The Cangin Languages

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52002-8
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods. This is one of few in-depth historical treatments of a West African language family, and takes into account all existing sources, including previously unpublished data from my own work on Noon. The reconstruction of Proto-Cangin reveals a number of important features now obscured in the modern languages, including a surprisingly rich inventory of noun class prefixes, which are of great importance to the study of the world’s largest language family, Niger-Congo. Included is a catalogue of over 600 Proto-Cangin reconstructions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merrill, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Symbols and Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 The Cangin Languages

1.2 Sources

1.3 Comparison with Drolc (2005)

2 Phonology

2.1 Consonants

2.2 Vowels

2.3 Phonotactics and Borrowing

2.4 Summary of Sound Changes

3 Nominal Morphology

3.1 Noun Class Morphology

3.2 Determiners

3.3 Numerals

3.4 Derivational Suffixes

3.5 Summary

4 Verbal Morphology

4.1 Pronouns

4.2 Inflectional Morphology

4.3 Derivational Suffixes

4.4 Summary

5 Cangin in an Areal and Niger-Congo Context

5.1 Phonology

5.2 Noun Class

5.3 Verbal Derivational Suffixes

5.4 The Place of Cangin within Niger-Congo

5.5 Conclusion

Appendix 1: Proto-Cangin Lexical Reconstructions

Appendix 2: Outside Cognates

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John T.M. Merrill received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2018, and has published on multiple Senegalese languages. He is currently a lecturer in the Princeton University Program in Linguistics.