Fading delimitations
Subtitle: multilingual settlements in a convergence area : case studies from Nigeria
By: edited by Anne Storch, Johannes Harnischfeger and Rudolf Leger
Series: Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- v. 34; Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- v. 34.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783896459046
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics; Congresses; Multilingualism; Language and culture
Description: "This book focuses on languages and cultures of one of the world's linguistically most diverse regions, north-eastern Nigeria, and aims at providing new explanations for this outstanding diversity. It explores languages in a context of pervasive multilingualism, explaining their histories and sociocultural backgrounds as super-diverse and constantly changing ones. This is achieved by developing a model which provides new explanations and insights for the linguistic region treated in this book--the convergence zone between the Gongola and Benue valleys of northeastern Nigeria."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Papers presented at a three-day international workshop held at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, summer 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lower rank greets first : getting along in multilingual communities  -- Johannes Harnischfeger, Rudolf Leger and Anne Storch; title: Who are the Waja and where did they come from? A linguistic evaluation of 'Labarin Waja', the unpublished history of Waja by Kwoiranga, the 2nd Sarkin Waja (1927-1936)  -- Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer; title: Kanuri as a language of wider communication : expansion and retreat  -- Norbert Cyffer; title: Bade between its eastern and western neighbours, past and present : contact scenarios in northern Yobe State  -- Georg Ziegelmeyer; title: Noun formation strategies in Maaka (Western Chadic, Nigeria)  -- Jules Jacques Coly; title: Don't get me wrong here, but I think I may have seen this : knowledge, concealment and perception in Maaka  -- Anne Storch; title: The historical position of Tangale within Chadic  -- Herrmann Jungraithmayr; title: Remodeling themselves--language shift, Islamisation and ethnic conversion among the Maaka  -- Johannes Harnischfeger; title: Kupto and Kwami--on the relation between language, culture and ethnicity among the Southern Bole-Tangale group  -- Jörg Adelberger; title: Some observations on typological features in languages of the Bole-Tangale group -- Rudolf Leger.