SubjectsLinguistics / Other African languages
Book series
ISSN 1382-3485
Journal
ISSN 0044-8699
Predication in African Languages
Edited by James Essegbey and Enoch O. Aboh
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 235] 2024. xi, 344 pp.
Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages
Edited by David Roberts and Stephen L. Walter
This book presents the results of a series of literacy experiments in ten Niger-Congo languages, representing four language families and spanning five countries. It asks the research question, "To what extent does full tone marking contribute to oral reading fluency, comprehension and writing… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] 2021. xxii, 375 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes
Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.
Czech and Slovak Contributions to African Studies
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:3 (2018) 234 pp.
Expressions de la bhakti dans les littératures indiennes
Special issue of Archív Orientální 86:2 (2018) 142 pp.
Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 338] 2017. x, 219 pp.
Tibetan Margins
Guest-edited by Daniel Berounský and Jarmila Ptáčková
Special issue of Archív Orientální 84:3 (2016) iv, 195 pp.
Death, Graves and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perceptions of the Last Things During the Middle Ages and Today
Guest-edited by Bronislav Ostřanský and Miroslav Melčák
Special issue of Archív Orientální 83:3 (2015) iv, 228 pp.
Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin
This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.
Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin
Edited by Tom Güldemann and Anne-Maria Fehn
Greenberg’s (1954) concept of a ‘Khoisan’ language family, while heartily embraced by non-specialists, has been harshly criticized by linguists working on these languages. Evidence for Greenberg's hypothesis has proved to be seriously insufficient and little progress has been made in the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 330] 2014. xii, 331 pp.
A Grammar of Luwo: An anthropological approach
Anne Storch
This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art… read more[Culture and Language Use, 12] 2014. xvii, 291 pp.
The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery
Harold Torrence
This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.
Popular Culture and Literature in Taiwan
Special issue of Archív Orientální 81:3 (2013) vi, 250 pp.
Social Tension in Modern Indian Literature and FIlm
Special issue of Archív Orientální 81:1 (2013) iv, 126 pp.
The Syntax of Tuki: A cartographic approach
Edmond Biloa
This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 203] 2013. xxv, 611 pp.
Shaping Public Opinion from the Sahara to the Caucasus (16th to 21st Centuries)
Special issue of Archív Orientální 80:2 (2012) xvi, 213 pp.
Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa
Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa
Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social,… read more[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
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 of their… read more[Not in series, 161] 2011. xviii, 421 pp.
Trust and Risk in East Asia
Special issue of Archív Orientální 79:2 (2011) 93 pp.
Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages
Edited by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 110] 2009. xvi, 389 pp.
The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe grammar at the syntax–phonology interface
Jason Kandybowicz
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 between the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 136] 2008. xiii, 168 pp.
The Bantu–Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure
Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth
This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 131] 2008. xix, 355 pp.
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Edited by F.K. Erhard Voeltz
The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 64] 2006. xiv, 426 pp.
The Acquisition of Swahili
Kamil Deen
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
Africa and Applied Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 16
Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Ulrike H. Meinhof
AILA Review is a publication of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée, an international federation of national associations for applied linguistics. Volume 16 of AILA Review is the first to appear with John Benjamins and contains a unique collection of articles, guest-edited by… read more[AILA Review, 16] 2003. ii, 173 pp.
An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate… read more[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi
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 is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 100] 1993. x, 307 pp.
History from Below: The “Vocabulary of Elisabethville” by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay
Edited by Johannes Fabian
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized,… read more[Creole Language Library, 7] 1990. vii, 236 pp.
African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke
Edited by Didier L. Goyvaerts
This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology. read more[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 6] 1985. v, 508 pp.