The Routledge handbook of African linguistics /
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New York, NY :
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2018.
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| Series: | Routledge language handbooks
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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