Problems of Linguistic-Historical Reconstruction in Africa

Edited by: Dymitr Ibriszimow. With contributions by: Pascal Boyeldieu, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Axel Fleisch, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Tom Güldemann, Pierre Nougayrol †, Victor Porkhomovsky †, Konstantin Pozdniakov, Rainer Voßen.

Series: SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, Volume 19

Though geographically bound by their respective languages under discussion, the contributions to this publication still bear high relevance to African historical linguistics in general. Language reconstruction and comparative studies benefit from phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactical and semantical case studies. Further topics of the text include discussions on methods and theories of African historical-comparative linguistics.

CONTENTS

Preface

Pascal Boyeldieu / Pierre Nougayrol: Les langues soudaniques centrales – essai d’évaluation

Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Reconstructing the Historical Development of Nilotic – A Testcase for Cladistic and Rhizotic Models of Genetic Affinity

Axel Fleisch: The Reconstruction of Lexical Semantics in Bantu

Zygmunt Frajzyngier: The Historical Connection between the Movement away Marker and the Associative Preposition

Tom Güldemann: Greenberg’s “Case” for Khoisan – The Morphological Evidence

Victor Porkhomovsky: Hamito-Semitic Aspect System – The Case of Semitic and Berber

Konstantin Pozdniakov: Niveaux linguistiques et problèmes de reconstruction dans les langues atlantiques

Rainer Vossen: How to Comprehend the Obvious? Linguistic Variation and Dialect Geography – The African Experience

Addresses of contributors

Under these links you will find further publications of the contributors:

Accompanying material:

• Description grammaticale du kenga (langue nilo-saharienne du Tchad) (ISBN 978-3-89645-662-5)
• Dictionary of Hdi (ISBN 978-3-89645-299-3)
• Die Khoe-Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-927620-59-9)
• Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-89645-540-6)
• Identité tonale et filiation des langues sara-bongo-baguirmiennes (Afrique centrale) (ISBN 978-3-89645-096-8)
• Language, Identity, and Conceptualization among the Khoisan (ISBN 978-3-89645-143-9)
• Les classes nominales dans les langues atlantiques (ISBN 978-3-89645-565-9)
• Lucazi Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-038-8)
• Nuba Mountain Language Studies – New Insights (ISBN 978-3-89645-767-7)
• Surmic Languages and Cultures (ISBN 978-3-89645-131-6)

Cross-reference:

• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 1st Symposium 2003 (ISBN 978-3-89645-864-3)
• Linguistics across Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-510-9)
• Lone Tree – Scholarship in the Service of the Koon (ISBN 978-3-89645-227-6)
• Mechthildian Approaches to Afrikanistik – Advances in Language Based Research on Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-226-9)

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