The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Author: Tomasz Kamusella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1137015934

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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

A grammar of Fwe
A grammar of Fwe

Author: Hilde Gunnink

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2022-07-06

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 3961103887

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This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe. Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some 20,000 people. Very little previous documentation exists on the language, and the current description of Fwe is based exclusively on newly collected field data. It includes an analysis of the grammatical structure of Fwe, followed by basic cultural information on greetings, a Fwe narrative with its English translation, and a lexicon comprising some 2200 Fwe lexemes with their English translation. This book is intended as a resource for linguists, whether interested in African languages, Bantu languages, language typology, or general linguistics.

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Author: James Essegbey

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9027268150

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This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that range from the development of a writing system to ideologies of language endangerment, from working with displaced communities to the role of colonial languages in reshaping African repertoires, and from the insights of archeology to the challenges of language documentation as a doctoral project. The authors are concerned with both theoretical and practical aspects of language documentation as they address the ways in which the African context both differs from and resembles contexts of endangerment elsewhere in the world. This volume will be useful to fieldworkers and documentalists who work in Africa and beyond.

Theory and description in African Linguistics
Theory and description in African Linguistics

Author: Emily Clem

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 3961102058

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The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.

Click Consonants
Click Consonants

Author: Bonny Sands

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 9004424350

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Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to explore cutting-edge research on the linguistics of this remarkable yet oft-overlooked class of consonants.