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African Linguistics across the Disciplines: Selected Papers from the 48th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

by Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich

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This collection brings together research on African languages across phonology, morphology, syntax and language use. Its chapters examine particular linguistic systems while showing how their analysis connects with questions in typology, speech research, orthography and grammatical theory.

Studies include vowel deletion, tonal alternations, noun classes, agreement, tense, focus and quantification. The range of languages and methods allows readers to compare detailed descriptions with broader explanatory approaches, including work on spoken language and the practical representation of linguistic distinctions.

The complete edited volume preserves every selected conference paper, original linguistic example, table and reference section.

Samson Lotven, Silvina Bongiovanni, Phillip Weirich, Robert Botne and Samuel Gyasi Obeng (editors). African Linguistics across the Disciplines. Language Science Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3520612. Licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Cover and design: Ulrike Harbort. Typesetting: Felix Kopecky, Kenneth Steimel and Sebastian Nordhoff. Original notices retained.