A linguistic geography of Africa
By: edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse.
Contributors: Heine, Bernd, 1939-; Nurse, Derek.
Series: Cambridge approaches to language contact
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780521876117
Subjects: African languages; Languages in contact -- Africa; Linguistic geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: Is Africa a linguistic area? / Bernd Heine & Zelealem Leyew; title: Africa as a phonological area / G.N. Clements & Annie Rialland; title: Africa as a morphosyntactic area / Denis Creissels ... [et al.]; title: The macro-Sudan belt : towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa / Tom Güldemann; title: The Tanzanian Rift Valley area / Roland Kie€ling, Maarten Mous & Derek Nurse; title: Ethiopia / Joachim Crass & Ronny Meyer; title: The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa / Christa König; title: Africa's verb-final languages / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.