African Languages: An IntroductionBernd Heine, Derek Nurse Cambridge University Press, 03.08.2000 - 396 Seiten This book is the first general introduction to African languages and linguistics to be published in English. It covers the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. |
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adpositions affixes African languages Afroasiatic analysis Arabic Bantoid Bantu languages basic word order Benue-Congo Berber branches Central Sudanic Chadic languages chapter classification clusters common comparative complex consonant constituent order contrast creole Cushitic derived dialect distinction East Ehret Ethio-Semitic example function gender genetic grammatical Greenberg groups guages Hausa head noun implosives inflection involves Kanuri Khoe Khoisan languages Kordofanian Kru languages Kunama lexical linguistic features loan words main clause Mande marked markers modifiers morphemes morphology multilingualism nasal Niger-Congo languages Nilo-Saharan languages Nilotic nominal noun class noun phrase object Omotic Omotic languages pattern phoneme phonological phylum pidgins plural prefixes pronoun reconstruction referred relative clause root Saharan segments semantic Semitic sentence sequence singular social Songay sounds speakers spoken structure subgroups suffixes Swahili syllable syntactic tion tone typological varieties verb forms verbal vocabulary voice Volta-Congo vowel West
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