2009
385 Seiten, 1 Farbfoto, 2 s/w-Fotos, 9 Farbkarten, 8 s/w-Karten, 10 Farbabbildungen, 22 s/w-Abbildungen, 37 Tabellen, Index, Format: 240 x 170 mm
€ 78,00

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Preface

W.J.G. Möhlig, Frank Seidel & Marc Seifert
Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa

Roger Blench
Was there an Interchange between Cushitic Pastoralists and Khoesan Speakers in the Prehistory of Southern Africa and how Can this be Detected?

Koen Bostoen
Semantic Vagueness and Cross-linguistic Lexical Fragmentation in Bantu. Impeding Factors for Linguistic Palaeontology

Inge Brinkman
Writing, Oral Traditions and the Construction of Ethnic Identities

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Esoterogeny and Localist Strategies in a Nuba Mountain Community

Axel Fleisch
Language History in SE Angola. The Ngangela-Nyemba Dialect Cluster

Wilfrid H.G. Haacke
Crossing the Linguistic Divide between Namibian Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe. Possible Directions for Future Research

Eileen Kose
A Sketch of Pre-Colonial Metalworking in Northern Namibia and Southern Angola

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig
Historiography on the Basis of Contemporary Linguistic Data. The Herero Case

Robert Nicolaï
Language Contact, Areality, and History. The Songhay Question Revisited

Henning Schreiber
Social Networks, Linguistic Variation and Micro Change in an African Context. A Case Study in the Borderland of Mali and Burkina Faso

Frank Seidel
Layered Language Genesis in the ‘Catch Basin’ of the Linyanti and Okavango Swamps: The Case of Yeyi

Marc Seifert
Folktales as a Source for Historical Traces: The Reintroduction of Iron Working along the Central Kavango

Anne Storch
Cultured Contact: Ritualisation and Semantics in Jukun

General Bibliography

Index of Languages and Subjects

Addresses of Contributors

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