Beyond 'Khoisan' : historical relations in the Kalahari basin / / edited by Tom Güldemann, Anne-Maria Fehn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465438803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-6992-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; Volume 330
• Disciplina: 496/.1
• Soggetti: Khoisan languages; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BEYOND 'KHOISAN'; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Foreword and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 'Khoisan' linguistic classification today; 1. Terminology and language inventory; 2. Research up to Greenberg (1963); 3. Modern linguistic research ; 4. Concluding remarks; Appendix; Part I. Cross-areal perspectives; Molecular anthropological perspectives on the Kalahari Basin Area; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries: An introduction to basic molecular anthropological concepts; 3. Areal convergence or genealogical relationship?; 4. East African origin of Khoe-Kwadi?Khoisan sibling terminologies in historical perspective: A combined anthropological, linguistic and ; 1. Introduction; 2. Systems of sibling classification; 3. Lexical reconstruction of sibling terminology; 4. Phylogenetic comparative analyses; 5. Historical trajectories in Khoisan sibling terminologies; 6. General conclusions; Clicks, prosodies and Khoisan; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Kx'a and Tuu; 3. Proto-Khoe; 4. Eastern African click languages; 5. Summary; Part II. The Khoe-Kwadi family; Verb serialisation in northern dialects of Khoekhoegowab: Convergence or divergence?1. Introduction; 2. Verb serialisation; 3. Conclusion; Areal ; and inherited aspects of compound verbs in Khoekhoe; 1. Introduction; 2. Compound verbs in Khoekhoe from a language contact perspective; 3. Geographical and temporal aspects of the Tuu-Khoekhoe contact; 4. Compounding in Khoe; 5. Further uses of the juncture in Kalahari Khoe; 6. A similar pattern in Khoekhoe: Nama-Damara; 7. Evaluation; Part III. The Kx'a family; Demonstrative and relative constructions in Ju: A diachronic account; 1. Introduction; 2. Demonstratives and relative clauses in Ju 3. A historical account of demonstrative and relative constructions in modern Ju; N!aqriaxe (Amkoe) spatial terms from a genealogical and areal perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background; 3. Spatial terms in N!aqriaxe; 4. Spatial terms in historical perspective; 5. Discussion; Appendix; C 2;'Amkoe body part terminology in comparative perspective; 1. 'Amkoe linguistic environment ; 2. 'Amkoe in comparative perspective; 3. Conclusion; Appendix; Part IV. The Tuu family; The Lower Nossob varieties of Tuu: !Ui, Taa or neither?; 1. Introduction 2. Shared morphosyntactic features between Taa and Lower Nossob; 3. Conclusions; Towards a genealogical classification of Taa dialects; 1. Introduction; 2. West !Xoon vs. East Taa; 3. !Ama vs. Eastern East Taa; 4. East !Xoon vs. Southeastern East Taa; 5. Tshaasi vs. Huan; 6. Conclusions; Appendix; Master list of references; Language (group) index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper briefly summarises the current state of research on the classification of Taa. It suggests a genealogical (historical) classification based on the evidence of grammatical and phonological features in the data from 20 varieties. The split between West !Xoon of Namibia and the remaining varieties is argued to be historically deeper than the division between western dialects and eastern dialects identified by Traill (1974b, 1985). The resulting tree suggests a scenario whereby Taa would have spread from west to east.