Selected proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Subtitle: linguistic theory and African language documentation
By: edited by Masangu Matondo, Fiona McLaughlin, and Eric Potsdam
Contributors: Matondo, Masangu; Mc Laughlin, Fiona; Potsdam, Eric, 1964-
Publisher: Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Somerville, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781574734294
Subjects: African languages; Congresses; Linguistics
Other titles: Linguistic theory and African language documentation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Phonology.; title: Optimality theory and African language phonology  -- Laura J. Downing; title: K[non-roman character]nni vowel feature spread across consonants  -- Michael Cahill; title: H tone, depressors and downstep in Tsonga  -- Seunghun J. Lee; title: Vowel processes in Nguni : resolving the problem of unacceptable VV sequences  -- Galen Sibanda; title: Morphology.; title: Prosodic morphology in Dagaare  -- Arto Anttila and Adams Bodomo; title: Inflectional vs. derivational morphology in Tagdal : a mixed language  -- Carlos M. Benítez-Torres; title: On the identification of noun class and gender systems in Chakali  -- Jonathan Allen Brindle; title: Does Logba have an adjective class?  -- Kofi Dorvlo; title: Moro noun class morphology  -- George Gibbard, Hannah Rohde, and Sharon Rose; title: The morphology of adverbial clauses in Sheko  -- Anne-Christie Hellenthal; title: Defining the word in Kol  -- Bonnie J. Henson; title: Suffix ordering in Temne : a case for morphotactics  -- Sullay Mohamed Kanu; title: Maa (Maasai) nominalization : animacy, agentivity and instrument  -- Doris L. Payne and Derek Olsen; title: Syntax and pragmatics.; title: Evaluating the immediate postverbal position as a focus position in Zulu  -- Leston Buell; title: Anti-agreement and (person) in Bantu  -- Brent Henderson; title: How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?  -- Anne Schwarz; title: Language description, endangerment, and documentation.; title: Language documentation as a strategy for the empowerment of the minority languages of Africa  -- Herman M. Batibo; title: Notes on Lower Jubba Maay  -- Jade Comfort and Mary Paster; title: Plant names in the Tanzanian Bantu language Vidunda : structure and (some) etymology  -- Karsten Legère; title: The situation of Ndengeleko : a coastal Tanzanian language -- Eva-Marie Ström.