
Linguistics across Africa
Festschrift for Rainer Vossen
Edited by: Klaus Beyer, Gertrud Boden, Bernhard Köhler, Ulrike Zoch. With a foreword by: Klaus Beyer, Gertrud Boden, Bernhard Köhler, Ulrike Zoch. With contributions by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Alan Barnard †, Sebastian Koug Bemile, Anderson M. Chebanne, Abdourahmane Diallo, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Edward D. Elderkin, Anne-Maria Fehn, Jost Gippert, Tom Güldemann, Bernd Heine, Osamu Hieda, Dymitr Ibriszimow, Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Christa Kilian-Hatz, Bernhard Köhler, Christa König, Rudolf Leger, Karsten Legère, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Marie Ngom, Robert Nicolaï, Coffi Sambiéni, Henning Schreiber, Anne Storch, Akira Takada, Ahmad Tela Baba †, Thomas Widlok, Edwin N. Wilmsen, Balarabe Zulyadaini.
2018377 pp.
1 colour map, 6 b/w maps, 12 colour photographs, 3 colour figures, 5 b/w figures, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English, French, German
Format: 170 x 240 mm
700 g
Paperback
€ 98.00
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CONTENTS
Geleitwort der HerausgeberInnen
Rudolf Leger: Rainer Vossen – Für Afrika bestimmt!
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Information structure in the West African Benue-Congo languages Hõne, Igbo, Kana, Kuteb, and Yukuben
Alan Barnard: Was the first language a Khoisan language?
Sebastian K. Bemile: The proverb and universal thought
Andy Chebanne: Eastern Kalahari Khoe languages – An update of their sociolinguistic and linguistic situations in Botswana
Abdourahmane Diallo: Approximations phonologiques chez les locuteurs sosophones du français informel
Gerrit Dimmendaal: On word-final voicing contrasts in Nilotic and beyond
Edward Elderkin: Historical correlates of stress in ‖Ani
Anne-Maria Fehn: Revisiting tense and aspect in the Khoe language family
Jost Gippert: Sound systems in diachrony – Sibilants and affricates in Udi
Tom Güldemann: Did Proto-Tuu have a paradigm of cardinal numbers?
Osamu Hieda: “Prefix-like” elements in Nilotic
Dymitr Ibriszimow / Balaraba Zulyadaini / Ahmad Tela Baba: Friendship requires visits – Hausa zumunci from a cognitive semantic point of view
Herrmann Jungraithmayr: Yibat = sányíi und andere „unmögliche“ Gleichungen im Tschadischen
Christa Kilian-Hatz: On the pygmies’ trail
Bernhard Köhler: Zu den Grundlagen der Sprachtypologie aus afrikanistischer Sicht
Christa König / Bernd Heine: Discourse markers in !Xun (W2 dialect)
Karsten Legère: Il-Torobo and their language(s) in Tanzania – An update
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: Dialectological comparison of the Northeast Bantu languages
Marie Ngom: Un marque de classe déficitaire
Robert Nicolaï: Comparer pour (trouver) quoi ? Ce qu’on cherche et ce qu’on trouve en linguistique, et en général
Coffi Sambiéni: Etude comparative des classes nominales du ditammari et du mbɛlimɛ
Henning Schreiber: Distances and clusters in Bisa – Dialectometry revisited
Anne Storch: Linguistic landscapes of tourism – A case study from Zanzibar
Akira Takada: Diversity in child-rearing practices among the San – Characteristics of gymnastic behaviour among the G/ui/G//ana
Thomas Widlok: A practice approach to Hai//om storytelling
Ed Wilmsen: Talking of things at Tsodilo – A multi-lingual Iron Age community in north-western Botswana in the 7th–10th centuries CE
Accompanying material:
- Codeswitching in Gambia
(ISBN 978-3-927620-24-7 ) - Die Khoe-Sprachen
(ISBN 978-3-927620-59-9 ) - Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels
(ISBN 978-3-927620-25-4 )
Cross-reference:
- « Parcours berbères »
(ISBN 978-3-89645-933-6 ) - African Linguistics in the 21st Century
(ISBN 978-3-89645-765-3 ) - From the Tana River to Lake Chad – Research in African Oratures and Literatures
(ISBN 978-3-89645-836-0 ) - Kanuri, Borno and Beyond
(ISBN 978-3-89645-892-6 ) - Lone Tree – Scholarship in the Service of the Koon
(ISBN 978-3-89645-227-6 ) - Sprachen und Sprachzeugnisse in Afrika
(ISBN 978-3-927620-95-7 ) - Studia Chadica
(ISBN 978-3-89645-195-8 ) - The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices
(ISBN 978-3-89645-850-6 )
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