Recent publications in African linguistics

The following is a continuation of our comprehensive list of recently published books and monographs on African languages and linguistics. Prices are given where available. This list serves as an acknowledgement of receipt of review copies of the items marked (R). Copies of book reviews printed in the journal are automatically sent to the publishers. There can be no guarantee, however, that all works received will in fact be reviewed. Authors who would like to review a particular book or would like to be considered in general as potential reviewers are encouraged to write to the editor indicating their areal and topical fields of interest (Nina van der Vlugt).

Allison, Sean. 2020. A grammar of Makary Kotoko (Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages 12), 493. Leiden: Brill. EUR 149 (hardback). (R)

Baldi, Sergio. 2020. Dictionary of Arabic loanwords in the languages of Central and East Africa (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 145), 315. Leiden: Brill. EUR 144 (hardback), USD 167 (hardback).

Bassiouney, Reem. 2020. Arabic sociolinguistics, 2nd edn, 408. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. GBP 85 (hardback).

Bisang, Walter & Andrej Malchukov. 2020. Grammaticalization scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific, XXIII + 488. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. EUR 200 (hardback).

Čéplö, Slavomír & Jaroslav Drobný. 2020. Maltese linguistics on the Danube (Studia Typologica 24), VIII + 322. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. EUR 100 (hardback).

Cooper, Julien. 2020. Toponymy on the periphery (Probleme der Ägyptologie 39), 718. Leiden: Brill. EUR 270 (hardback).

Davis, Stephen J. 2020. Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryān Volume 1, XXXVI-427. Leuven: Peeters. EUR 130.

Dempwolff, Otto. 2020. Die Sandawe: Linguistisches und ethnographisches Material aus Deutch-Ostafrika (LINCOM Grammatica 223), 196. München: LINCOM GmbH. EUR 67 (paperback).

Deumert, Ana, Anne Storch & Nick Shepherd (eds.). 2020. Colonial and decolonial linguistics: Knowledges and epistemes, 400. Oxford: Oxford University Press. GBP 70 (hardback).

Ehret, Christopher & Merrick Posnansky (eds.). 2020. The archaeological and linguistic reconstruction of African history, 312. Berkeley: University of California Press. EUR 110. (Re-edition. Originally published 1982).

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt & Erin Shay (eds.). 2020. The Afroasiatic languages (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. GBP 54 (paperback). (Re-edition. Originally published 2012).

Grant, Anthony P. (ed.). 2020. The Oxford handbook of language contact (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford: Oxford University Press. GBP 125 (hardback).

Güldemann, Tom, Patrick McConvell & Richard A. Rhodes. 2020. The language of hunter-gatherers, XXII + 724. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. GBP 115 (hardback).

Hein, Johannes. 2020. Verb doubling and dummy verb (Linguistische Arbeiten 574), XIII + 511. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. EUR 110.

Hickey, Raymond (ed). 2020. The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. USD 56, GBP 56 (paperback). (Re-edition. Originally published 2017).

Honkanen, Mirka. 2020. World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian diaspora in the USA (Varieties of English around the World 63), VII + 388. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. EUR 105 (hardback). (R)

Jowitt, David. 2020. Nigerian English: Dialect of English, X + 242. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. EUR 20 (paperback).

Kandybowicz, Jason. 2020. Anti-contiguity: A theory of Wh-prosody (Oxford Studies Comparative Syntax Series), 172. Oxford: Oxford University Press. GBP 33 (paperback).

Kaschula, Russel H. & H. Ekkehard Wolff. (eds.). 2020. The transformative power of language: From postcolonial to knowledge societies in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. GBP 85 (paperback).

Kendall, Elisabeth & Yehia A. Mohamed. 2020. Diplomacy Arabic: An essential vocabulary, 112. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press. USD 20 (paperback).

Kohn, Mary, Walt Wolfram, Charlie Farrington, Jennifer Ren & Janneke Van Hofwegen. 2020. African American Language: Language development from Infancy to Adulthood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. GBP 30 (paperback).

Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed). 2020. Body part terms in conceptualization and language usage (Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 12), VII + 311. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. EUR 100 (hardback).

Lee, Chungmin & Jinho Parks (eds.). 2020. Evidentials and modals (Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface 39), 546. Leiden: Brill. EUR 169.

Lian, Chaoqun. 2020. Language, ideology and sociopolitical Change in the Arabic-speaking world: A study of the discourse of Arabic Language Academies, 264. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. GBP 85 (hardback).

Lucas, Christopher & Stefano Manfredi (eds.). 2020. Arabic and contact-induced change: Contact and multilingualism, 702. Berlin: Language Science Press. Free pdf at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/235.

McPherson, Laura. 2020. A grammar of Seenku (Mouton Grammar Library 83), XX + 572. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. USD 173.

Meeuwis, Michael. 2020. A grammatical overview of Lingála: Revised and extended edition (LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 81 (2nd edn.), 333. München: LINCOM GmbH. EUR 148.

Moodie, Jonathan & Rosey Billington. 2020. A grammar of Lopit: An Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan (Grammars and Sketches of the World’s Languages 11). Leiden: Brill. EUR 165.

Ngonyani, Deo S. 2020. Chinyanja of Tanzania (Languages of the World/Materials 514), 96. München: LINCOM GmBH. EUR 59.

Pacchiarotti, Sara. 2020. Bantu Applicative Constructions, 363. Stanford CA: CSLI Publications. USD 49 (paperback). (R).

Rao, Rajiv (ed.). 2020. Spanish phonetics and phonology in contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, X + 452. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. EUR 105 (hardback).

Rüsch, Maren. 2020. A conversational analysis of Acholi: Structure and socio-pragmatics of a Nilotic language of Uganda (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 25). Leiden: Brill. EUR 144 (hardback).

Sands, Bonny (ed.). 2020. Click Consonants (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 15), 484. Leiden: Brill. EUR 138 (hardback). (R)

Schreier, Daniel, Marianne Hundt & Edgar W. Schneider (eds.). 2020. The Cambridge Handbook of Word Englishes, XXIV + 706. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. GBP 120 (hardback).

Shah, Mustafa & Mohammad Abdel Haleem (eds). 2020. The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies (Oxford Handbooks), 944. Oxford: Oxford University Press. GBP 125 (hardback).

Sheyhatovitch, Beata & Almog Kasher (eds). 2020. From Sībawayhi to ʾAḥmad Ḥasan al-Zayyāt: New Angles on the Arabic Linguistic Tradition (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 101), 225. Leiden: Brill. EUR 99 (hardback).

Smith, Norvan, Tonjes Veenstra & Enoch Oladé Aboh. 2020. Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken (Contact Language Library 57), IX + 400. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. EUR 105 (hardback).

Storch, Anne & Nico Nassenstein. 2020. Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression, IX + 132. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. EUR 105 (hardback).

Van der Wal, Jenneke, Heleen Smits, Sara Petrollino, Victoria Nyst & Maarten Kossmann (eds). 2020. Essays on African languages and linguistics in honour of Maarten Mous (ASC Occasional Publication 41), 578. Leiden: African Studies Centre Leiden. Free pdf at https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/138531

Van Gelderen, Elly (ed.). 2020. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Temple, Arizona, 2018 (Studies in Arabic Linguistics 9), V + 174. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. USD 188 (hardback).

Vossen, Reinard & Gerrit Dimmendaal (eds.). 2020. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press. GBP 145 (hardback).