Hieda / König / Nakagawa Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas

With special reference to Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-7395-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of social, cultural, and linguistic interaction that characterizes Africa's linguistic geography. Most contributors to the volume discuss language contact and areal diffusion in Africa, although some demonstrate, with examples from non-African linguistic data, including Amazonian and European languages, how language contact may lead to structural convergence. Others investigate contact phenomena in social-cultural behavior. The volume makes a large contribution toward bringing generalized theory to data-oriented discussions. It is intended to stimulate further research on contact phenomena in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hieda, Osamu

König, Christa

Nakagawa, Hirosi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Message from the President
Ikuo Kameyama

Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education
Makoto Minegishi

Introduction
Christa König

Section 1

Areal Features and Linguistic Areas: Contact-induced Change and Geographical Typology
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Areas of Grammaticalization and Geographical Typology
Bernd Heine

Case Marking and Linguistic Geography
Christa König

Can Ethiopian Languages be Considered Languages in the African Linguistic Area? The Case of Highland East Cushitic, particularly Sidaama and Kambaata
Kazuhiro Kawachi

Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction
Tom Güldemann

Section 2

Explaining Convergence and the Formation of Linguistic Areas
Yaron Matras

Is Kumam a Creole Language? A Mechanism of Linguistic Convergence in the Southern Lwo Area
Osamu Hieda

The Continuum of Languages in West Tanzania Bantu: A Case Study of Gongwe, Bende, and Pimbwe
Yuko Abe

Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in the Khoe-speaking Area of Southern Africa
Rainer Vossen

Tense and Aspect in Khoesan: The case of Ju/'hoansi
Budzani Gabanamotse-Mogara

Section 3

Ritual Pathways: Contact in a Framework of Difference, Imitation and Alterity
Anne Storch

The Eastern Kalahari Khoe: A Focus on Inter-Khoisan Ethno-language Dynamics around the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana
Andy Chebanne

Language Contact and Social Change in North-central Namibia: Socialization via Singing and Dancing Activities among the !Xun San
Akira Takada

Two Types of Kinship Classifi cation Found among the Khoe Languages — Relative and Absolute Calculations in Determining the Seniority among Classifi catory Siblings
Hitomi Ono

A First Report on G|ui Ideophones
Hirosi Nakagawa

Section 4

Noun-Modifi er Order in Africa
Matthew S. Dryer

Index of Authors

Index of Languages, Language Families and Areas

Index of Subjects

Contributors