
Proceedings of the 2nd WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997
Edited by: H. Ekkehard Wolff, Orin D. Gensler. With contributions by: Mohamed H. Abdulaziz, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Mahaman Bachir Attouman, Yiwola Awoyale, Ayo Bamgbose, Steve Barrett, Roger M. Blench, Jasmina Bonato, Sonja E. Bosch, Malami Buba, Malami Buba, Eugene H. Casad, France Cloarec-Heiss, Bruce Connell, Denis Creissels, Djita Issa Djarangar, Nikolai Dobronravin, Michael J.C. Echeruo, Francis O. Egbokhare, Okon Essien, Rachélle Gauton, Peter Gottschligg, Edgar E. Gregersen, Gerald Heusing, John P. Hutchison, Peter Kalchofner, Roland Kießling, Adrian Koopman, Andrew Tilimbe Kulemeka, Catherine Labroussi, Roger Mickala-Manfoumbi, Kamal Naït-Zerrad, Paul Newman, Robert Nicolaï, Steve Nicolle, Philip A. Noss, Knut J. Olawsky, Kenneth S. Olson, B. Akíntúndé Oyètádé, Paulette Roulon-Doko, Ronald P. Schaefer, Brian E. Schrag, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Henry Tourneux, Eno-Abasi E. Urua, Sr. Uwalaka, Lolke J. van der Veen, Martine Vanhove, John R. Watters, Kay Williamson †.
Series: World Congress of African Linguistics Volume 2
200010 pp. Roman, 791 pp.
8 maps, 59 illustrations, 7 diagrams, numerous tables
Text language(s): English, French
Format: 160 x 240 mm
1480 g
Hardcover
€ 69.80
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CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Mohamed H. Abdulaziz: Some Issues of Concern in the Linguistics of African Languages
Ayo Bamgbose: African Language Use and Development – Aspirations and Reality
Paul Newman: Writing a Reference Grammar of an African Language – Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Kay Williamson: Towards Reconstructing Proto-Niger-Congo
I. LANGUAGE IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Steve Barrett / Eugene H. Casad: What they say and what they do
Nikolai Dobronravin: Hausa, Songhay and Mande Languages in Nigeria – Multilingualism in Kebbi and Sokoto
Okon Essien: What is in a Name? A Linguistic and Cultural Explication of Ibibio Personal Names
Philip A. Noss: “Language of the Streets” and Editorial Commentary in Cameroon
Lolke Van der Veen: Étude de la dénomination des troubles pathologiques en Afrique centrale bantoue
II. LANGUAGE IN TIME AND SPACE
Roger Blench: Revising Plateau – Recent Research on the Languages of Central Nigeria
France Cloarec-Heiss: Mesures dialectales en 3 dimensions – application à une aire dialectale hétérogène, l’aire banda
Bruce Connell: The Integrity of Mambiloid
Djita Issa Djarangar: Essai de classification des langues sara
Edgar E. Gregersen: Some Thoughts on Afro-Dravidian
B. Akíntúndé Oyètádé/ Malami Buba: Hausa Loan Words in Yorùbá
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle: Situation linguistique dans le sud de l’Erythrée
III. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Akinbiyi Akinlabi / Eno Urua: Tone in Ibibio Verbal Reduplication
Yiwola Awoyale: The Phonological Structure of Yoruba Ideophones
Denis Creissels: A Domain-Based Approach to Setswana Tone
Catherine Labroussi: Spirant-Devoicing and Genetic Classification in Eastern Bantu
Robert Nicolaï: Voyelles nasales ou consonnes aspirées nasales en songhay (approche de la marginalité)
Knut J. Olawsky: Tone Patterns and Morphology in Dagbani – The Prosodic Structure of Nouns
Kenneth S. Olson / Brian E. Schrag: An Overview of Mono Phonology
John R. Watters: Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung) – The Case of Lexical and Postlexical Tone on Nouns
IV. GRAMMAR AND LEXICON
Mahaman Bachir Attouman: L’opposition occurrence ouverte / occurrence fermée à travers le système aspectuel du hawsa
Jasmina Bonato: Surprise! Surprise! How the Future Tense is Used to Mark Dramatisation in Twi (Akan) Narrative Discourse
Sonja E. Bosch: On the Conceptualization of Possession in Zulu
Malami Buba: On the Deictic Features of Speaker-Based Hausa Demonstratives
Michael J.C. Echeruo: The Igbo Verb and the Lexicon
Rachélle Gauton: Locative Noun Classes in Bantu – The Case for Recognizing Two Additional Locative Noun Class Prefixes
Peter Gottschligg: Subject Choice of Applicative Verbs in North-Atlantic
Gerald Heusing: Defective Double Object Constructions in Lamang (Central Chadic)
John P. Hutchison: Predicate Focusing Constructions in African and Diaspora Languages
Peter Kalchofner: Stative Verbs in Twi (Akan)
Cross-reference:
- Actes du 3e WOCAL Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine, Lomé 2000
(ISBN 978-3-89645-335-8 ) - African Linguistics at the Crossroads
(ISBN 978-3-89645-120-0 ) - Proceedings of the 4th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003
(ISBN 978-3-89645-338-9 ) - Proceedings of the 6th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009
(ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6 )
Reviews
[...] both scientific editors and Rüdiger Köppe Verlag deserve congratulations for this exemplary piece of work.
Stanislaw Pilaszewicz in Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, 29/2001, 68-75
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