Research Catalog

Title

Fading delimitations : multilingual settlements in a convergence area : case studies from Nigeria / edited by Anne Storch, Johannes Harnischfeger and Rudolf Leger.

Publication

Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Storch, Anne
• Harnischfeger, Johannes
• Leger, Rudolf

Description

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"This book focuses on languages and cultures of one of the world's linguistically most diverse regions, north-eastern Nigeria, and aims at providing new explanations for this outstanding diversity. It explores languages in a context of pervasive multilingualism, explaining their histories and sociocultural backgrounds as super-diverse and constantly changing ones. This is achieved by developing a model which provides new explanations and insights for the linguistic region treated in this book--the convergence zone between the Gongola and Benue valleys of northeastern Nigeria."--Page [4] of cover.

Series Statement

Topics in interdisciplinary African studies ; Volume 34

Uniform Title

Topics in interdisciplinary African studies ; v. 34.

Alternative Title

Multilingual settlements in a convergence area : case studies from Nigeria

Subject

• Multilingualism > Nigeria > Congresses
• Cultural pluralism > Nigeria > Congresses
• Anthropological linguistics > Nigeria, Northern > Congresses
• Multilingualism > Nigeria, Northern > Congresses
• Language and culture > Nigeria, Northern > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of an international workshop held at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lower rank greets first : getting along in multilingual communities / Johannes Harnischfeger, Rudolf Leger and Anne Storch -- Who are the Waja and where did they come from? A linguistic evaluation of 'Labarin Waja', the unpublished history of Waja by Kwoiranga, the 2nd Sarkin Waja (1927-1936) / Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer -- Kanuri as a language of wider communication : expansion and retreat / Norbert Cyffer -- Bade between its eastern and western neighbours, past and present : contact scenarios in northern Yobe State / Georg Ziegelmeyer -- Noun formation strategies in Maaka (Western Chadic, Nigeria) / Jules Jacques Coly -- Don't get me wrong here, but I think I may have seen this : knowledge, concealment and perception in Maaka / Anne Storch -- The historical position of Tangale within Chadic / Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- Remodeling themselves -- language shift, Islamisation and ethnic conversion among the Maaka / Johannes Harnischfeger -- Kupto and Kwami -- on the relation between language, culture and ethnicity among the Southern Bole-Tangale group / Jörg Adelberger -- Some observations on typological features in languages of the Bole-Tangale group / Rudolf Leger.

ISBN

9783896459046 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 889706193
• SCSB-10988790

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library