Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-3-98554-036-5
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 969 g

Reihe: Contemporary African linguistics

Descriptive and Theoretical Approaches to African Linguistics contains a selection of revised and peer-reviewed papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Michigan State University in 2018. The contributions from both students and more senior scholars, based in North America, Africa and other parts of the world, provide a glimpse of the breadth and quality of current research in African linguistics from both descriptive and theoretical perspectives. Fields of interest range from phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics to sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, language documentation, computational linguistics and beyond. The articles reflect both the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa and the wide range of research areas covered by presenters at ACAL conferences.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sibanda, Galen

Ngonyani, Deo

Choti, Jonathan

Biersteker, Ann

Ngonyani, Deogratias Stan

Über Autor(innen)

Ngonyani, Deo
Deo Ngonyani is Associate Professor of Linguistics and African Languages at Michigan State University. His research is language description and documentation of East African languages, the morphosyntax of Bantu languages, and Swahili studies. His focus in theoretical studies is on the role of syntactic principles and process in word building processes. He has investigated Bantu verb derivations, such as, applicative, causative, statives, and reversive. Currently, he is studying metaphors in riddles and proverbs.

Sibanda, Galen
Galen Sibanda is an Assistant Professor of African Languages and Coordinator of the African Languages Program in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the phonology, morphology and semantics of African languages. Much of his work draws on data from Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa, particularly the Nguni sub-group (isiNdebele, isiZulu, isiXhosa & siSwati). His current research is on the semantics of reciprocals, mainly investigating the nature and linguistic implications of reciprocity between various types of reciprocal sets.

Choti, Jonathan
Jonathan Choti is Assistant Professor of African languages and cultures in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the phonology, morphology, and morphophonology of Bantu languages, in particular phonological alternations triggered by affixation and other processes of word-formation. He is interested in theoretical and typological issues related to nasalization, place and laryngeal contrasts of segments and alternations, allomorphy, and affix ordering. His current and future research projects focus on fieldwork, data collection, and documentation of the Kiribe dialect of the Mijikenda group of the Bantu languages of coastal Kenya.

Biersteker, Ann
Ann Biersteker retired as Associate Director of the Michigan State University African Studies Center in 2018. She previously taught African languages, literature, and linguistics at three other universities. She is the author of two books on Swahili poetry and an intermediate level Swahili textbook. She translated Gakaara wa Wanjau's Gikuyu novel Hingo ya Paawa/The Time of Power and most recently she worked on studies of the endangered language Daiso.