Robert K. Herbert [ed.]: African Linguistics at the Crossroads [PDF]

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Papers from Kwaluseni, 1st WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Swaziland 18–22. VII. 1994

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Description

1997
XIV, 645 pp.
numerous tables and graphs

Text languages: English, French

CONTENTS

I. HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE & TYPOLOGICAL

Bernd Heine:
Grammaticalization Theory and Its Relevance for African Linguistics

Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
Bidirectionality of Grammaticalization

Antoine Lipou:
Mixed Languages and Bantu Historical Linguistics

Irina N. Toporova:
Typology and the Bantu Noun Classes

Ulrike Claudi:
Some Thoughts on the Origin of Gender Marking

Tom Güldemann:
Prosodic Subordination as a Strategy for Complex Sentence Construction

II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Anthony Traill:
Linguistic Phonetic Features for Clicks

David Odden:
Domains and Levels of Representation in Tone

Georges Hérault:
Syllabic Genesis and Luganda Phonology

III. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

Sam A. Mchombo:
Contributions of African Languages to Generative Grammar

Josephat M. Rugemalira:
The Upper Limit Constraint on Argument Structures

M. Lynne Murphy:
Agreement as Non-Directional – An Approach to Bantu Concord

Mayrene Bentley:
Variation in Bantu Verbal Agreement

Henny Broekman:
African Languages and Syntactic Generation

Marianna Visser:
The Thematic Structure of Event Nominals in Xhosa

Andrew van der Spuy:
Syntactic Traces in Zulu

Ronald P. Schaefer:
Talmy’s Schematic Core and Verb Serialization in Emai – An Initial Sketch

J.A. du Plessis:
The Semantics of Ergative Constructions in Zulu and Xhosa

Andrew Tilimbe Kulemeka:
The Grammatical Category of Chichewa Ideophones

IV. INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Margaret Akinyi Obondo:
On Ways of Retelling – The Narrative Syntax of Urban Luo Children

Robert K. Herbert:
The Meaning of Language Choices in South Africa

J. Keith Chick:
‘One Settler, One Bullet’ and other Provocations

Zofia Podobínska:
La politesse – les comportements linguistiques adoptés par des locuteurs de swahili au cours des actes de « Mande »

V. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING

Ben Ohi Elugbe:
Literacy and Language Development in Nigeria

Adams B. Bodomo:
Linguistics, Education and Politics – An Interplay on Ghanaian Languages

Armando Jorge Lopes:
Language Policy in Mozambique – A Taboo?

Jan Blommaert:
Ideology and Language in Tanzania – A Brief Survey

Kahombo Mateene:
Le « Plan d’Action Linguistique pour l’Afrique »

Alfred J.I. Matiki:
The Politics of Language in Malawi

Renato Matusse:
The Future of Portuguese in Mozambique

Livingstone Walusimbi:
The Future of Minority Languages in Uganda

VI. LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková:
Swahili Verbs in Modern Fiction

Edgar A. Gregersen:
The Pragmatics of Verbal Abuse in African Languages

Ian Davies / Greville Corbett:
Colour Categories in African Languages

Ellen Contini-Morava:
Noun Classification in Swahili

Arvi Hurskainen:
A Language Sensitive Approach to Information Management and Retrieval

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