Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in Africa

by Christopher Ehret

Christopher Validating the Nilo-Saharan Phonological Reconstruction – The Testimony of Loanword Seriation. Zygmunt Borrowed Grammaticalization and Grammaticalization on a Borrowing. Tom Gü Person–Gender–Number Marking from Proto-Khoe–Kwadi to Its Descendants – A Rejoinder with Particular Reference to Language Contact. Roland Kieß The Non-Genetic Origin of the Mungaka Language of Bali – Searching for a Superstrate. Christa Passive in Khoe (Central Khoisan) – A Case of Contact-Induced Grammaticalization? Maarten Sub-Saharan Influence on Tuareg Morphology – Case of Full Reduplication. Tania Kuteva / Petra In der European Borders – Political and Linguistic. Wilhelm J.G. Mö The Semantic Structure of the Riparian Landscape Terminology of Rumanyo in an Etymological Perspective. Salikoko S. Grammaticization in the Development of Creoles. Ongaye Oda Orkaydo / Mauro Morphological Similarity and Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest Ethiopia). Gabriele How to Say ‘No’ in Shiyeyi – Negation, Language Change and Contact-Induced Phenomena in a South-Western Bantu Language. Zelealem Subordinate Clauses in Awŋi.

243 pages, perfect

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

A scholar of African history and African historical linguistics specializing in efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record, Christopher Ehret was Distinguished Research Professor in History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 2011.