Language history and linguistic description in Africa / edited by Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Maddieson, Ian.

Hinnebusch, Thomas J.

Conference Name:

Annual Conference on African Linguistics (26th : 1995 : Santa Monica, Calif.)

Series:

Trends in African linguistics ; 2.

Trends in African linguistics ; 2

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

African languages--Classification.

African languages.

African languages--Phonetics.

African languages--Semantics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [1998]

Language Note:

Chiefly in English; includes one paper in French.

Summary:

For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.

This book represents a selection of the papers from the 26th ACAL, held in March 1995 under the sponsorship of UCLA. To mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Greenberg's Studies in African Linguistic Classification, the topic of African language history and classification was made a special focus of the 1995 conference.

A third of the papers relate to this theme. These papers cover historical issues concerning the three major language families found solely on the African continent. Topics in phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics and language planning are covered in the remainder of the volume.

Notes:

Selected papers of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held Mar. 23-25, 1995, in Santa Monica, Calif., sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0865436312

0865436320

OCLC:

37806247