Research Catalog

Title

Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003 / edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Oluseye Adesola.

Author

World Congress of African Linguistics (4th : 2003 : New Brunswick, N.J.)

Publication

Köln : Köppe, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Akinlabi, Akinbiyi.
• Adesola, Oluseye.

Description

575 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003

Subject

• African languages > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, with 3 contributions in French.

Contents

Cognation percentages in Benue-Congo / Ben Elugbe and Tayo Bankale -- Why describe African languages? / Larry M. Hyman -- Segments and prosodies in Chadic / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Coda deletion in the Yoruba loan phonology / Olúṣ̣èyẹ Adéṣọĺ -- Transparency and opacity in Lokaa vowel harmony / Akinbiyi Akinlabi and Alexander Iwara -- Marked tones and texture--the necessity of high tones in K̳onni / Michael Cahill -- Pitch in the realization of questions and statements in Mambila / Bruce Connell -- Phonological phrasing in Sandawe / Yoshihito Dobashi -- Constraints and complexity in subsegmental representations / Laura J. Downing -- The grammatical function of tone in Lokạạ / Alexander Iwara -- Negation in Southwestern Edoid : the case of Urhobo / Rose O. Aziza -- Pronominal object marking in Bantu / Christa Beaudoin-Lietz, Derek Nurse, and Sarah Rose -- Distributed predicative syntax in Doyayo / Stefan Elders -- Point of view of the subject as a grammatical category / Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Mohammed Munkaila -- Predicate clefts, derivations, and universal grammar / Jason Kandybowicz -- "The giraffes burst throw emerge climb pass through the roof of the hut" : verbal serialisation in the West Ring languages (Isu, Weh, Aghem) / Roland Kiebling -- The cardinal numerals of Nilo-Saharan languages / Zelealem Leyew -- Prefixing reduplication in Lusaamia / Michael R. Marlo -- "Haya, basi." "Okay, so." Markers of management and interaction in Swahili conversation / Philip W. Rudd -- Locative arguments in Bantu / Josephat M. Rugemalira -- On person as a model for logophoricity / Ken Safir -- Emai contact constructions / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare -- The relevance of verbal morphology in Toposa discourse / Helga Schröder -- Traces of a secret language--circumrfixes in Hone (Jukun) plurals / Anne Storch -- Locative predication in Tigrinya / Weldu Michael Weldeyesus -- Probabilistically speaking : a quantitative exploration of Yorùbá surrogacy / Túndé Adégbọlá -- A corpus-based investigation of the Zulu nominal suffix -kazi / Rachélle Gauton, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, and Linkie Mohlala -- Automatic word-sense disambiguation--Kiswahili nouns / Wanjiku Ng'ang'a -- The vocabulary of pottery fashioning techniques in Great Lakes Bantu / Koen Bostoen -- Reconstruction of initial velar and labial-velar consonants at the Pre-Lower Cross-Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid stage of Benue-Congo / Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche -- Evolution morphologique et syntaxique du parler des jeunes "kotoko" de Goulfey (Cameroun) / Henry Tourneux -- Implosives in Mande-Atlantic-Congo / Kay Williamson -- Bantu gender revisited through an analysis of Basaá categories / Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum -- The role of external setting in language shift process : the case of the Nama-speaking Ovaherero in Tshabong / Herman M. Batibo -- The best is not good enough : scouring a previously documented language for more [Bilin] / Paul D. Fallon -- Le sheng : expansion et vernacularisation d'une variété urbaine hybride ̳a Nairobi / Aurélia Ferrari -- The status and use of African languages versus Arabic in Sudan / Helene Fatima Idris -- Developing a language in a complex situation : prospects and challenges of Tanzanian Sign Language / H.R.T. Muzale -- The endangered status of marginalized languages : Sosan and Uku̳e as case study / F.O. Oyebade and T.O. Agoyi -- Language endangerment in Nigeria : perspectives with the Akpes cluster of Akoko languages / Solomon Oluwole Oyetade -- Contact de langues au Brésil / Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter -- Language marginalisation : the Lower Cross experience / Eno-Abasi E. Urua.

Call Number

Sc E 05-614

ISBN

3896453386

OCLC

60613283

Conference

World Congress of African Linguistics (4th : 2003 : New Brunswick, N.J.)

Title

Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003 / edited by Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Oluseye Adesola.

Imprint

Köln : Köppe, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In English, with 3 contributions in French.

Added Author

Akinlabi, Akinbiyi.

Adesola, Oluseye.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-614