Author: Adams BodomoPublisher:
ISBN: 9783962031183
Category : Gur languages
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Handbook of the Mabia Languages of West Africa
Author: Adams BodomoPublisher:
ISBN: 9783962031183
Category : Gur languages
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics
Author: Augustine AgwuelePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315392968
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.
The Languages of West Africa
Author: Diedrich WestermannPublisher:
ISBN: 9781315105239
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Languages of West Africa
Author: Diedrich WestermanHandbook of African Languages
Author: Diedrich WestermannPredication in African Languages
Author: James EssegbeyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027247013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several prominent topics about predication in the languages, including locative predication, expressions of tense, aspect, and mood in relation to verbal complexes and verb serialisation, verb semantics, and nominalization of predicates. The chapters take inspiration from Felix Ameka’s approach to the study of language according to which the main task of a linguist is to collaborate with language users to understand communicative practices in different contexts and to uncover how these practices impact grammatical and semantic aspects of the language. Accordingly, the descriptions and analyses in this book serve to understand language variation in different ecologies, rather than to impose pre-established descriptive frames on less described languages. Together, the chapters in the book represent a bird’s eye view of predication strategies in various African languages and can therefore serve as readings for both introductory and advanced level courses on predication from a typological or comparative perspective.
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Author: Rainer VossenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199609896
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Une source inconnue indique : "This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. It covers a wide range of topics, from grammatical sketches of individual languages to sociocultural and extralinguistic issues."
Handbook of African Languages
Author: International African InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Handbook of African Languages
Author: Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics
Author: Galen SibandaPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3985540365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Michigan State University in 2018. The contributions from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America, Africa and other parts of the world, provide a glimpse of the breadth and quality of current research in African linguistics from both descriptive and theoretical perspectives. Fields of interest range from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics to sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, language documentation, computational linguistics and beyond. The articles reflect both the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and the wide range of research areas covered by presenters at ACAL conferences.