nam a22 c 4500 tufs.2/486010587 nljbp 241011035834.3 cr ||||||||||| 131217s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2010049191 9789027273956 (e-Book) (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P381.A3 409.6 22 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas With special reference to Africa Edited by Osamu Hieda, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (vi, 321 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 1877-6248 2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Message from the President / Ikuo Kameyama -- Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education / Makoto Minegishi -- Introduction / Christa König -- Areal Features and Linguistic Areas: Contact-induced Change and Geographical Typology / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Areas of Grammaticalization and Geographical Typology / Bernd Heine -- Case Marking and Linguistic Geography / Christa König -- Can Ethiopian Languages be Considered Languages in the African Linguistic Area? The Case of Highland East Cushitic, particularly Sidaama and Kambaata / Kazuhiro Kawachi -- Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction / Tom Güldemann -- Explaining Convergence and the Formation of Linguistic Areas / Yaron Matras -- Is Kumam a Creole Language? A Mechanism of Linguistic Convergence in the Southern Lwo Area / Osamu Hieda -- The Continuum of Languages in West Tanzania Bantu: A Case Study of Gongwe, Bende, and Pimbwe / Yuko Abe -- Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in the Khoe-speaking Area of Southern Africa / Rainer Vossen -- Tense and Aspect in Khoesan: The case of Ju/'hoansi / Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara -- Ritual Pathways: Contact in a Framework of Difference, Imitation and Alterity / Anne Storch -- The Eastern Kalahari Khoe: A Focus on Inter-Khoisan Ethno-language Dynamics around the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana / Andy Chebanne -- Language Contact and Social Change in North-central Namibia: Socialization via Singing and Dancing Activities among the !Xun San / Akira Takada -- Two Types of Kinship Classifi cation Found among the Khoe Languages — Relative and Absolute Calculations in Determining the Seniority among Classifi catory Siblings / Hitomi Ono -- A First Report on G|ui Ideophones / Hiroshi Nakagawa -- Noun-Modifi er Order in Africa / Matthew S. Dryer 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, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa, although some demonstrate, with examples from non-African linguistic data, including Amazonian and European languages, how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa. For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. Provided by publisher. Afro-Asiatic languages Other African languages Typology Hieda, Osamu editor König, Christa editor Nakagawa, Hiroshi editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027207692 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/tufs.2 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027273956