Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin
[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.
Fiona Mc Laughlin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fiona Mc Laughlin plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Other African languages
2024 Foreword: Felix Ameka: “Pathbreaker“ Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. ix–xii | Foreword
2017 Chapter 10. Syllable weight in the phonology of Pulaar Syllable Weight in African Languages, Newman, Paul (ed.), pp. 161–176 | Chapter
2015 Introduction Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2015 Linguistic warscapes of northern Mali Linguistic Landscape 1:3, pp. 213–242 | Article
In this paper I show that public writing (and its effacement) during a recent period of crisis in northern Mali constituted a powerful tool by which various factions attempted to inscribe political hegemony on the linguistic warscapes of three cities: Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu. The warscapes of… read more
2015 Can a language endanger itself? Reshaping repertoires in urban Senegal Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa, Essegbey, James, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
This chapter presents a case study of how Wolof has cohabited the linguistic
ecology of urban Senegal with a colonial language, French, over the past three
hundred years. Specifically, it explores how this contact has reshaped the repertoire,
giving rise to a way of speaking that scholars have… read more