LINGUIST List 22.651 Tue Feb 08 2011 Books: Historical Linguistics/Socioling: Heine, Nurse (Eds) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Heine, Nurse (Eds) Message 1: A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Heine, Nurse (Eds) Date: 05-Feb-2011 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: A Linguistic Geography of Africa: Heine, Nurse (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: A Linguistic Geography of Africa Published: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Editor: Bernd Heine Editor: Derek Nurse Paperback: ISBN: 9780521182690 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 28.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521182690 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 45.00 Abstract: More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between these languages, has never been the subject of major research. This 2007 book shows that such similarities across African languages are more common than is widely believed. It provides a broad perspective on Africa as a linguistic area, as well as an analysis of specific linguistic regions. In order to have a better understanding of African languages, their structures, and their history, more information on these contact-induced relationships is essential to understanding Africa's linguistic geography, and to reconstructing its history and prehistory. 1. Introduction. Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse; 2. Is Africa a linguistic area? Bernd Heine and Zelealem Leyew; 3. Africa as a phonological area. Nick Clements and Annie Rialland; 4. Africa as a morphosyntactic area. Denis Creissels, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Christa König; 5. The Macro-Sudan belt. Tom Güldemann; 6. The Tanzanian Rift Valley area. Roland Kießling, Maarten Mous and Derek Nurse; 7. Ethiopia. Joachim Crass and Ronny Meyer; 8. The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa. Christa König; 9. Africa's verb-final languages. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52947 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ University of Nebraska Press Page Updated: 08-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.