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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Oxford handbook of African languages
  name:
    name part: Vossen, Rainer.
  name:
    name part: Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxiv, 1066 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla, Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Khoisan, which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological and comparative linguistics.
  note: edited by Rainer Vossen and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: African languages
  classification: 410
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford handbooks in linguistics
  identifier: 0199609896
  identifier: 9780199609895
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    record creation date: 190810
    record change date: 20200805155443.0
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