A Linguistic Geography of Africa /
An edited 2007 collection of essays discussing the linguistic relationships between African languages
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007
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| Series: | Cambridge approaches to language contact
Cambridge books online |
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| Summary: | An edited 2007 collection of essays discussing the linguistic relationships between African languages More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, has never been the subject of major research. The aim of this book is to show that such similarities across African languages are more common than is widely believed. It provides a broad perspective on Africa as a linguistic area, as well as an analysis of specific linguistic regions. In order to have a better understanding of African languages, their structures, and their history, more information on these contact-induced relationships is essential in order to understand Africa's linguistic geography, and reconstruct its history and prehistory |
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| Item Description: | 4.4.7 The adjectival modifier Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Nov 2012) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (371 pages) 1 online resource (408 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) Also available in print |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0511369611 051137013X 0511371136 0511486278 9780511369612 9780511370137 9780511371134 9780511486272 9780521876117 |
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