Linguistic research in the Horn of Africa: Djibouti

Journal of Linguistics, 2009

2007

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 his...

2006

The production of this book has been generously sponsored by the Stichting Bibliographie Linguistique, Leiden. This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY-NC-ND License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Cover illustration: the name of the Constitutional Court building (Johannesburg) written in eleven official languages of South Africa.

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Studies in African Linguistics, 2013

2013

Language, 1978

Huddleston's stated purpose is 'to give the reader an understanding of as much as possible of the earlier work so that he will have the necessary background to go on to the more advanced studies dealing with these current issues of controversy' (260). I feel that H has, by and large, achieved his goal. The text is concise, comprehensive, unbiased, and as accurate as any other currently available introductory text. Linguists, of course, will find minor points of disagreement on the analysis of specific sentences; e.g., what I like least is the way H generates sentential complements: NP-(Det) N S, where N-^ it. This rule produces a Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by ROBERT K. HERBERT. Proceedings of the Symposium on African Language, Culture, and Society, held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, April 11, 1975. (Working papers in linguistics, 19.) Columbus: Ohio State University, 1975. Pp. vi, 215. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a Symposium held in connection with the 6th Conference on African Linguistics at the Ohio State University. At least two of them, however, were given at the Conference rather than the Symposium (Creider & Denny, DeBose), and two that were not given are represented by abstracts. The first six papers ' deal with related issues of language reform and language planning, including such aspects as the choice of national and official languages': J. A. Fishman, 'What do we know about language planning?' (1-2; a brief statement on the state of the art); I. Fodor, 'Language reforms of the past and in the developing countries' (3-17; language reform is largely a lexical problem); P. A. Kotey, 'The official language controversy: indigenous versus colonial' (18-26); J. A. Okezie, 'Language planning and literacy development: an African example' (27-36; highlights the Igbo situation); C. J. Emeka Okonkwo,' A function-oriented model of initial language planning in sub-Saharan Africa' (37-52); and M. Tadadjeu, 'Language planning in Cameroon: toward a trilingual education system' (53-75). The remaining papers deal with diverse topics: C. M. Scotton, 'Multilingualism in Lagos-what it means to the social scientist' (78-90; about linguistic data as a base for social-science hypothesis formulation and theory building); B. C. Johnson, 'Stable triglossia at Larteh, Ghana' (93-102; Larteh is said to represent future developments elsewhere in Africa); E. Wolff, 'The conceptual framework of Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in German for teachers, scholars, and graduate students who want their memories refreshed, or who would like to see the pieces of transformational theory put together in a straightforward and intelligent manner. [MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA, UCLA.] Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by ROBERT K. HERBERT. Proceedings of the Symposium on African Language, Culture, and Society, held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, April 11, 1975. (Working papers in linguistics, 19.) Columbus: Ohio State University, 1975. Pp. vi, 215. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a Symposium held in connection with the 6th Conference on African Linguistics at the Ohio State University. At least two of them, however, were given at the Conference rather than the Symposium (Creider & Denny, DeBose), and two that were not given are represented by abstracts. The first six papers ' deal with related issues of language reform and language planning, including such aspects as the choice of national and official languages': J. A. Fishman, 'What do we know about language planning?' (1-2; a brief statement on the state of the art); I. Fodor, 'Language reforms of the past and in the developing countries' (3-17; language reform is largely a lexical problem); P. A. Kotey, 'The official language controversy: indigenous versus colonial' (18-26); J. A. Okezie, 'Language planning and literacy development: an African example' (27-36; highlights the Igbo situation); C. J. Emeka Okonkwo,' A function-oriented model of initial language planning in sub-Saharan Africa' (37-52); and M. Tadadjeu, 'Language planning in Cameroon: toward a trilingual education system' (53-75). The remaining papers deal with diverse topics: C. M. Scotton, 'Multilingualism in Lagos-what it means to the social scientist' (78-90; about linguistic data as a base for social-science hypothesis formulation and theory building); B. C. Johnson, 'Stable triglossia at Larteh, Ghana' (93-102; Larteh is said to represent future developments elsewhere in Africa); E. Wolff, 'The conceptual framework of Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in German for teachers, scholars, and graduate students who want their memories refreshed, or who would like to see the pieces of transformational theory put together in a straightforward and intelligent manner. [MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA, UCLA.] Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by ROBERT K. HERBERT. Proceedings of the Symposium on African Language, Culture, and Society, held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, April 11, 1975. (Working papers in linguistics, 19.) Columbus: Ohio State University, 1975. Pp. vi, 215. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a Symposium held in connection with the 6th Conference on African Linguistics at the Ohio State University. At least two of them, however, were given at the Conference rather than the Symposium (Creider & Denny, DeBose), and two that were not given are represented by abstracts. The first six papers ' deal with related issues of language reform and language planning, including such aspects as the choice of national and official languages': J. A. Fishman, 'What do we know about language planning?' (1-2; a brief statement on the state of the art); I. Fodor, 'Language reforms of the past and in the developing countries' (3-17; language reform is largely a lexical problem); P. A. Kotey, 'The official language controversy: indigenous versus colonial' (18-26); J. A. Okezie, 'Language planning and literacy development: an African example' (27-36; highlights the Igbo situation); C. J. Emeka Okonkwo,' A function-oriented model of initial language planning in sub-Saharan Africa' (37-52); and M. Tadadjeu, 'Language planning in Cameroon: toward a trilingual education system' (53-75). The remaining papers deal with diverse topics: C. M. Scotton, 'Multilingualism in Lagos-what it means to the social scientist' (78-90; about linguistic data as a base for social-science hypothesis formulation and theory building); B. C. Johnson, 'Stable triglossia at Larteh, Ghana' (93-102; Larteh is said to represent future developments elsewhere in Africa); E. Wolff, 'The conceptual framework of Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in German for teachers, scholars, and graduate students who want their memories refreshed, or who would like to see the pieces of transformational theory put together in a straightforward and intelligent manner. [MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA, UCLA.] Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by ROBERT K. HERBERT. Proceedings of the Symposium on African Language, Culture, and Society, held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, April 11, 1975. (Working papers in linguistics, 19.) Columbus: Ohio State University, 1975. Pp. vi, 215. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a Symposium held in connection with the 6th Conference on African Linguistics at the Ohio State University. At least two of them, however, were given at the Conference rather than the Symposium (Creider & Denny, DeBose), and two that were not given are represented by abstracts. The first six papers ' deal with related issues of language reform and language planning, including such aspects as the choice of national and official languages': J. A. Fishman, 'What do we know about language planning?' (1-2; a brief statement on the state of the art); I. Fodor, 'Language reforms of the past and in the developing countries' (3-17; language reform is largely a lexical problem); P. A. Kotey, 'The official language controversy: indigenous versus colonial' (18-26); J. A. Okezie, 'Language planning and literacy development: an African example' (27-36; highlights the Igbo situation); C. J. Emeka Okonkwo,' A function-oriented model of initial language planning in sub-Saharan Africa' (37-52); and M. Tadadjeu, 'Language planning in Cameroon: toward a trilingual education system' (53-75). The remaining papers deal with diverse topics: C. M. Scotton, 'Multilingualism in Lagos-what it means to the social scientist' (78-90; about linguistic data as a base for social-science hypothesis formulation and theory building); B. C. Johnson, 'Stable triglossia at Larteh, Ghana' (93-102; Larteh is said to represent future developments elsewhere in Africa); E. Wolff, 'The conceptual framework of Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in German for teachers, scholars, and graduate students who want their memories refreshed, or who would like to see the pieces of transformational theory put together in a straightforward and intelligent manner. [MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA, UCLA.] Patterns in language, culture, and society: Sub-Saharan Africa. Ed. by ROBERT K. HERBERT. Proceedings of the Symposium on African Language, Culture, and Society, held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, April 11, 1975. (Working papers in linguistics, 19.) Columbus: Ohio State University, 1975. Pp. vi, 215. Most of the papers in this volume were given at a Symposium held in connection with the 6th Conference on African Linguistics at the Ohio State University. At least two of them, however, were given at the Conference rather than the Symposium (Creider & Denny, DeBose), and two that were not given are represented by abstracts. The first six papers ' deal with related issues of language reform and language planning, including such aspects as the choice of national and official languages': J. A. Fishman, 'What do we know about language planning?' (1-2; a brief...

LLA4 (Linguistique et Langues Africaines), 2019

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Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 2019