Language history and linguistic description in Africa
By: edited by Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch.
Contributors: Maddieson, Ian.; Hinnebusch, Thomas J.; Conference on African Linguistics (26th : 1995 : Santa Monica, Calif.)
Series: Trends in African linguistics ;; 2
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: African languages -- Classification.; African language -- Phonetics.; African languages -- Semantics.
Description: 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: Chiefly in English; includes one paper in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.