2018
XIV, 489 pp.
9 colour maps, 1 b/w map, 15 colour photos, 1 colour drawing, 18 colour illustrations, numerous tables, overviews and graphics
Text language: English
The first Nuba Mountain Languages Conference took place at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2012; the proceedings of this meeting were published as Schadeberg & Blench (2013). The second conference took place at INALCO, Paris, August 27-30, 2014. The current volume constitutes a selection of presentations from the Third Nuba Mountain Languages Conference at the University of Cologne, September 27-29, 2017. In addition, a number of contributions on languages in this area are included which could not be presented at this conference for various reasons.
CONTENTS
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Introduction
Part One: DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES
Kadu
Darryl Turner: Prepositions and pronominal case in Katcha
Nilo-Saharan: Nubian
Waleed Alshareef: Genitive constructions in Abu Jinuk
Katherine Walker: Nominal number in Tabaq
Lena Pointner: Verbal number in Tabaq
Angelika Jakobi / Ali Ibrahim: Labile verbs in Tagle (Kordofan Nubian)
Niger-Congo: Rashad
Abeer Bashir: Noun class genders in Tagoi
Maha Abdu Aldawi Abdalla / Sawsan Abdel Aziz Mohammed Nashid: An initial sketch of the Tagom noun phrase
Niger-Congo: Heiban
Nicolas Quint / Siddig Ali Karmal Koko: Koalib ideophones – A first overview of their main characteristics
Niger-Congo: Katloid
Birgit Hellwig: Verbal derivation in Katla – The comitative
Nataliya Veit: The verbal derivational morpheme -aa in Tima
Ulrike Nüsslein: Number marking in Julut
Gertrud Schneider-Blum: Constituent focus and selective marking in Tima
Niger-Congo: Talodi
Heleen Smits: Negation in Lumun
John Vanderelst / Ibrahim Kannu: Phonological rules and orthography development – A case study
Part Two: COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Russell Norton: Classifying the non-Eastern-Sudanic Nuba Mountain languages – Evidence from pronoun categories and lexicostatistics
Roger Blench: Do Heiban and Talodi form a genetic group and how are they related to Niger-Congo?
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Reconstructing Katloid and deconstructing Kordofanian
Sharon Rose: The typology of vowel harmony in Nuba Mountain Languages
Thilo C. Schadeberg: Core Kordofanian