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Quotative Indexes in African Languages
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 196.00The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The bookwill be... more...
Coding Participant Marking
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of northeastern Africa, which also use converbs... more...
Studies in African Linguistic Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 218.00The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today. Where previous volumes would present language material from a very restricted area and perspective, the present contributions reflect the global interest and orientation of current African linguistic studies. The studies are nearly... more...
The Expression of Information Structure
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 158.00This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant for some of the most pertinent questions in modern linguistic... more...
An Introduction to African Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 188.00This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question:... more...
Topics in African Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 180.00The 16 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the conference; they represent the state of the art in various subfields of African linguistics into which the book is organized: (1) morphosyntax, (2) semantics, (3) phonology, and (4) language contact. The last part covers topics such as code-switching and mixing, pidginization/creolization,... more...
A Linguistic Geography of Africa
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 38.00An edited 2007 collection of essays discussing the linguistic relationships between African languages. more...
The Expression of Information Structure
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The book reports on the present state of the theoretical presentation, empirical investigation, psycholinguistic aspects and acquisition of information structure, and computation. It also provides descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types. The book can be used as a textbook appropriate... more...
The Syntax of Topic, Focus, and Contrast
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax.The authorspropose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a result of mapping rules flexible enough to allow topics and foci to be expressed in a variety of positions, but strict enough to capture certain cross-linguistic... more...









