2009
385 pp.
1 colour photo, 2 b/w photos, 9 colour maps, 8 b/w maps, 10 colour figures, 22 b/w figures, 37 tables, index
Text language: English
CONTENTS
Preface
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig / Frank Seidel / Marc Seifert:
Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa
Roger Blench:
Was there an Interchange between Cushitic Pastoralists and Khoesan Speakers in the Prehistory of Southern Africa and how Can this be Detected?
Koen Bostoen:
Semantic Vagueness and Cross-linguistic Lexical Fragmentation in Bantu – Impeding Factors for Linguistic Palaeontology
Inge Brinkman:
Writing, Oral Traditions and the Construction of Ethnic Identities
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal:
Esoterogeny and Localist Strategies in a Nuba Mountain Community
Axel Fleisch:
Language History in SE Angola – The Ngangela-Nyemba Dialect Cluster
Wilfrid H.G. Haacke:
Crossing the Linguistic Divide between Namibian Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe – Possible Directions for Future Research
Eileen Kose:
A Sketch of Pre-Colonial Metalworking in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig:
Historiography on the Basis of Contemporary Linguistic Data – The Herero Case
Robert Nicolaï:
Language Contact, Areality, and History – The Songhay Question Revisited
Henning Schreiber:
Social Networks, Linguistic Variation and Micro Change in an African Context – A Case Study in the Borderland of Mali and Burkina Faso
Frank Seidel:
Layered Language Genesis in the ‘Catch Basin’ of the Linyanti and Okavango Swamps – The Case of Yeyi
Marc Seifert:
Folktales as a Source for Historical Traces – The Reintroduction of Iron Working along the Central Kavango
Anne Storch:
Cultured Contact – Ritualisation and Semantics in Jukun
General Bibliography
Index of Languages and Subjects