2008
226 pp.
10 maps, 14 graphs, 15 tables and numerous charts
Text languages: English, French
Though geographically bound by their respective languages under discussion, the contributions to this publication still bear high relevance to African historical linguistics in general. Language reconstruction and comparative studies benefit from phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactical and semantical case studies. Further topics of the text include discussions on methods and theories of African historical-comparative linguistics.
CONTENTS
Preface
Pascal Boyeldieu / Pierre Nougayrol:
Les langues soudaniques centrales – essai d’évaluation
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal:
Reconstructing the Historical Development of Nilotic – A Testcase for Cladistic and Rhizotic Models of Genetic Affinity
Axel Fleisch:
The Reconstruction of Lexical Semantics in Bantu
Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
The Historical Connection between the Movement away Marker and the Associative Preposition
Tom Güldemann:
Greenberg’s “Case” for Khoisan – The Morphological Evidence
Victor Porkhomovsky:
Hamito-Semitic Aspect System – The Case of Semitic and Berber
Konstantin Pozdniakov:
Niveaux linguistiques et problèmes de reconstruction dans les langues atlantiques
Rainer Vossen:
How to Comprehend the Obvious? Linguistic Variation and Dialect Geography – The African Experience
Addresses of contributors