Index of Languages, Language Families and Areas

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Message from the President 1
4. Center for Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education 3
5. Introduction 7
6. Section 1
7. Areal Features and Linguistic Areas: Contact-induced Change and Geographical Typology 13
8. Areas of Grammaticalization and Geographical Typology 41
9. Case Marking and Linguistic Geography 67
10. Can Ethiopian Languages be Considered Languages in the African Linguistic Area? The Case of Highland East Cushitic, particularly Sidaama and Kambaata 91
11. Proto-Bantu and Proto-Niger-Congo: Macro-areal Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction 109
12. Section 2
13. Explaining Convergence and the Formation of Linguistic Areas 143
14. Is Kumam a Creole Language? A Mechanism of Linguistic Convergence in the Southern Lwo Area 161
15. The Continuum of Languages in West Tanzania Bantu: A Case Study of Gongwe, Bende, and Pimbwe 177
16. Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in the Khoe-speaking Area of Southern Africa 189
17. Tense and Aspect in Khoesan: The case of Ju/'hoansi 201
18. Section 3
19. Ritual Pathways: Contact in a Framework of Difference, Imitation and Alterity 213
20. The Eastern Kalahari Khoe: A Focus on Inter-Khoisan Ethno-language Dynamics around the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans of Botswana 233
21. Language Contact and Social Change in North-central Namibia: Socialization via Singing and Dancing Activities among the !Xun San 251
22. Two Types of Kinship Classifi cation Found among the Khoe Languages — Relative and Absolute Calculations in Determining the Seniority among Classifi catory Siblings 269
23. A First Report on G|ui Ideophones 279
24. Section 4
25. Noun-Modifi er Order in Africa 287
26. Index of Authors 313
27. Index of Languages, Language Families and Areas 315
28. Index of Subjects 318
29. Contributors 321