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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367572003321

Autore

Lotven Samson

Titolo

African linguistics across the disciplines : selected papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics / / edited by Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, Robert Botne, Samuel Gyasi Obeng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Language Science Press, 2019

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

3-96110-212-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 343 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary African linguistics, , 2511-7726 ; ; 5

Soggetti

African languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0)" --title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"In 2016, Indiana University hosted the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics with the theme African linguistics across the disciplines. Proceedings of that meeting are published in this volume. The papers presented in this volume reflect the diversity of opportunities for language study in Africa. This collection of descriptive and theoretical work is the fruit of data gathering both in-country and abroad by researchers of languages spoken across the continent, from Sereer-Siin in the west to Somali in the northeast to Ikalanga in the south. The range of topics in this volume is also broad, representative of the varied field work in country and abroad that inspires research in African linguistics. This collection of papers spans the disciplines of phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology (both morphophonological and morphosyntactic), syntax, semantics, and language policy. The data and analyses presented in this volume offer a cross-disciplinary view of linguistic topics from the many under-resourced languages of Africa."--Back cover.