A. Traill / R. Vossen / M. Biesele (eds.): The Complete Linguist – Papers in Memory of Patrick J. Dickens [PDF]

1995
536 pp.
1 map, 2 b/w photos, numerous tables and diagrams, index

Text language: English

CONTENTS

Megan Biesele: Patrick John Dickens — 1953–1992

APPLIED
H. Russell Bernard / George Ngong Mbeh / W. Penn Handwerker: The Tone Problem
Megan Biesele: Patrick Dickens’s Ju/’hoan [Ju|’hoan] Linguistics Work – Educational and Political Implications
Melissa Heckler: The Whole Village Classroom – a Portrait of a Linguist and a People

ORAL LITERATURE
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: The Architecture of Bantu Narratives – an Interdisciplinary Matter Analysis of a Dciriku Text
Sigrid Schmidt: Representatives of Evil in Khoisan Folktales

PHONOLOGY
Richard Bailey: Issues in the Phonology and Orthography of Chopi (ciCopi S 61)
Toni Borowsky: Hausa Plurals and Optimality
G. Tucker Childs: Tone and Accent in Atlantic
Robert K. Herbert: Prenasalized Consonants and Dahl’s Law – Questions of Representation and Subclass
J.A. Louw: Xhosa Tone

MORPHOLOGY
J.S.M. Khumalo: CV Templates in Zulu Morphology – a Multilinear Approach
Andrew van der Spuy: Morphological Case-Marking in Zulu
Susan M. Suzman: The Discourse Origin of Agreement in Zulu

SYNTAX
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke: Instances of Incorporation and Compounding in Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara)
Mark Sebba: Some Remarks on Ju/’hoan [Ju|’hoan] Serial Verbs
Thomas Widlok: The “Irrealis” at Work in Hai//om [Hai||om]

SEMANTICS
Sabine Neumann: Static Spatial Relations in SheNgologa (SheKgalagadi)

SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Tore Janson: The Status, History and Future of Sekgalagadi
Gabriele Sommer / Rainer Vossen: Linguistic Variation in Siyeyi

PHILOLOGY
Mary C. Bill: Berthoud’s Leçons de Sigwamba (1883) – the First Tsonga Grammar
Anthony Traill: Interpreting /Xam [|Xam] Phonology – the Need for Typological Cleansing

The following monographs and contributions to paper collections by Patrick Dickens have been published in our programme:

Patrick J. Dickens: A Concise Grammar of Ju|’hoan [PDF]
Patrick J. Dickens: English-Ju|’hoan – Ju|’hoan-English Dictionary [PDF]
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke / Edward D. Elderkin (eds.): Namibian Languages – Reports and Papers [PDF]

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors, some more Africanist’s festschrifts and descriptions of further Khoisan and Bantu languages of southern Africa: