Language contact, language change and history based on language sources in Africa
By: edited by Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Frank Seidel, Marc Seifert
Series: Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, SUGIA -- Bd. 20. Special volume,; SURGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika -- Beiheft 20.
Publisher: Köppe
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9783896450937
Subjects: African languages; Congresses; Linguistic change; Languages in contact; History
Notes: "This volume is the result of an international workshop that was held at Koenigswinter near Bonn in March 28-30, 2007"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Language contact, language change and history based on language sources in Africa / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Frank Seidel, Marc Seifert; title: Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of southern Africa and how can this be detected? / Roger Blench; title: Semantic vagueness and cross-linguistic lexical fragmentation in Bantu : impeding factors for linguistic palaeontology / Koen Bostoen; title: Writing, oral traditions and the construction of ethnic identities / Inge Brinkman; title: Esterogeny and localist strategies in a Nuba mountain community / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal; title: Language history in SE Angola : the Ngangela-Nyemba dialect cluster / Axel Fleisch; title: Crossing the linguistic divide between Namibian Khoekhoe and Kalahari Khoe : possible directions for future research / Wilfrid H.G. Haacke; title: A sketch of pre-colonial metalworking in northern Namibia and southern Angola / Eileen Kose; title: Historiography on the basis of contemporary linguistic data : the Herero case / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig; title: Language contact, areality, and history : the Songhay question revisited / Robert Nicolaï; title: Social networks, linguistic variation and micro change in an African context : a case study in the borderland of Mali and Burkina Faso / Henning Schreiber; title: Layered language genesis in the "catch basin" of the Linyanti and Okavango swamps : the case of Yeyi / Frank Seidel; title: Folktales as a source for historical traces : the reintroduction of iron working along the central Kavango / Marc Seifert; title: Cultured contact : ritualisation and semantics in Jukun / Anne Storch; title: General bibliography; title: Index of languages and subjects; title: Addresses of contributors.