[PDF] Problems In The Lexicology Of African Languages eBook

Author : Herman Batibo
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598081

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The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa. It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent's rich linguistic and cultural heritage. The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.

Author : D. L. Goyvaerts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722322X

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This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology.

Author : Arnetha Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134507259

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Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at Black experiences outside a given community. This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers. In doing so, the book recognises and formalises the existence of a "Black Linguistic Perspective" highlights the contributions of Black language researchers in the field. Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the linguistic implications of colonization.

Author : Paul A. Kotey
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780865436657

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Presents the papers delivered during the Plenary Sessions at the 27th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contents cover issues relating to phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and language and society, as well as pedagogical issues that relate to the learning and teaching of African languages.

Author : Paul Newman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027265828

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Syllable weight is a crucially important concept in the fields of phonology and morphology. It impacts analyses and explanation whether theoretical, typological, or descriptive. African linguistics was critical in the original development of the concept and, as this book demonstrates, the concept is critical to our understanding of complex phenomena in African languages, including stress, tone, allomorphy, minimal word requirements, and metrics. This volume includes a broad overview of syllable weight as a phonological variable and then provides detailed case studies covering an array of African languages from various phyla spoken across the continent. This should prove to be an essential book for scholars and students in the area of general phonology and African linguistics. The editor of the book, Distinguished Professor Paul Newman, is an internationally well-known expert on African linguistics in general and the Hausa language in particular. It was he who first introduced the term ‘syllable weight’ in a seminal article published nearly a half century ago.

Author : Essien, Okon
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9785416445

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This book is a compressed version of some commissioned and inspired works of aspects of linguistics by Okon Essien, indigenous Professor of Linguistics in the south-south and south-east of Nigeria. Covered by the essays are issues concerning language endangerment, linguistic revival of vanishing tongues of Africa, language and ethnicity, language and power and language and politics.