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Loanwords in the World's Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1104

Loanwords in the World's Languages

"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.

African Studies Centres Around the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

African Studies Centres Around the World

The book “African Studies Centres Around the World – A Network-Based Inventory” compiles a selection of contributions by the directors of eleven African Studies centres from four continents. They comprise Africa’s oldest centre on the continent, at the University of Cape Town, the European centres in Bordeaux, Lisbon and Hradec Králové and the two North American Universities of Florida and Indiana. Central and South America’s contributions to African Studies is represented by the centres in San José, Costa Rica, Santiago de Cuba and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. The Asian centres are located at Jawaharlal University in Mumbai, India, and at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in S...

A Grammar of Dazaga
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

A Grammar of Dazaga

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-29
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In A Grammar of Dazaga, Josiah Walters provides a detailed description of Dazaga, a Saharan language. Based on recent data, the author describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Dazaga, relating his findings to related languages and recent typological studies.

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 542

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-19
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  • Publisher: Langaa RPCIG

This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This collection of papers comprises almost all major areas of interest of Werner Vycichl: Egyptology and Coptology, Semitic linguistics, Beja (Northern Cushitic), Chadic, and general Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics.

2020 The 100 Counties that will Decide the Election
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

2020 The 100 Counties that will Decide the Election

· In 2016, TRUMP flipped 206 Counties that OBAMA won twice. · In 2018, Democrats flipped 31 House seats in Trump won districts. · In 2020, the upcoming election will shape the country for decades. Who will win…? Applying a comprehensive Data Analytics approach to the most impactful election in generations, there are just 100 counties – from our nation’s 3,142 counties – that will decide the election and define the world. That’s right. Define the world. If Trump wins: More conservative federal judges, more impactful trade deals, more immigration issues addressed, more America-first policies, less regulation, etc. If DEM wins: More liberal judges, more climate change policies, mor...

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies in Memoriam Werner Vycichl
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 585

Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies in Memoriam Werner Vycichl

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-03
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is paying homage to the memory of Werner Vycichl (1909-1999), one of the most outstanding figures of Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics. The contributions by well-known specialists comprise almost all principle branches of the Semito-Hamitic macrofamily. The volume is divided in five major sections following the areas of interest of W. Vycichl: Egyptology and Coptology, Semitic linguistics, Beja (Northern Cushitic), Chadic, and general Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) comparative linguistics (Berber has been excluded, since we already have a separate Mémorial Werner Vycichl with articles only in Berberology). The volume is important for the researchers in all the linguistic fields enumerated above as well as for those interested in African or comparative linguistics in general.

Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 479

Lexical Reconstruction in Central Chadic

Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.

Number Categories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Number Categories

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and Wagi (Beria, Saharan). For each language, the focus lies on a different aspect of number marking: In the Wagi dialect of Beria, different tonal patterns are discovered. The extinct Kamas language is analysed in terms of language contact with Russian. Number categories can also serve as a measure of loanword integration, as the study about spoken Welsh shows. The combination of articles in this volume illustrates the potential of number marking and offers insights that contribute our understanding of how grammatical number is applied and categorised in languages.

A History of Borno
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

A History of Borno

Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.