| Description |
1 online resource |
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Contemporary African Linguistics ; 3 |
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Contemporary African linguistics ; 3.
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General linguistics. Linguistic complexity : a case study from Swahili / Kyle Jerro -- Inter-party insults in political discourse in Ghana : a critical discourse analysis / Emmanuel Amo Ofori -- Classification of Guébie within Kru / Hannah Leigh Sande -- What about Southern African story grammar? Promoting language specific macrostructures in educational settings / Heike Tappe -- Language endangerment. Linguistic imperialism and language decolonisation in Africa through documentation and preservation / Kofi Agyekum -- Dictionary day : a community-driven approach to dictionary compilation / Bryan D. Gelles -- Language endangerment in Southwestern Burkina : a tale of two Tiefos / Abbie Hantgan-Sonko -- Morphology and phonology. Consonant substitution in child language (Ikwere) / Roseline I.C. Alerechi -- A morphosyntactic analysis of adjectives in two Kwa languages : Ga and Dangme / Regina Oforiwah Caesar and Yvonne A.A. Ollennu -- Towards a unified theory of morphological productivity in the Bantu languages : a corpus analysis of nominalization patterns in Swahili / Nick Kloehn -- The acoustic vowel space of Anyi in light of the cardinal vowel system and the Dispersion Focalization Theory / Ettien Koffi -- Gender instability in Maay / Mary Paster -- Egyptian Arabic broken plurals in DATR / Lindley Winchester -- Syntax. Factive relative clauses in Pulaar / Ibrahima Ba -- Object suffixes as incorporated pronouns in Seerer / Nico Baier -- Searching high and low for focus in Ibibio / Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major and Mfon Udoinyang -- More on have and need / Claire Halpert and Michael Diercks -- Structural transfer in third language acquisition : the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English / Philothé Mwamba Kabasele -- Adjectives in Lubukusu / Aggrey Wasike -- Optional ergativity and information structure in Beria / Andrew Wolfe and Tajeldin Abdalla Adam -- Semantics and pragmatics. Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda / M. Ryan Bochnak -- Temporal remoteness and vagueness in past time reference in Luganda / M. Ryan Bochnak and Peter Klecha -- Focus marking in Kuria / Meredith Landman and Rodrigo Ranero -- A corpus study of the Swahili demonstrative position / Mohamed Mwamzandi |
| Summary |
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond. This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages |
| Analysis |
Linguistics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (OAPEN, viewed November 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics.
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Language and languages.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Languages -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Africa -- Lenguas -- Congresos.
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Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kandybowicz, Jason, editor
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Major, Travis, editor
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Torrence, Harold, editor
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Duncan, Philip T., editor
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| ISBN |
9783961100361 |
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3961100365 |
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