Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Sources in Africa

Edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Frank Seidel, Marc Seifert. With contributions by: Roger M. Blench, Koen Bostoen, Inge Brinkman, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Axel Fleisch, Wilfrid H.G. Haacke, Eileen Kose, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Robert Nicolaï, Henning Schreiber, Frank Seidel, Marc Seifert, Anne Storch.

Series: SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, Volume 20

CONTENTS

Preface

Wilhelm 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

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further studies of language contact in various African language families:

Accompanying material:

• “Grandmother’s Footsteps” (ISBN 978-3-89645-056-2)
• „Derjenige, der sich selbst erschaffen hat …“ (ISBN 978-3-89645-283-2)
• A Dictionary of the Rumanyo Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-601-4)
• A Grammar of Yeyi (ISBN 978-3-89645-549-9)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Rugciriku (Rumanyo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-542-0)
• Atlas of Kamba Dialects (Kenya Bantu E.55) (ISBN 978-3-89645-708-0)
• Cultural Change in the Prehistory of Arid Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-092-0)
• Language Change under Multilingual Conditions (ISBN 978-3-89645-724-0)
• Lucazi Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-038-8)
• Narrations of the Kavango (ISBN 978-3-89645-279-5)
• Singing in the Bush (ISBN 978-3-89645-355-6)
• The Bantu Languages of the Kenya Coast (ISBN 978-3-89645-716-5)
• Towards Interdisciplinarity (ISBN 978-3-89645-886-5)
• When Languages Meet (ISBN 978-3-89645-257-3)

Cross-reference:

• Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria vol. I (ISBN 978-3-89645-426-3)
• Berber in Contact / Le berbère en contact (ISBN 978-3-89645-922-0)
• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Historical Language Contact in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-091-3)
• Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia (ISBN 978-3-89645-258-0)
• Nuba Mountain Language Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-427-0)
• Nuba Mountain Language Studies – New Insights (ISBN 978-3-89645-767-7)
• The Amazigh Language at Home and at School (ISBN 978-3-89645-921-3)

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