Problems of linguistic-historical reconstruction in Africa
By: edited by Dymitr Ibriszimow
Series: Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, SUGIA -- Bd. 19. Special volume,; SURGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika -- Beiheft 19.
Publisher: Köppe
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9783896450944
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Rekonstruktion; African languages; Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Reconstruction (Linguistics); History
Notes: 6 English, 2 French contributions; foreword in German.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Vorwort; title: Les langues soudaniques centrales : essai d'évaluation / Pascal Boyeldieu & Pierre Nougayrol; title: Reconstructing the historical development of Nilotic : a testcase for cladistic and rhizotic models of genetic affinity / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal; title: The reconstruction of lexical semantics in Bantu / Axel Fleisch; title: The historical connection between the movement away marker and the associative preposition / Zygmunt Frajzyngier; title: Greenberg's "case" for Khoisan : the morphological evidence / Tom Güldemann; title: Hamito-Semitic aspect system : the case of Semitic and Berber / Victor Porkhomovsky; title: Niveaux linguistiques et problèmes de reconstruction dans les langues atlantiques / Konstantin Pozdniakov; title: How to comprehend the obvious? : linguistic variation and dialect geography : the African experience / Rainer Vossen; title: Addresses of contributors.