Language Change under Multilingual Conditions

Case Studies from Africa

Edited by: Klaus Beyer, Raija Kramer. With an introduction by: Klaus Beyer, Raija Kramer. With contributions by: Klaus Beyer, Bruce Connell, Raija Kramer, Holger W. Markgraf, Nico Nassenstein, Henning Schreiber, Georg Ziegelmeyer.

Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2012, Volume 24

2017
144 pp.
2 colour maps, 1 b/w photo, 1 colour chart, 8 charts, 1 colour figure, 1 draft, numerous tables and overviews
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
290 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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CONTENTS

Klaus Beyer / Raija Kramer: Introduction – language change under multilingual conditions

Klaus Beyer: Language development under multilingual conditions – towards an agent based simulation of contact-induced language development

Raija Kramer: On canines, classes and concordances – linguistic variation and norm development in Fulfulde varieties of Ngaoundéré (Adamawa Region, Cameroon)

Henning Schreiber: Linguistic solidarity against ultra-hyper-diversity – Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos

Nico Nassenstein: Style, sociability and innovations in Makerere English

Holger Markgraf: Variation and linguistic change in Mbum

Bruce Connell: Language history and language contact in the Mambiloid Region of Cameroon

Georg Ziegelmeyer: A note on contact scenarios in the wider Lake Chad Region

 

Under these links you will find publications of the contributors and further studies of language contact and multilingualism in Africa:

Accompanying material:

• A Study of Mambila – Emmi Meyer’s Mambila-Studie (ISBN 978-3-89645-234-4)
• Aspects of Co- and Subordination (ISBN 978-3-89645-888-9)
• Aspekte adverbialer Subordination im Hausa, Fulfulde und Kanuri (ISBN 978-3-89645-469-0)
• Die Sprache der Fali in Nordkamerun (ISBN 978-3-89645-561-1)
• Fading Delimitations (ISBN 978-3-89645-904-6)
• La langue pana (Burkina Faso et Mali) (ISBN 978-3-89645-117-0)
• Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-093-7)
• Pferde, Schwerter und Macht (ISBN 978-3-89645-112-5)
• When Languages Meet (ISBN 978-3-89645-257-3)

Cross-reference:

• Codeswitching in Gambia (ISBN 978-3-927620-24-7)
• Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels (ISBN 978-3-927620-25-4)
• Historical Language Contact in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-091-3)
• Inheritance, Contact, and Change in Two East African Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-270-2)
• Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia (ISBN 978-3-89645-258-0)
• Linguistic Landshapes (ISBN 978-3-89645-085-2)
• Sprachwandel durch Sprachkontakt am Beispiel des Nubischen im Niltal (ISBN 978-3-927620-26-1)
• Tsotsitaal in South Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-086-9)

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