Description: Diversity in African Languages, Paperback by Payne, Doris L.; Pacchiarotti, Sara; Bosire, Mokaya, ISBN 1542598222, ISBN-13 9781542598224, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Diversity in African languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development. These chapters represent nine different genera: Mande, Gur, Kwa, Edoid, Bantu, Nilotic, Gumuzic, Cushitic, and Omotic. Other chapters investigate a mix of languages and families, moving from typological issues to sociolinguistic and inter-ethnic factors that affect language and accent switching. Some chapters are primarily descriptive, while others push forward the theoretical understanding of tone, semantic problems, discourse related structures, and other linguistic systems. The papers on Bantu languages reflect something of the internal richness and continued fascination of the family for linguists, as well as maturation of research on the family. The distribution of other papers highlights the need for intensified research into all the language families of Africa, including basic documentation, in order to comprehend linguistic diversities and convergences across the continent. In this regard, the chapter on Daats'iin (Gumuzic) stands out as the first-ever published article on this hitherto unknown and endangered language found in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border lands.
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Book Title: Diversity in African Languages
Number of Pages: 600 Pages
Publication Name: Diversity in African Languages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Subject: Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.4 in
Item Weight: 41.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Mokaya Bosire, Sara Pacchiarotti, Doris Payne
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Series: Contemporary African Linguistics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
