов и африканистов, а также для всех, интересующихся общей теорией...
СПб.: Издательство Политехнического университета, 2008. — 397 с. — ISBN: 5-7422-1739-0. В книге собраны опубликованные в разные годы статьи автора по африканскому языкознанию, которые являются уточнением и развитием идей, изложенных в монографиях «Эволюция грамматического строя в языках банту. Ленинград, 1987» и «У истоков языка и мышления. Генезис африканских языков....
Санкт-Петербург: Российская Академия наук Институт лингвистических исследований, 1996. — 383 с. — ISBN: 5-900772-02-0 Впервые в языкознании на конкретном языковом материале воссоздается картина возникновения языка и мышления. Показывается, что библейская легенда о мироздании, демиургом которого было Слово, является отражением процессов словотворчества, реально происходивших в...
Коллектив авторов. — М.: Ключ-С, 2017. — 232 с. — ISBN: 978-5-906751-92-8. Коллективная монография «Культурно-языковые процессы в Африке» посвящена актуальным проблемам современной африканистики в области изучения и преподавания африканских языков, а также вопросам грамматики, лексикологии, социолингвистики и литературоведения. В первом разделе монографии «История изучения и...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 300 с. Иллич-Свитыч В.М. Из истории чадского консонантизма. Долгопольский А.Б. Материалы по сравнительно-исторической фонетике кушитских языков. Завадовский Ю.И. Лексический субстрат в арабских диалектах. Иванов Вяч. Вс. О возможном отражении одного миграционного термина в хауса. Кобищанов Ю.М. Древние известия о языках Тропической Африки. Охотина Н.В....
2-е изд. — Виноградов В.А., Порхомовский В.Я., Топорова И.Н., Рябова И.С., Косогорова М.А., Макеева Н.В., Шлуинский А.Б., Дьячков М.В. — М.: Издательский Дом Языки славянской культуры (ЯСК), 2019. — 384 с. — (Studia philologica). — ISBN 978-5-907117-44-0. Очередной (седьмой) том коллективной монографии «Основы африканского языкознания» завершает серию, в которой были ранее...
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