| Description |
xviii, 371 p. : ill., maps. |
| Series |
Cambridge approaches to language contact |
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Cambridge approaches to language contact.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-353) and index. |
| Contents |
Is Africa a linguistic area? / Bernd Heine & Zelealem Leyew -- Africa as a phonological area / G.N. Clements & Annie Rialland -- Africa as a morphosyntactic area / Denis Creissels ... [et al.] -- The macro-Sudan belt : towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa / Tom Guldemann -- The Tanzanian Rift Valley area / Roland Kie ling, Maarten Mous & Derek Nurse -- Ethiopia / Joachim Crass & Ronny Meyer -- The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa / Christa Konig -- Africa's verb-final languages / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
African languages.
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Languages in contact -- Africa.
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Linguistic geography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Heine, Bernd, 1939-
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Nurse, Derek.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780521876117 (alk. paper) |
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0521876117 (alk. paper) |
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