The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 March 2020
- ISBN 9780199609895
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1104 pages
- Size 178x253x58 mm
- Weight 1866 g
- Language English 40
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Short description:
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.
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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: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. 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.
...is a state-of-the-art luxury liner of a reference work on all aspects of African linguistics. Many scholars of African languages will consult it frequently and repeatedly for the foreseeable future as one of the major monuments of scholarship in this multidisciplinary field.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of maps, figures, and tables
The contributors
Introduction
Part I: Domains of Grammar
Phonology and phonetics
Tone
Morphology
Syntax
Part II: Language Comparison
African language types
Dialectology and linguistic geography
Reflections on the history of African language classification
Part III: Language Phyla and Families
Niger-Congo, with a special focus on Benue-Congo
Atlantic
Mande
Kwa
Gur
Bantu and Bantoid
Adamawa
Ubangi
Kordofanian
Afro-Asiatic overview
Egyptian
Berber
East Cushitic
North Cushitic
Central Cushitic
South Cushitic
Omotic
Chadic
Ethio-Semitic
Nilo-Saharan and its limits
Saharan
Eastern Sudanic
Central Sudanic
Khoisan
Linguistic isolates
Part IV: Languages Structures: Case Studies
Bom-Kim
Dan
Biali
Yukuben
Bende
Waja
Zande
Zenaga
Sidaama
Kolisi
Iraqw
Wandala
Kumam
Baale
Songhay languages
Cara
??X'egwi
Sandawe
Part V: Language, Cognition, and Culture
Ideophones
Colour term systems: Genetic vs areal distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Experiencer constructions
Language and ethnobotany
Distinctive languages
Conversation analysis
Cognition and language
Part VI: Language and Society
Indigenous African scripts
Language policy and politics
Language and education
Language endangerment, documentation, and revitalization
Language birth: youth/town language
Language contact
Mixed languages: The case of Ma'á/Mbugu
African languages in the Diaspora
Pidgin and creole languages
Sign languages
Arabic in Africa
Orthography standardization
Pragmatics and communication
African languages in information and communication technology
Part VII: Language and History
Words, things, and meaning: Linguistics as a tool for historical reconstruction
Language and archaeology
Part VIII: Language and Orature
Narratives
Proverbs
Poetry
Language index
Author index
Subject index
