Linguistic Geography of Africa

Name: Linguistic Geography of Africa
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ISBN: 9780521876117

ISBN-10: 0521876117

ISBN-13: 9780521876117

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bernd Heine, Derek Nurse

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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, has never been the subject of major research. This book shows that such similarities across African languages are more common than is widely believed. It provides a broad perspective on Africa as a linguistic area, as well as…

Book details

List price: $126.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/13/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.06" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of maps


List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Series editor's foreword


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Introduction




Is Africa a linguistic area?




Africa as a phonological area




Africa as a morphosyntactic area




The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa




The Tanzanian Rift Valley area




Ethiopia




The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa




Africa's verb-final languages



Notes


References


Index