Karsten Legere
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karsten Legere plays a role.
Articles
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 | Article
2016 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
Missionary Contributions to Bantu Languages in Tanzania: James Thomas Last (1850–1933) and the Vidunda language Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 393–406 | Article
2009 This paper deals with linguistic work by the lay missionary James Thomas Last (1850–1933), who was among the first Europeans to live up-country in what is now Tanzania. In the course of a seven-year stay he was exposed to African languages which have only partly been known outside Africa. Last… read more
Preprefix or not — that is the question: The case of Kwangali, Kwanyama and Ndonga Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.), pp. 251–262 | Article
2006