An Introduction to African Languages
G. Tucker Childs
[Not in series, 121] 2003. xx, 265 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
G. Tucker Childs
List of John Benjamins publications for which G. Tucker Childs plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Other African languages | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
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2019. Chapter 12. Ideophones as a measure of multilingualism*. Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 303–322
The purpose of the pilot research described here was twofold. The first was to develop a measure for multilingualism, how to characterize what has come to be known in the literature as a linguistic repertoire in a rapid and economical manner. A linguistic repertoire is not a language but the… read more | Chapter
2018. Chapter 5. Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist. Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork, Sarvasy, Hannah and Diana Forker (eds.), pp. 61–78
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2014. Constraints on violating constraints: How languages reconcile the twin dicta of “Be different” and “Be recognizably language”. Ideophones: Between Grammar and Poetry, Lahti, Katherine, Rusty Barrett and Anthony K. Webster (eds.), pp. 341–354
This paper examines the contradictory demands of using language expressively and still qualifying as language, proposing a functional explanation for the form of words in a linguistic word category. Being expressive requires expending more energy, emitting a more robust signal to convey additional… read more | Article
2008. Review of Voeltz (2005): Studies in African Linguistic Typology. Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 917–926
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2002. Review of Bartens (2000): Ideophones and Sound Symbolism in Atlantic Creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2, pp. 284–289
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2001. Research on ideophones, whither hence? The need for a social theory of ideophones. Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 63–73
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1997. The status of Isicamtho, an Nguni-based urban variety of Soweto. The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 341 ff.
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1994. Expressiveness in Contact Situations: The Fate of African Ideophones. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 257–282
Typically not the focus of linguistic analysis, the expressive function nonetheless represents a core linguistic behavior. Throughout Africa, ideo-phones robustly manifest that function. When adult speakers learn and begin to use a second language, particularly in contact situations with limited L2… read more | Article