A Grammar of Mbembe
A Grammar of Mbembe

Author: Doris Richter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 900428396X

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A Grammar of Mbembe is a description of a little studied Jukunoid language which is spoken in the borderland of Nigeria and Cameroon. Present-day structures of different dialects are described and discussed with respect to diachronic developments. It is based on extensive fieldwork, but also takes into consideration previous work on Mbembe and other Jukunoid languages. The main topics in the chapters on the noun phrase and the verb and simple sentence structures are nominal classification and number marking based on Ablaut phenomena and tone, argument structure, and serial verb constructions. The remaining chapters cover phonology, complex structures, information structure and requesting information, and other word classes. This is complemented by example texts and a word list in the appendix.

A Grammar of Luwo
A Grammar of Luwo

Author: Anne Storch

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9027269378

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This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of expressing the Self, as a medium of art and self-actualization, and sometimes as a medium of writing. It is spoken in the home and in public spaces, by fairly large numbers of people who identify themselves as Luwo and as members of all kinds of other groups. In order to provide insights into these dynamic and diverse realities of Luwo, this book contains both a concise description and analysis of the linguistic features and structures of Luwo, and an approach to the anthropological linguistics of this language. The latter is presented in the form of separate chapters on possession, number, experiencer constructions, spatial orientation, perception and cognition. In all sections of this study, sociolinguistic information is provided wherever this is useful and possible, detailed information on the semantics of grammatical features and constructions is given, and discussions of theory-oriented approaches to various linguistic features of Luwo are presented.

A Grammar of Diola-Fogny
A Grammar of Diola-Fogny

Author: J. David Sapir

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-08-11

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780521175043

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Dr Sapir's 1969 monograph presents a descriptive study of the most important dialect of the West African Diola people.

Approaches to Language and Culture
Approaches to Language and Culture

Author: Svenja Völkel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-08-22

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 3110727153

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This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

The Linguistics of Olfaction
The Linguistics of Olfaction

Author: Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9027260176

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This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012

Author: G. Atindogbe

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9956764981

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This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.

Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
Repertoires and Choices in African Languages

Author: Friederike Lüpke

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1614511942

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Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.

Nurturing Language
Nurturing Language

Author: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 3110727145

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This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.

A Grammar of Mupun
A Grammar of Mupun

Author: Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Mupun is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria, in an area within the Lankan District. It is considered a dialect of Mwaghavul.