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Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 1316519546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Published: 2023-11-08
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1009346350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDue to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.
Author: Larry M. Hyman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-04-09
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 311045193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology and cross-linguistic (formal) phonology. The purpose of this book is to bring together leading scholars to address the issue of phonological typology, both in terms of the unity and the diversity of phonological systems.
Author: Gábor Takács
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 222
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 1034
ISBN-13: 3110421666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
Author: James Essegbey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-11-07
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 3985541191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains some of the papers there were presented at ACAL 51-52, which was organized virtually at the University of Florida. A couple were accepted for presentation at ACAL 51, which was canceled because of COVID-19. The theme of ACAL 51-52 was African linguistics: pushing the boundaries. There are 18 papers and an introduction: two phonetics papers, five phonology papers, nine syntax papers, one sociolinguistics paper and one typology paper.
Author: Gábor Takács
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-05-16
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9004506861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the introductory volume to the first dictionary on the etymological relations between ancient Egyptian and other Afro-Asiatic languages. Gábor Takács’ new multi-volume Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian (now to appear at regular intervals of about 12-18 months) will be a hallmark in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic linguistics. The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian with its related Afro-Asiatic languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative and interpretative purposes and the unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field. Volume 1, the opening volume of the dictionary, can rightly be called the key to the work; it not only provides the users with a comprehensive analysis of the Afro-Asiatic background of the Egyptian consonant system, but also offers a critical appraisal of linguistic theories on Egyptian historical phonology, the problems surrounding the origins of the Egyptian language, and an extensive bibliography to the dictionary volumes to appear.
Author: Jacqueline Lecarme
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789027237095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996. The languages discussed include (varieties of) Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Chaha, Wolof, and Old Egyptian.
Author: Vitaliĭ Viktorovich Shevoroshkin
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 198
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