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Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic
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Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
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Release Date : 2023-11-08
Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-08 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Due to a long history of contact, the Chadic languages are the internally most diverse of the Afroasiatic language families, especially in terms of their sound systems. In this ground-breaking study, the author draws on his extensive research experience to unpack the morpho-phonological principles that underpin the languages' diverse prosody effects, arguing that massive variation results from diachronic processes called 'prosodification' of segmental units. The study compares data from 66 of the 79 known languages from the Central branch of the Chadic language family, most of them unwritten and under-researched. It traces language changes for 228 lexical items that can be reconstructed from the proto-language's basic vocabulary, unearthing typological features that link Central Chadic to its deep Afroasiatic heritage. It is accompanied by a set of online appendixes, providing the full analytical apparatus of all lexical reconstructions, with explicit identification of each of the diachronic sound changes and processes involved.
A Historical Phonology Of Central Chadic
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Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-02
A Historical Phonology Of Central Chadic written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drawing on extensive field data, this groundbreaking work explores the development of the sound systems of Central Chadic languages.
A Historical Phonology Of Central Chadic
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Author : Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
A Historical Phonology Of Central Chadic written by Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES categories.
"Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the Afroasiatic macrofamily are highly internally diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language contact. This pioneering study explores the development of the sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major branch of the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from 60 different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks the specific phonological principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse phonological evolution, arguing that their diversity resultsw from historical processes of 'prosodification' of reconstructable segments of the proto-language. It offers meticulous historical analyses of 64 words from Proto-Central Chadic, into up to 60 individual modern languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular emphasis is on tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of palatalization and labialization prosodies within a phonological system that, on its deepest level, recognizes only one vowel phoneme"--
Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic
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Author : Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic written by Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Chadic languages categories.
"Based on the author's life-long research experience, this book unearths the linguistic history of 66 unwritten and under-researched Central Chadic languages in West- and Central Africa. It describes the complex historical development of the modern languages from the common proto-language and reconstructs 228 lexical items of their basic vocabulary"--
The Phonology Of Proto Central Chadic
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Author : Richard Gravina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Phonology Of Proto Central Chadic written by Richard Gravina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The Central Chadic languages are a diverse and fascinating collection of languages, spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. The phonologies of these languages have intrigued linguists since they were first studied, due to their minimal sets of phonemic vowels (sometimes only one), complex systems of vowel harmony, and extensive use of palatalized and labialized consonants. Analysis of these languages led to the proposal of phonemic units referred to as ‘prosodies’, which act on both vowels and consonants, allowing Central Chadic phonologies to be described in a neat and succinct way. 0This study looks at the diverse phonological systems found within Central Chadic, and reconstructs the phonological system of their ancestor language. This system is itself simple and succinct, and includes one phonemic prosody and just three phonemic vowels. The study describes the phonological processes that led from this system to the many phonological systems that are in use today, shedding light both on the history of the languages, and on issues in the analysis of these languages.
Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic
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Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Lexical Reconstruction In Central Chadic written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Based on the author's life-long research experience, this book unearths the linguistic history of under-researched Central Chadic languages.
Chadic Lexical Roots Tentative Reconstruction Grading Distribution And Comments
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Author : Herrmann Jungraithmayr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Chadic Lexical Roots Tentative Reconstruction Grading Distribution And Comments written by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Chadic language categories.
Development Of Afro Asiatic Semito Hamitic Comparative Historical Linguistics In Russia And The Former Soviet Union
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Author : Gábor Takács
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Development Of Afro Asiatic Semito Hamitic Comparative Historical Linguistics In Russia And The Former Soviet Union written by Gábor Takács and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Africanists categories.
Lexical Reconstruction
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Author : Isidore Dyen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-11
Lexical Reconstruction written by Isidore Dyen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In this book, which was originally published in 1974, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics. The Athapaskan language family has members in Alaska, western Canada, the west coast and southwest of the United States, and Oklahoma. The authors use the kinship terminology of existing Athapaskan languages and dialects to provide a lexical reconstruction of the kinship terminology of the mother-language, Proto-Athapaskan, which existed perhaps 1,500 or more years ago. A central contribution of the work is the explicit delineation of the method used in lexical reconstruction to arrive at the likeliest inferences about the meanings of proto-lexemes. Other methodological contributions include a method for inferring features of social organization from kinship terminology and for reconstructing other features of social organization from the distribution of these features among existing groups.
Phonological Typology
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Author : Larry M. Hyman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-04-09
Phonological Typology written by Larry M. Hyman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology and cross-linguistic (formal) phonology. The purpose of this book is to bring together leading scholars to address the issue of phonological typology, both in terms of the unity and the diversity of phonological systems.