A linguistic geography of Africa

A linguistic geography of Africa [Texte imprimé] / edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 - 1 vol. (XVIII-371 p.) : ill., cartes ; 24 cm - Cambridge approaches to language contact . - Cambridge approaches to language contact (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) .

Index

Bibliogr. p. 309-353

Is Africa a linguistic area? / Bernd Heine & Zelealem Leyew -- Africa as a phonological area / G.N. Clements & Annie Rialland -- Africa as a morphosyntactic area / Denis Creissels ... [et al.] -- The macro-Sudan belt : towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa / Tom Güldemann -- The Tanzanian Rift Valley area / Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous & Derek Nurse -- Ethiopia / Joachim Crass & Ronny Meyer -- The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa / Christa König -- Africa's verb-final languages / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

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African languages Languages in contact Linguistic geography

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