Author: William Everett WelmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
William E. Welmers Gives an Introduction to the Classification of African Languages
Author: William Everett WelmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Introduction to the Classification of African Languages
Author: William Everett WelmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Introduction to the Classification of African Languages. Revised Impression. Ed. H. M. J. Trutenau
Author: William Everett WELMERSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Note on the Classification of African Languages
Author: An Introduction to African Languages
Author: George Tucker ChildsPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027226068
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
African Language Structures
Author: William E. WelmersPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022102
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.
African Languages
Author: Bernd HeinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521666299
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.
African Language Structures
Author: Wm. E. WelmersPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520413857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has organized the volume by linguistic topic. Thus there are extensive discussions of tonal systems in languages from all over sub-Saharan Africa, of noun classes and concord in the Bantu and other Niger-Kordofanian languages, and of the varieties of verbal constructions found in representative languages. African Language Structures emphasizes the organization of language data rather than the technicalities of theoretical linguistics. The material is presented in such a way that students working on the analysis of other languages can be guided in their procedures; Welmers suggests not only what types of structures may be expected, but also how they may be discovered and described. This work is unique in the depth of its linguistic insight over the entire spectrum of language structure and in the breadth of its language coverage. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
An Introduction to African Linguistics
Author: Ngessimo M. MutakaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An Introduction to the Study of African Languages
Author: Carl MeinhofPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description