A Linguistic Geography of Africa

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Author: Bernd Heine

ISBN-10: 0521876117

ISBN-13: 9780521876117

Category: Linguistics & Semiotics

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An edited collection of essays discussing the linguistic relationships between African languages.

List of maps     viiList of figures     viiiList of tables     ixList of contributors     xiSeries editor's foreword     xiiAcknowledgments     xivAbbreviations     xvIntroduction   Bernd Heine   Derek Nurse     1Is Africa a linguistic area?   Bernd Heine   Zelealem Leyew     15Africa as a phonological area   G. N. Clements   Annie Rialland     36Africa as a morphosyntactic area   Denis Creissels   Gerrit J. Dimmendaal   Zygmunt Frajzyngier   Christa Konig     86The Macro-Sudan belt: towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa   Tom Guldemann     151The Tanzanian Rift Valley area   Roland Kiessling   Maarten Mous   Derek Nurse     186Ethiopia   Joachim Crass   Ronny Meyer     228The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa   Christa Konig     251Africa's verb-final languages   Gerrit J. Dimmendaal     272Notes     309References     323Index     354