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Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African
Linguistics New Brunswick 2003
ISBN 978-3-89645-338-9
Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics New Brunswick 2003
Edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Oluseye Adesola. With contributions by Ben Elugbe, Tayo Bankale, Larry Hyman et al.
Series: World Congress of African Linguistics · Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine Volume 4
2004
10 pp. Roman, 575 pp., 3 b/w photos, 3 maps, numerous tables and charts, appendix, Hardcover
€ 64.00
CONTENTS:
I. Plenary Papers
Ben Elugbe / Tayo Bankale
Cognation Percentages in Benue-Congo: Implications for Internal Classification
Larry Hyman
Why Describe African Languages?
H. Ekkehard Wolff
Segments and Prosodies in Chadic: On Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy, Historical Reconstructions, and the Status of Lamang-Hdi
II. Phonetics and Phonology
Oluseye Adesola
Coda Deletion in the Yoruba Loan Phonology
Akinbiyi Akinlabi / Alexander Iwara
Transparency and Opacity in Lokaa Vowel Harmony
Michael Cahill
Marked Tones and Texture – The Necessity of High Tones in Konni
Bruce Connell
Pitch Realization of Questions and Statements in Mambila
Yoshihito Dobashi
Phonological Phrasing in Sandawe
Laura J. Downing
Constraint and Complexity in Subsegmental Representations
Alexander Iwara
The Grammatical Function of Tone on Lokaa
III. Morphology, Syntax and Semantics
Rose O. Aziza
Negation in Southwestern Edoid: The Case of Urhobo
Christa Beaudoin-Lietz / Derek Nurse / Sarah Rose
Pronominal Object Marking in Bantu
Stefan Elders
Distributed Predicative Syntax in Doyayo: Constituent Order Alternations and Cliticization
Zygmunt Fraijzyngier / Mohammed Munkaila
Point of View of the Subject as a Grammatical Category
Jason Kandybowicz
Predicate Clefts, Derivations, and Universal Grammar
Roland Kiessling
“The giraffes burst throw emerge climb pass through the roof of the hut”: Verbal Serialisation in the West Ring Languages (Isu, Weh, Aghem)
Zelealem Leyew
The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages
Michael R. Marlo
Prefixal Reduplication in Lusaamia: Evidence from Morphology
Philip W. Rudd
“Haya, Basi” “Okay so” Markers of Management and Interaction in Swahili Conversation
Josephat M. Rugemalira
Locative Arguments in Bantu
Ken Safir
On Person as a Model for Logophoricity
Ronald P. Schaefer / Francis O. Egbokhare
Emai Contact Constructions: Beyond Verbs in Series
Helga Schröder
The Relevance of Verbal Morphology in Toposa Discourse
Anne Storch
Traces of a Secret Language – Circumfixes in Hone (Jukun) Plurals
Weldu Michael Weldyesus
Locative Predication in Tigrinya
IV. Computational Linguistics
Tunde Adegbola
Probabilistically Speaking: A Quantitative Exploration of Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy
Rachélle Gauton / Gilles-Maurice de Schryver / Linkie Mohlala
A Corpus-based Investigation of the Zulu Nominal Suffix -kazi: A Preliminary Study
Wanjiku Nganga
Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation – Kiswahili Nouns
V. Historical Linguistics
Koen Bostoen
The Vocabulary of Pottery Fashioning Techniques in Great Lakes Bantu: A Comparative Onomasiological Study
Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche
Reconstruction of Initial Velar and Labial-Velar Consonants at the Pre-Lower Cross-Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid Stage of Benue-Congo
Henry Tourneux
Évolution Morphologique et syntaxique du parler des jeunes “Kotoko” de Goulfe (Cameroun)
Kay Williamson
Implosives in Mande-Atlantic-Congo
VI. Sociolinguistics
Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum
Bantu Gender Revisited through an Analysis of Basaá Categories: A Typological Perspective
Herman M. Batibo
The Role of the External Setting in Language Shift Process: The Case of the Nama-Speaking Ovaherero in Tshabong
Paul D. Fallon
The Best is Not Good Enough: Scouring a Previously Documented Language for More
Aurélia Ferrari
Le sheng: Expansion et Vernacularisation d’une Variété Urbaine Hybride à Nairobi
Helene Fatima Idris
The Status and Use of African Languages versus Arabic in Sudan: A Sociolinguistic Survey in Nyala, Darfur
H.R.T. Muzale
Developing a Language in a Complex Situation: Prospects and Challenges of Tanzanian Sign Language
Francis O. Oyebade / T.O. Agoyi
The Endangered Status of Marginalised Languages: Sosan and Ùkuè as Case Study
Solomon Oluwole Oyetade
Language Endangerment in Nigeria: Perspectives with the Akpes Cluster of Akoko Languages
Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter
Contact de Langues au Brésil: les Langues Africaines et le Portugais Brésilien
Eno-Abasi E. Urua
Language Marginalization: the Lower Cross Experience
Reviews
WOCAL 4 was combined with the 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: both were dedicated to the problems arising from the description of African Lnaguages in a rapidly changing world. [...] The Congress attracted a record number of participants from 22 countries, in majority of African origin! The attendance of several African scholars was enabled by substantial support from the National Science Foundation. [...] The proceedings of the WOCAL 4 have been as carefully and scrupulously edited as those contained in the previous three volumes. It main merit results from the fact that the book became an important forum for many young linguists from Africa.
Stanislaw Pilaszewicz in Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures 38/2005 pp. 105-111
In summary, this volume did not only offer an outlet for meaningful contributions on the description of African Languages in a rapidly changing field, but it has also incorporated profound and well argued analyses of nearly every aspect of languages study and description, i.e., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, computational linguistics, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. Moreover, all forty-two papers in this volume have contributed in different ways and in varying degrees to the quality and usefulness of this volume. Linguists in general and Africanists in particular will find this volume worth reading as it raises a number of new and significant questions that should lay the basis for further studies in the future. It is an invaluable contribution to the different linguistic sub-disciplines.
Abel Y. Mreta in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28/1, 2007 pp. 103-106
