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1 online resource (371 pages) |
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Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact |
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Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Language contact; Change in typological profile; Areal distribution: word order; Micro-areas; The present volume; 2 Is Africa a linguistic area; 2.1 On linguistic areas; 2.2 Earlier work; 2.3 "Africanisms"; 2.3.1 Grammar; 2.3.2 Polysemy and grammaticalization; 2.3.3 Conclusion; 2.4 A survey; 2.4.1 The data; 2.4.2 Isopleth mapping; 2.4.3 Genetic vs. areal distribution; 2.5 Conclusions; 3 Africa as a phonological area |
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3.1 Phonological zones in Africa3.2 Segmental features; 3.2.1 Preliminaries; 3.2.2 Three Sudanic consonant types; 3.2.3 Labial flaps; 3.2.4 Labial-velar stops; 3.2.5 Nasal vowels and nasal consonants; 3.2.6 Vowel systems and vowel harmony; 3.2.6.1 ATR vowel harmony; 3.2.6.2 Bantu vowel harmony; 3.2.6.3 Raising harmony in the Sotho-Tswana languages; 3.2.7 Implosives and other non-obstruent stops; 3.2.8 Ejectives, aspirated stops, and clicks; 3.2.9 Languages without P-sounds; 3.2.10 Features of the eastern Sudanic belt; 3.3 Prosodic features; 3.3.1 Overview; 3.3.2 Number of tone levels |
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3.3.3 "Lax" question markers: an areal feature?3.3.3.1 Type 1 question markers, involving H pitch or raising; 3.3.3.2 Type 2 question markers, not involving H pitch or raising; 3.3.3.3 Cancellation of penultimate lengthening; 3.3.3.4 Conclusion: a "lax" question marker in African languages; 3.4 Summary and discussion; Appendix; 4 Africa as a morphosyntactic area; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Core grammatical relations; 4.2.1 The recognition of subjects and objects; 4.2.2 Subject/object case marking typology; 4.2.3 Subject/object indexation typology; 4.2.3.1 Types of pronominal markers |
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4.2.3.2 Obligatory vs. discourse dependent subject/object markers4.2.3.3 Weak pronouns representing core arguments but attached to a word other than the verb; 4.2.3.4 Distinctions in the shape of subject and object markers; 4.2.4 Special treatment of indefinite or non-referential objects; 4.2.5 The status of the "indirect object" (or "dative"); 4.3 The verb; 4.3.1 Presence vs. absence of a verbal inflection, and the use of grammatical words expressing the same types of distinctions as verbal inflection |
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4.3.2 Types of distinctions expressed through verbal inflection or variations of a grammatical word that obligatorily accompanies the verb4.3.3 Auxiliary verbs and compound verb forms; 4.3.4 Dependent verb forms; 4.3.5 Transitivity and morphological coding of operations on verb valency; 4.3.6 Serial verbs; 4.3.7 Verbal number; 4.3.8 Evidentiality; 4.4 The noun and the noun phrase; 4.4.1 Nominal classification; 4.4.2 Referentiality and definiteness; 4.4.3 Number; 4.4.4 Morphological coding of the syntactic role of noun phrases; 4.4.5 Linkers and construct forms; 4.4.6 The genitival modifier |
| Summary |
An edited 2007 collection of essays discussing the linguistic relationships between African languages |
| Notes |
4.4.7 The adjectival modifier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African languages.
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Languages in contact -- Africa
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Linguistic geography.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
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African languages
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Languages in contact
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Linguistic geography
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Afrikanische Sprachen
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Sprachgeografie
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Africa
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Afrika
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Afrikanische Sprachen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heine, Bernd, 1939-
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Nurse, Derek.
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| ISBN |
9780511370137 |
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051137013X |
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9780511369612 |
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0511369611 |
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9780511371134 |
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0511371136 |
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9780511486272 |
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0511486278 |
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