Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Eastern Nigeria, Part 1, Introduction, Phonology and Comparative Vocabulary
Ekoid Bantu Languages of Ogoja, Eastern Nigeria, Part 1, Introduction, Phonology and Comparative Vocabulary

Author: David W. Crabb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780521175272

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Dr Crabb's 1965 study of the Ekoid Bantu languages of Ogoja examines these related languages as a basis of comparative historical research. He chose fourteen of these Ekoid languages as representative of a number of languages in the north-west area of Nigeria bordering on the Bantu language area, whose status as Bantu languages has been open to question. This study is based on extensive field work and presents comparatively the phonologies and selected vocabularies of the languages.

Leopards and Leaders
Leopards and Leaders

Author: Malcolm Ruel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1136533605

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This study of politics and government among a West African people, the Banyang of the Upper Cross River, covers the end of the period of Colonial administration. The book: · Shows the inter-relationship between the structure of the small forest communities and the highly autonomous processes by which they were governed · Analyses the relationship between residence and common descent as principles of corporate grouping · Includes a case study of the political struggle involved in one community's claims to independence. Originally published in 1969.

East Benue-Congo
East Benue-Congo

Author: John R. Watters

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3961101000

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This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.

African Historical Archaeologies
African Historical Archaeologies

Author: Andrew M. Reid

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-28

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1441988637

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This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole. This seminal volume also explores Africa's place in global systems of thought and economic development and is of interest to historical archaeologists and historians.

Bibliography of Nigeria
Bibliography of Nigeria

Author: Nduntuei O. Ita

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 0429749228

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First published in 1971, this major bibliography devoted to Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria – is therefore a timely contribution which must be welcomed by all. The Bibliography of Nigeria contains over 5,400 entries in archaeology, all branches of anthropology, linguistic and relevant historical and sociological studies. Many of the entries carry indicative or informative annotations which have greatly enhanced the usefulness of the work. The history and culture of Africa constitutes a rich area of study and research which is attracting an ever-increasing number of scholars the world over. The new impetus which African studies is receiving in the major centre of learning today has added urgency to the long-neglected problem of bibliographical control of the vast literature. The dearth of bibliographies in the field of African studies has been a main source of frustration to all those working in this area. The book is divided into two parts: part one deals with Nigeria as a whole, and lists general works or those concerned with several regions or several ethnic groups. Part two is devoted to the various ethnic groups. An analytical table of contents, a comprehensive ethnic index, an author index and an index of Islamic studies, together with generous cross-referencing, ensure ready and easy location of individual entries.

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Author: Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9027211787

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This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

The Origins and Development of African Livestock
The Origins and Development of African Livestock

Author: Roger Blench

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-01-27

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1135434166

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This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins of African livestock, placing Africa as one of the world centres for animal domestication. With sections on archaeology, genetics, linguistics and ethnography, this collection contains over twenty contributions from the field's foremost experts and provides fully illustrated, never before published data, and extensive bibliographies.

Genetic Linguistics
Genetic Linguistics

Author: Joseph Greenberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-03-17

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 019925771X

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This book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. William Croft sets the work in context and considers its impact and the bitter controversy it excited.