Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa
Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa
[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
Christa König
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christa König plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Other African languages | Typology
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2016. Reacting to language endangerment: The Akie of north-central Tanzania. Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights, Filipović, Luna and Martin Pütz (eds.), pp. 313–333
Language endangerment in Africa is of a different kind than it is in many other parts of the world. Globalization and the impact of languages such as English, French, or Portuguese are not a major problem for the maintenance of African languages. Language loss is no less a factor in Africa than it… read more | Article
2011. Introduction. Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa, Hieda, Osamu, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa (eds.), pp. 7–11
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2011. Case Marking and Linguistic Geography. Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa, Hieda, Osamu, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa (eds.), pp. 67–90
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2009. Ik. Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages, Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (ed.), pp. 141–172
On African standards, the Kuliak language Ik is one of the few languages with an elaborated case system: Seven cases are distinguished by nominal suffixes. Case is highly productive. Nearly all elements of the language are at least to some extent case inflected: Nouns, adverbs, adpositions, verbs,… read more | Article
2009. !Xun. Coding Participant Marking: Construction types in twelve African languages, Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (ed.), pp. 23–53
!Xun (also known as Jul'hoan) is essentially an isolating language. Phonetically it represents one of the most complex languages of the world (see Heikkinen 1986). It shows a productive serial verb construction (Svc) which has properties of compounding. Although nearly all verbs of the language can… read more | Article
2006. Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior. Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.), pp. 195–207
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2006. Marked nominative in Africa. Studies in Language 30:4, pp. 655–732
Africa is a continent where grammaticalized case systems are a rare phenomenon. But there is one exception: East Africa is a region where there is a relatively high occurrence of case languages (that is, languages with a grammaticalized case system). With regard to the type of case systems which… read more | Article
2005. Grammatical Hybrids: Between Serialization, Compounding and Derivation in !Xun (North Khoisan). Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004, Dressler, Wolfgang U., Dieter Kastovsky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and Franz Rainer (eds.), pp. 81–96
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2003. Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia). Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Shay, Erin and Uwe Seibert (eds.), pp. 129–150
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