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
