Loanwords in the World's Languages

Loanwords in the World's Languages

Author: Martin Haspelmath

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 1104

ISBN-13: 3110218437

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"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.


Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa

Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa

Author: Ian Maddieson

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780865436329

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For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.


The Pate Chronicle

The Pate Chronicle

Author: Marina Tolmacheva

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 1609173023

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In late October 1890, a British force led by Admiral Fremantle assaulted and subdued the East African town of Witu, the mainland capital of the Nabahani rulers of Pate; five years later, the entire region and the adjacent coastal islands came under British administration. One of the great tragedies suffered as a result of Admiral Fremantle's initial attack was the loss of the original manuscript of the history of Pate, The Book of the Kings of Pate. This historical work in its various forms is representative of a living historical tradition developed in the coastal city-states of East Africa and is considered one of the important literary treasures of their culture and society. It also stands as the most important indigenous source for Swahili history, the history of the Swahili language, its dialects, and its written tradition. The four Arabic-Swahili versions (manuscripts 177, 321, 344, and 358 of the Library of the University of Dar es Salaam) presented here in The Pate Chronicle add significantly to the growing pool of information available about Pate and East Africa before the era of European colonialism.


Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion

Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion

Author: Éva Ágnes Csató

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780415308045

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The volume in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, is the first of its kind, providing a summary of the present results of this dynamic field of research.