Topics in Chadic Linguistics VII

Papers from the 6th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, September 22-23, 2011

Edited by: Henry Tourneux. With contributions by: Sergio Baldi, Gian Claudio Batic, Václav Blažek, Roger M. Blench, Bernard Caron, Jules Jacques Coly, Richard Gravina, Mary Pearce, James S. Roberts, Olga Stolbova, Alessandro Suzzi Valli, Gábor Takács, Henry Tourneux, H. Ekkehard Wolff, Ulrike Zoch. Series edited by: Dymitr Ibriszimow, Henry Tourneux, H. Ekkehard Wolff.

Series: CLT Chadic Linguistics · Linguistique Tchadique · Tschadistik Volume 8

CONTENTS

Préface

Sergio Baldi: Arabic loans in Bole-Tangale languages

Gian Claudio Batic: The Bure language – an overview

Václav Blazek: Kujarge wordlist with Chadic (Afroasiatic) cognates

Roger Blench: Mwaghavul expressives

Bernard Caron: Tonal inversion in Geji and Pelu

Richard Gravina: The history of vowels and prosodies in Central Chadic

Mary Pearce: Observations concerning the metrical systems of three Chadic languages

James Roberts: The tone system of Mawa

Olga Stolbova: Postvelars in Chadic – Internal reconstruction and external parallels, Part I

Alessandro Suzzi Valli / Jules Jacques Coly: The Maaka language – First insights

Gábor Takács: Musgu and Masa h- vs. h- and Afro-Asiatic

Henry Tourneux: Les noms de poissons en kotoko commun

H. Ekkehard Wolff: On the diachronics of Chadic tone systems – From pitch to tone in Lamang-Hdi

Ulrike Zoch: Perfectives in the Bole-Tangale languages

Under these links you will find the proceedings volumes of the BICCL Biennial International Colloquia on the Chadic Languages, publications by the contributors and grammars of the West-Chadic language Bure and of the Central Chadic language Lamang:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammatical Sketch of Bure (ISBN 978-3-89645-528-4)
• Dictionary of Hdi (ISBN 978-3-89645-299-3)
• Our People’s Own (Ina Lamang) (ISBN 978-3-89645-290-0)
• The Lamang Language and Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-294-8)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics II (ISBN 978-3-89645-522-2)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics III Historical Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-523-9)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV Comparative and Descriptive Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-524-6)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics IX (ISBN 978-3-89645-529-1)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics V (ISBN 978-3-89645-525-3)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics VI (ISBN 978-3-89645-526-0)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics VIII (ISBN 978-3-89645-531-4)
• Topics in Chadic Linguistics X (ISBN 978-3-89645-530-7)

Cross-reference:

• Fading Delimitations (ISBN 978-3-89645-904-6)
• Issues in African Languages and Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-365-5)
• Linguistics across Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-510-9)
• Studia Africana (ISBN 978-3-89645-915-2)

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