The Routledge handbook of African linguistics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Agwuele, Augustine (Editor), Bodomo, Adams (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge language handbooks
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: African linguistics
  • Part I: History, method, and typology. A short history of African language studies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on German contributions
  • Historical linguistics in an African context: a brief state of the art
  • Linguistic research in the African field
  • Tone and tonology in African languages
  • A system-based typology of mood in Niger-Congo languages
  • Part II: Sound and syllable system. Coarticulation: segmental and suprasegmental interactions in Yoruba
  • Labial-velars of Africa: phonetics, phonology, and historical development
  • Syllable structure and vowel/zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and Berber
  • Vowel harmony (beyond ATR) and its impact on morphological parsing
  • Part III: Phrase and sentence system. West African serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga
  • Logophoricity, long distance reflexives, and the Yoruba anaphor òun
  • The encoding of information structure in African languages
  • Bantu applicatives and Chimiini instrumentals
  • The form and function of Dagbani demonstratives
  • Experiencer predications in Chadic: a study of the semantics-syntax interface
  • Part IV: Language and society: theory and practice. Translation theory and practice past and present: applying the Target Audience Criterion to some West African languages
  • The representation of African languages and cultures on social media: a case of Ewe in Ghana
  • Sustainable language technology for African languages
  • Language planning for sustainable development: problems and prospects in Ghana
  • Part V: Creative expressions and cultural life. The language of youth in Africa: A sociocultural linguistic analysis
  • Introduction
  • African youth languages: the past, present and future attention
  • Gestures and gesturing on the African continent
  • Tense and time-depth in the Mabia languages of West Africa: testing the philosophy of linguistic relativity