The Routledge handbook of African linguistics / edited by Augustine Agwuele and Adams Bodomo.

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The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of...

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Other Authors: Agwuele, Augustine (Editor)
Bodomo, Adams (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge language handbooks
Subjects:
African languages > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
African languages > Grammar.
African languages > Phonology.
African languages > Social aspects.
Linguistics > Africa.
African languages.
Linguistics.
Africa.
Handbooks and manuals.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Physical Description:xvii, 464 pages ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • History, method, and typology
  • A short history of African language studies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on German contributions / Sara Pugach
  • Historical linguistics in an African context: a brief state of the art / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
  • Linguistic research in African field / Bruce Connell
  • Tone and tonology in African languages / Constance Kutsch Lojenga
  • A system-based typology of mood in Niger-Congo languages / Isaac N. Mwinlaaru, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, & Ernest S. Akerejola
  • Sound and syllable system
  • Coarticulation: segmental and suprasegmental interaction in Yoruba / Augustine Agwuele
  • Labial-velars of Africa: phonetics, phonology, and historical development / Michael Cahill
  • Syllable structure and vowel/zero alternations in Moroccan Arabic and Berber / Mohamed Lahrouchi
  • Vowel harmony (beyond ATR) and its impact on morphological parsing / John Rennison
  • Phrase and sentence system
  • West African serial verb construction / Dorothee Beerman & Lars Hellan
  • Long distance anaphors in Yoruba and the binding theory / Nike Lawal
  • The encoding of information structure in African languages / Nana Aba Appiah Amfo
  • Bantu applicatives and Chimiini instrumentals / Brent Henderson
  • The form and function of Dagbani demonstratives / Isaah Alhassan Samuel
  • The syntax and its implications of experiencer predications in Africa / Zygmunt Frajzyngier
  • Language and society: theory and practice
  • Who are you translating for? Translation theory and some West African languages / Keir Hansford
  • The representative of African languages and cultures on social media: a case of Ewe in Ghana / Elvis Yevudey
  • Sustainable language technology of African languages / Arvi Hurskainen
  • Language planning for development in Ghana: problems and prospects / Paul Agbedor
  • Creative expressions and cultural life
  • The language of youth in Africa: a sociocultural linguistic analysis / Heather Brooks & Roland Kouassi
  • Clash or click? An analysis of theoretical assumptions and their application to youth languages in Africa / Sandra Barasa
  • Gestures and gesturing on the African continent / Heather Brookes
  • Tense and time-depth in the Mabia languages of West Africa: testing the philosophy of linguistic relativity / Adams Bodomo.