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Africa's endangered languages : documentary and theoretical approaches

Title: Africa's endangered languages : documentary and theoretical approaches / edited by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence.
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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x, 503 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Africa's endangered languages : an overview / Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence -- 2. The challenge of documenting Africa's least known languages / Bonny Sands -- 3. The Nata Documentation Project : an overview / Joash J. Gambarage [and 11 others] -- 4. Tongue root harmony in Nata : an allomorphy-based account / Joash J. Gambarage and Douglas Pulleyblank -- 5. Nominal and verbal tone in Nata : an allomorphy-based account / Andrei Anghelescu, Joash J. Gambarage, Zoe Wai-Man Lam, and Douglas Pulleyblank -- 6. Nata deverbal nominalizations / Rose-Marie Déchaine, Dayanqi Si, and Joash J. Gambarage -- 7. Busy intersections : a framework for revitalization / G. Tucker Childs -- 8. Documenting Ekegusii : how 'empowering' research fulfills community and academic goals / Carlos M Nash -- 9. The role of theory in documentation : intervention effects and missing gaps in the Krachi documentary record / Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence -- 10. Documenting raising and control in Moro / Peter Jenks and Sharon Rose -- 11. The linker in the Khoisan languages / Chris Collins -- 12. Theory and description : understanding the syntax of Eegimaa verb stem morphology / Mamadou Bassene and Ken Safir -- 13. On (Ir)realis in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso) / Laura McPherson -- 14. Contributions of micro-comparative research to language documentation : two Bantu case studies / Michael R. Marlo -- 15. Sebirwa in contact with Setswana : a natural experiment in learning an unnatural alternation / Elizabeth C. Zsiga and One Tlale Boyer -- 16. Three analyses of underlying plosives in Caning, a Nilo Saharan language of Sudan / Timothy M. Stirtz -- 17. Exceptions to hiatus resolution in Mushunguli (Somali Chizigula) / Katherine Hout -- 18. Acoustic and aerodynamic data on Somali Chizigula stops / Michal Temkin Martinez and Vanessa Rosenbaum -- 19. Unmasking the Bantu orthographic vowels : the challenge for language documentation and description / Joash J. Gambarage.

Call Number

Sc E 17-1175

ISBN

9780190256340
0190256346

LCCN

2016042230
40027346457

OCLC

973199352

Title

Africa's endangered languages : documentary and theoretical approaches / edited by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Kandybowicz, Jason, editor.

Torrence, Harold, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027346457

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1175

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