When languages meet
Subtitle: language contact and change in West Africa
By: edited by Norbert Cyffer & Georg Ziegelmeyer
Series: Topics in African studies -- v. 13; Topics in African studies -- v. 13.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9783896452573
Subjects: Congresses; Linguistic change; Taalcontact; Languages in contact
Notes: "The contributions published in this volume were first presented and discussed at the project workshop 'Language Contact and Change in West Africa-- The Question of Areality and Genealogy' in Gumpoldskirchen, November 11-14, 2004"--P. 5.

Research report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Seven contributions in English and 1 in French.
Table of contents: title: Cause and reason in Kanuri : the impact of areality on linguistic change  -- Norbert Cyffer -- (p. 7-23).; title: Reduction of dialectal features in Kanuri as outcome of language contact  -- Doris Loehr -- (p. 23-42).; title: Quelques aspects des interférences kanuri-buduma  -- Ari Awagana -- (p. 43-64).; title: The Hausa particle koo : a widely spread formative in northern Nigeria  -- Georg Ziegelmeyer -- (p. 65-90).; title: Areal features in South Mande and Kru languages  -- Valentin Vydrine -- (p. 91-116).; title: The dynamics of Yoruba-ENglish contact in Nigeria  -- Bamidele Badejo -- (p. 117-122).; title: Hausa loanwords in Adamawa Fulfulde : a question of prestige or sociolinguistic necessity  -- Abubakar Girei -- (p. 133-149).; title: Arabic loans in West African languages : a semantic shift -- Sergio Baldi-- (p. 149-158).