Publisher: LLACAN
http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr

Journal Title: Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA)
Volume Number: 8
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 04/14/2023

Subtitle: The noncausal/causal alternation in African languages

Main Text:

The journal Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA) has just published issue 8(2) / 2022:

[Special issue] « The noncausal/causal alternation in African languages », guest-edited by Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo & Malin Petzell (https://journals.openedition.org/lla/2206):

ARTICLES

1. Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo & Malin Petzell: The noncausal/causal alternation in African languages: An introduction
2. Denis Creissels: The noncausal/causal alternation and the limits of ambitransitivity in a sample of sub-Saharan languages
3. Ronny Meyer: The noncausal/causal alternation in Muher (Ethiosemitic)
4. Yvonne Treis: Verbal derivation in Kambaata (Cushitic), with a focus on the encoding of noncausal/causal alternations
5. Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Stéphane Robert & Sylvie Voisin: The noncausal/causal alternation and genealogical affiliation: Quantitative testing in three Niger-Congo language families
6. Gertrud Schneider-Blum: On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)
7. Nobuko Yoneda: The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili
8. Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo & Malin Petzell: Variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
9. Antti Laine, Rasmus Bernander & Lotta Aunio: The noncausal/causal alternation in the Western Serengeti languages

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Shigeki Kaji: Saudah Namyalo, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Amos Atuhairwe, Zarina Molochieva, Ruth Mukama & Margaret Zellers, A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala
2. Modeste Simbikangwa: Mathias Brack & Marie-Goretti Musoni, Wörterbuch Kinyarwanda-Deutsch. Mit Einführung in Sprache und Grammatik

All articles are freely available in html and pdf on OpenEdition: https://journals.openedition.org/lla/2206

LLA provides a forum for linguists working on the phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and semantics of African languages. The main purpose of LLA is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of the enormous linguistic diversity in Africa, much of which is still sparsely documented. Contributions to LLA are expected to be data-driven (e.g. primary data from fieldwork or other corpus data), and the discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and remains accessible to persons that are not specialists in the relevant theory. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome. We are also interested in historical-comparative, areal linguistic and ethnolinguistic contributions.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Typology

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic
Niger-Congo
Nilo-Saharan