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Geographical typology and linguistic areas : with special reference to Africa /
Is Africa a linguistic area (Heine & Leyew 2008)? The present volume consists of sixteen papers highlighting the linguistic geography of Africa, covering, in particular, southern Africa with its Khoisan languages. A wide range of phenomena are discussed to give an overview of the pattern of soci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in linguistics (Tōkyō Gaikokugo Daigaku) ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Message from the President; Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education; Introduction; References; Areal Features and Linguistic Areas; 1. Preamble; 2. Macro-areas, and their features; 3. Some widespread mechanisms of contact-induced change; 4. Convergence zones and mechanisms of areal diffusion: an Amazonianexample; 4.1. Backdrop: Amazonian versus Andine linguistic types; 4.2. The Multilingual Vaupés River Basin as a low-tier linguistic area.