1997
XIV, 645 Seiten
zahlreiche Tabellen und Graphiken
Textsprachen: Englisch, Französisch
INHALT
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
Unter diesen Verweisen finden Sie die Konferenzbände der WOCAL World Conference of African Linguistics und der AfrikanistInnentage sowie Publikationen der Beitragenden:
