Recently added articles from Studies in African Linguistics:
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... 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; Anonymous ... 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; Wolff, H Ekkehard ... 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; Wilson, André ... 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; Childs, G Tucker ... 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 ...