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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 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.

Author Biography:

Bernd Heine is Professor Emeritus of African Studies at the University of Koln, Germany. Derek Nurse is Henrietta Harvey Research Professor in the Linguistics Department at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Release date Australia
December 13th, 2007
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Bernd Heine
  • Edited by Derek Nurse
Pages
390
Dimensions
160x230x29
ISBN-13
9780521876117
Product ID
2045960

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