Recently added articles from Studies in African Linguistics:
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Apr 01, 2007; ... Abu-Maganga, Al-Amin, Leoma Gilley & Anne Storch (eds.) Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture. Proceedings of the 9th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium). (Nilo-Saharan Linguistic Analyses and Documentation, volume 23). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2006. Pp. 420, 11 ...
UPCOMING MEETINGS ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES / LINGUISTICS
Apr 01, 2007; ... 2008 January 21-22 ACQUISITION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES 2008. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Conference web page: http://academic.sun.ac.za/iccling. March 14-16 36TH MEETING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS. Chicago, ...
Carl Friedrich Hoffmann (1925-2007)
Apr 01, 2007; ... Carl Hoffmann was a leading German Chadicist and Africanist, who was influential in the foundations of the Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages of the University of Ibadan between 1962 and 1978, and who was instrumental in establishing African Linguistics at the University of ...
John Massie Stewart (1926-2006)
Apr 01, 2007; ... Born in Lossiemouth, Scotland, in 1926, John Stewart joined the army near the end of World War II, and in August 1945 was sent to serve in both Indonesia and Palestine, where he showed his flair for languages. In 1947 he began his degree course in French at Edinburgh University, which entailed a ...
Anthony Traill (1938-2007)
Apr 01, 2007; ... Sadly I report the death of Anthony Traill, noted phonetician and general expert on Khoisan and other languages of southern Africa. Tony's most important scholarly contributions were in phonetics, especially his extensive work on clicks, e.g., Traill 1994a, but he also published on other ...
GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN IKALANGA*
Oct 01, 2006; ... Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe. This paper examines the core grammatical ...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Oct 01, 2006; ... Khidir, Zakaria Fadoul. Bases et radicaux verbaux. Déverbatifs et déverbaux du beria (langue saharienne). (Nilo-Saharan Linguistic Analyses and Documentation, volume 20). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. 183, 2 maps, numerous tables. ISBN 978-3-89645-138-5. Paperback ....
UPCOMING MEETINGS ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES / LINGUISTICS
Oct 01, 2006; ... 2007 September 24, 2007 WORKSHOP ON THE TYPOLOGY OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology. Paris. Abstract deadline January 15, 2007. Contact Guillaume Segerer, Workshop on African Languages; LLACAN - ...
Archaeology, Language, and the African Past
Apr 01, 2006; ... Blench, Roger. Archaeology, Language, and the African Past. (African Archaeology Series, vol. 10. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 2006. Pp. xxv, 361. ISBN 0-7591-0446-2. Paperback. $44.95. This book comprehensively surveys the history of African language families, integrating linguistics, ...
Recherches sur le vocabulaire du tissage en Afrique du Nord
Apr 01, 2006; ... Bynon, James. Recherches sur le vocabulaire du tissage en Afrique du Nord. (Berber Studies, vol. 11). Cologne: Rudiger Köppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. xii, 233, 6 drawings. ISBN 3-89645-390-4. Paperback. euro34.80. Professor Bynon's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation from the Ecole ...
A Concise Grammar of Ju|'hoan. With a Ju|'hoan-English Glossary and a Subject Index
Apr 01, 2006; ... Dickens, Patrick J. A Concise Grammar of Ju|'hoan. With a Ju|'hoan-English Glossary and a Subject Index. (Research in Khoisan Studies, vol. 17). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Pp. 114, 2 tables. ISBN 3-89645-145-6. Paperback. euro16.80. The previously unpublished manuscript of a teaching ...
Berber Loanwords in Hausa
Apr 01, 2006; ... Kossmann, Maarten. Berber Loanwords in Hausa. (Berber Studies vol. 12). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. x, 228. ISBN 3-89645-391-2. Paperback. euro34.80. This volume expands the line of research established by the Hausa scholar Claude Gouffe on linguistic contacts between Tuareg ...
Le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental. Essai d'application de la méthode historique comparative
Apr 01, 2006; ... Sambiéni, Coffi. Le Proto-Oti-Volta-Oriental, Essai d'application de la méthode historique comparative. (Gur Monographs vol. 6). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2005. Pp. xviii, 316. ISBN 3-89645-116-2. Paperback. euro39.80 The historical development of the Eastern Oti-Volta languages of ...
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
Apr 01, 2006; ... Voeltz, F. K. (editor) Studies in African Linguistic Typology. (Typological Studies in Language 64). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. 2005. Pp. 426. ISBN 90-272-2975-9. Hardcover. $174.00 This book comprises 21 selected papers presented at the International ...
UPCOMING MEETINGS ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES / LINGUISTICS
Apr 01, 2006; ... 2007 March 16-18 35TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LINGUISTICS. San Antonio, Texas. Abstract deadline: December 1, 2006. Abstract length 200-300 words as PDF file or Word document or printed page. See the NACAL webpage for further information: ...
Igikuria Phonology and Morphology: A Bantu Language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania
Oct 01, 2005; ... Cammenga, Jelle. Igikuria Phonology and Morphology: A Bantu Language of South-West Kenya and North-West Tanzania. (East African Languages and Dialects, vol. 15). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. 2004. Pp. 351. ISBN 3-89645-029-6. Paperback. euro64.00. The author's 1994 dissertation on ...
A DIACHRONIC ONOMASIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EARLY BANTU OIL PALM VOCABULARY*
Oct 01, 2005; ... Despite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Scholars have identified four common noun stems for 'oil palm', i.e. *-bídà (cl. 5/6, ...
Das K'abeena. Deskriptive Grammatik einer Hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache
Oct 01, 2005; ... Crass, Joachim. Das K'abeena. Deskriptive Grammatik einer Hochlandostkuschilischen Sprache. (Cushitic Language Studies, vol. 23). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Pp. viii, 383. 1 map, 52 tables, 1 illustration. ISBN 3-89645-480-3. Paperback. euro60.00. The Highland East Cushitic language ...
Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description
Oct 01, 2005; ... Please also note the following online publication, Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description, Volume 43, 4: 2006, edited by Laura J ....
Sprache und Wissen in Africa. Beiträge zum 15. Afrikanistentag, Frankfurt am Main und Mainz, 30. September - 2. Oktober 2002
Oct 01, 2005; ... Kastenholz, Raimund & Anne Storch (eds.). Sprache und Wissen in Africa. Beiträge zum 15. Afrikanistentag, Frankfurt am Main und Mainz, ...