AFRICAN LANGUAGES

Kabba Short Stories

ROSMARIE MOSER LINCOM Studies

This collection of descriptive Kabba Short Stories in four languages (Kabba, French, English and in African Linguistics German) is of great cultural, historical and linguistic value and interest for people of all ages, places and backgrounds. Some stories deal with ancient and pre-colonial practices, worldviews Civili, langue des Baloango and belief systems, such as initiation ceremonies, sorcery, polygamy, birth processes, marriage ceremonies, and death rituals. Others describe life Esquisse Historique et Linguistique in the villages, and such things as the cultivation of millet and sesame, the construction of houses, PAUL ACHILLE MAVOUNGOU & HUGUES STEVE NDINGA-KOUMBA-BINZA the killing of a goat, the preparation of a special Université Omar Bongo (UOB) de Libreville; North-West University (Potchefstroom), sauce, and the collection of honey. As the Kabba are traditional hunters and Afrique du Sud fishermen as well as agriculturalists, some of the stories naturally deal with hunting and fishing. A leur arrivée sur les côtes d’Afrique centrale au XVe siècle, les Portugais découvrent un Others deal with the conflicts and changes Etat structuré d’une certaine modernité : le royaume de Loango. Malgré l’ossature involved with the arrival of the 'white man', such as the introduction of hospitals, schools, literacy, ethnolinguistique hétéroclite de sa population, le royaume est doté de plusieurs institutions cultivation of cotton, digging for diamonds, and stables dont une devise et une langue officielle. Cette dernière est le civili, langue bantu du playing football. Some stories are very personal groupe H10. Motivé par plusieurs centres d’intérêt historiques, sociolinguistiques et and deal with emotional issues, experiences and linguistiques, cet ouvrage est un condensé de connaissances sur la langue de ce royaume interpersonal relationships. These stories were told in Bangui during the years 1989 and 1999 by aujourd’hui partagé entre plusieurs entités politiques (Gabon, Congo, Angola, etc.) issus de men aged between 20 and 50. They are all experts la décolonisation. in the fields they are describing. This collection Il présente de façon succincte quelques phénomènes historiques, phonologiques, was edited and compiled by Rosmarie Moser. It morphosyntaxiques, homonymiques et analogiques de la langue. Des faits sémantiques des follows the publication by Lincom-Europa of 'Kabba: A Nilo-Saharan Language of the Central emprunts linguistiques y sont également décrits dans le cadre des changements African Republic' (2004), 'Kabba-English-French linguistiques. Le concept de changements linguistiques est ici élargi à la création des Dictionary' (2007) and 'Kabba Folk Tales and nouveaux mots, et des structures phonologiques et morphologiques par le biais de Proverbs' (2009). l’emprunt linguistique et du phénomène d’analogie. L’étude aboutit à la certitude selon ISBN 978 3 89586 240 3. LINCOM Text laquelle le civili est une langue en pleine évolution dans ses structures phonique et lexicale Collection 04. 670pp. USD 105.50 / EUR 85.80 ainsi que dans sa position comme langue locale dont il faut tenir compte dans les / GBP 72.90. 2010. planifications linguistiques de quelques pays d’Afrique centrale.

DICTIONNAIRE Sommaire: 1. Introduction. 2. La langue et son milieu. 3. Aperçu du système phonologique. BOO –FRANÇAIS – 4. Aperçu du système morphosyntaxique. 5. Les emprunts lexicaux. 6. Le phénomène d'homonymie. 7. Les phénomènes analogique revisités. 8. Conclusion. ANGLAIS avec INDEX FRANÇAIS — BOO IBSN 978 3 86288 006 5. LINCOM studies in African Linguistics 80. 134pp. USD 70.00 / EUR 60.20 / GBP 49.90. 2010. ROSS MCCALLUM JONES intéressante de ce dictionnaire est le nombre de syllable structure. The third chapter illustrates the verbes transitifs (1000) et intransitifs (2273), la numeral system of the language, discussing the Le dictionnaire boo-français-anglais a été compilé grande majorité étant des verbes composés. conventional ordinal, cardinal, numerals adverb par l'auteur pendant une quarantaine d’années. La and distributive numerals, while the fourth moitié de ce temps il a vécu parmi les Boo/Boussa ISBN 978 3 89586 436 0. Languages of the chapter, which concludes the book, presents the de la République du Bénin et du Nigéria. La World/Dictionaries 44. 605pp. USD 95.30 / vocabulary of the language. langue boo est connue historiquement comme EUR 78.80 / GBP 65.40. 2010. boko, mais elle est connue maintenant au Bénin officiellement comme boo. Elle forme un petit ISBN 978 3 89586 906 8. LINCOM Studies in groupe avec les langues bokobarou et boussa qui A Descriptive Analysis African Linguistics 79. 174pp.USD 79.00 / appartiennent au segment oriental des langues EUR 64.20 / GBP 54.60. 2010. mandées. La grammaire de ce groupe de langue a of Bura Verbs and été publiée par Lincom Europa en 1998 et un dictionnaire boko-anglais de 7000 mots a été Vocabulary A Grammar of the publié par Lincom en 2004. Cette édition contient 10.000 mots et est écrite MOHAMMED AMINU MU'AZU Miship Language pour les lecteurs francophones et anglophones. & FIBI BALAMI Les entrées principales et secondaires sont écrites University of Bayreuth, University of OHAMMED MINU U AZU en orthographe boo et sont suivies des M A M ' & représentations phonétiques, y compris des Maiduguri KATWAL PEMAK ISAH tonalités et des variantes, la partie du discours et Bura is an endangered language spoken in the University of Maiduguri des mots explicatifs en français et anglais. Les southern part of present-day Borno state, Nigeria. phrases dans le vernaculaire illustrent l'utilisation The language belongs to the Chadic branch of the Miship belongs to the West-Chadic sub-group of des mots, particulièrement verbes, suivis d'une Afro-Asiatic family, whose other members are the Afro-Asiatic phylum, spoken by 17,000 people traduction en français et anglais. Des synonymes Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, Omotic and Berber. in Plateau State, Nigeria. This book consists of sont donnés le cas échéant et 1232 commentaires This book offers a descriptive analysis of Bura five chapters; the first part looks at the historical étymologiques montrent l'emprunt historique verbs and vocabulary and is the first book ever on and ethnic backgrounds of the speakers of the significatif au dendi et plus récemment au français this aspect of the language. The book is divided Miship language, discusses its linguistics et à l’anglais. Ces commentaires incluent into four chapters. The first discusses the classifications and provides an overview of the également la forme boussa et bokobarou le cas geographical location of the language, the origin dialects of the language. The second part deals échéant, montrant l'affaiblissement et l'élision of the Bura people and the two dialects of the with the sound system, which includes substantiel et les changements dans les systèmes language: Bura and Pabər. The second explores descriptions of the consonants, vowels sounds, de tonalité. Ce dictionnaire a été également the Bura verbal system, identifying two types of other related phonological aspects, as well as the embelli par l'addition de 665 noms scientifiques suffixes: derivatives and inflectional suffixes. It tonal system of the language. The third section de faune et de flore et beaucoup d’autres as well examines verbal morphological processes discusses the nominal and verbal morphology of informations qui présentent un intérêt pour les and the tonal system of the language, identifying the language, covering such diverse dimensions, chercheurs universitaires. L’autre caractéristique two level tones, high and low tones, and the verb as the conventional nouns, verbs, inflections and

110 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 AFRICAN LANGUAGES other grammatical features, as well as ideophones l’opposition entre les tons bas et haut est tout à la signification et la portée du concept de and its structures. The fourth chapter treats fait remarquable. S’agissant de la morphologie "diversité culturelle" dans le sens d'une réelle syntactic features of the language using the nominale, la langue bemba distingue 15 classes prise en compte des cultures des minorités comme Choamskian’s method of sentence analysis. nominales simples et 3 classes locatives. Les sous- socle de développement économique et social. Phrase structure tree diagrams are drawn, and classes nominales sans augments existent L'auteur défend la vision d'une mondialisation phrase structure rules are established for some of indéniablement. La morphologie verbale de la véritablement représentative des diversités en the types of sentences that occur in the language langue bemba est caractérisée par une symétrie s'appuyant sur l'importance des droits and the concluding chapter presents the opposant notamment l’aspect et le temps. Sur le formellement reconnus dans la "Déclaration vocabulary of the language. plan temporel, la langue bemba distingue le passé universelle des droit de l'homme" ainsi que dans la immédiat, récent et éloigné. De même, la langue "Déclaration de l'Unesco sur la diversité ISBN 978 389586 993 8. LINCOM Studies in bemba fait une distinction entre le futur proche et culturelle". Ces textes fondateurs garantissent (1) African Linguistics 78. 209pp. USD 90.20 / lointain. La phrase déclarative de la langue bemba le droit fondamental de tout individu de participer EUR 73.30 / GBP 62.30 . 2010. est typiquement SVO. à la vie culturelle de sa communauté et sur celui de toute collectivité culturelle de préserver son ISBN 978 3 89586 823 8. LINCOM Studies in identité et (2) la préservation de la diversité A Grammar of Kilba African Linguistics 75. 402pp. USD 95.00 / culturelle qui doit prendre appui sur l’apport Language EUR 77.20 / GBP 65.60. 2009. marqué de l’identité et de la créativité culturelles au développement économique des États.

MOHAMMED AMINU MU’AZU Shiyeyi - English ISBN 978 3 929075 60 1. LINCOM Studies in University of Bayreuth Anthropology 10. USD 74.10 / EUR 60.20 / dictionary GBP 51.20. 183pp. 2009.

This book presents a detailed description of Kilba, a language of the Bata-Marghi sub-group of the STEPHEN T.M. LUKUSA Chadic family of the Afro-Asiatic Phylum. The University of Botswana The Digital Mbay book describes some linguistic aspects of Kilba.

As a preliminary to the main discussion, Language Project The Shiyeyi - English dictionary is the very first geographical location of Kilba land, culture and dictionary of its kind on the language. It goes dialects of the Language are highlighted. The JOHN M. KEEGAN farther than the existing glossaries of the language book then describes the Phonology, Morphology in that, in addition to giving translation and Syntax of the Language. On phonology, the equivalents of several entries, it also provides the This project creates a permanent digital record of book treats the sound system, Phonological user with a pronunciation guide, explanations, Mbay, a Nilo-Saharan language of the Sara Group processes and the tonal system of the language. examples showing the context in which words are spoken in southern Chad. The data from Keegan The section on Morphology treats, in part, used, as well as grammatical information. Its et al's 1996 Dictionary of Mbay and from nominal and verbal morphology of the language. readership includes without distinction native Keegan's 1997 A Reference Grammar of Mbay On the nominal, the book treats nouns, adjectives, speakers, foreigners and language learners of has been moved to a digital format that can be pronouns and adverbs, while the verbal different age groups. accessed from a DVD. Recordings from native morphology discusses the derivational and Shiyeyi is an endangered Bantu language speakers of Mbay are included for the vast inflectional aspects of the verbs. Finally, spoken in the North of Botswana and in the majority of the words and illustrative sentences. concerning syntax, the book treats the various Caprivi strip in the North-west of Namibia. The Both the dictionary and grammar have been constituents that make up the two phrases: book is based on real data collected from native revised and expanded, and over 1,000 new nominal and verbal. The book reveals the nature speakers from different Wayeyi villages and illustrative sentences have been added. The and restrictions that occur in the usage of the therefore contains alternative forms used by language DVD includes the following lexical items in the two phrases. Each of the items speakers from the entire Wayeyi domain. It is components: that occur both in the phrases are spelt out and authored by an experienced Bantuist who is 1. A database containing the Mbay dictionary phrase structure tree diagrams of some of the advantaged by the knowledge of several Bantu language data. sentences are drawn and phrase structure rules are languages and counts a number of publications on 2. The grammar in html format. also established in order to show how the both Shiyeyi and other Bantu languages. 3. Illustrations and photos from the dictionary in constituents are hierarchically related. JPG format. 4. Over 18,000 recordings of Mbay words, ISBN 978 3 89586 665 4. LINCOM Studies in ISBN 978 3 89586 289 2. Languages of the expressions, and sentences in MP3 format. African Linguistics 76. 198 pp. USD 80.20 / World/Dictionaries 42. 356pp. USD 95.00 / 5. Language software that provides simple access EUR 65.20 / 55.40. 2009. EUR 77.20 / GBP 65.60.2009. to this information. The user views the dictionary data page by page, and can click on words and sentences to hear them spoken by a native Phonologie et Les Minorités face à la speaker. There are extensive searching capabilities, and access to the grammar, the help morphologie Globalisation: system, and other information is available from menus. de la langue bemba enrichissements, ethnocides 6. A project containing the dictionary data for use ou ethnothanasies? with the Summer Instititute of Linguistic's ALEXANDER RAYMOND MAKASA Toolbox program. La culture des Bantu-Masangu du An accompanying booklet provides an KASONDE Gabon entre tradition et introduction to the project, the Mbay language and Africa University, Mutara modernisme the language software. This language software has been tested with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. With Le présent travail comprend deux parties, à savoir DANIEL FRANCK IDIATA une description du système phonologique suivie Windows Vista, it has been tested on a single d’une description de la structure morphologique Université de Libreville, Centre National de machine. It is not intended for use on Linux, Unix or any Apple OS's. de la langue bemba. La langue bemba est la la Recherche Scientifique du Gabon langue nationale principale de la Zambie où elle ISBN 978 3 89586 041 6. LINCOM Digital occupe la partie septentrionale avec quelques Cet ouvrage s’interroge, en se fondant sur la Language Library 01. USD 124.50 / EUR enclaves dans la région du Shaba de la République culture des Bantu-Masangu (Gabon), une minorité 101.20 / GBP 86.00. 2008. Démocratique du Congo (DR Congo). La langue d'environ 30.000 à 40.000 individus, sur la mise bemba aussi fait partie du groupement linguistique en œuvre des arguments souvent invoqués pour bantu qui couvre grosso modo l’ensemble de dynamiser la préservation de la diversité culturelle Topics in Descriptive l’Afrique au sud de l’équateur. La langue bemba dans un contexte de mondialisation croissante des est désignée „M.42“ dans la classification de économies. Il propose d'excellentes données de and African Linguistics Guthrie (1948). Précisons que les langues bantu terrains sur les fondements culturels des Bantu- Essays in Honor of Distinguished font partie de la famille linguistique niger-congo Masangu, à savoir, la vision du monde, les suivant la classification de Greenberg (1963), salutations, les rites initiatiques, les structures de Professor Paul Newman revue par Williamson (1989). parenté, les stratégies matrimoniales, l’attribution Sur le plan phonologique, la langue bemba du nom à l’enfant, la perception et le traitement de SAMUEL GYASI OBENG (ed.) comprend cinq phonèmes vocaliques du type la maladie, la conception et la gestion du temps et Indiana University triangulaire, faisant partie ainsi de la branche les technologies traditionnelles de chasse et de centrale du bantu de Nord-Est. L’existence de pèche. L'ouvrage se termine par une discussion sur Some of the papers in this volume are both

The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 111 AFRICAN LANGUAGES descriptive and theoretical in nature whereas called Ubangi-Shari, gained its independence from Throughout the history of Bantu language studies, others are purely descriptive. Two things all the France in 1960. which by now spans some 400 years, many papers have in common are; the ways in which Rosmarie Moser worked five years (1994- languages (and people) have been mentioned in Paul Newman’s work has influenced the work of 1999) as linguist among the Kabba. She is the both specialist and general literature. the individual authors; and the close and author of ‘Kabba: A Nilo-Saharan Language of The various language names used have varied systematic attention each author pays to natural the Central African Republic’, which was considerably throughout the years. In fact, it is not language data. Hyman’s chapter examines verb published by LINCOM in 2004. Jean-Pierre always self-evident what language any given classes and verb morphology (perfective, the Dingatoloum, a Kabba and French-English name may refer to. Not all authors agree on what pluractional, and progressive) in Leggbó, an teacher, was her close collaborator. Together they is a language and what is a dialect, or how name Upper Cross language spoken by the Abi and compiled the Kabba words and expressions and them. Some names used refer to languages, some Yakurr, in Cross River State, Nigeria. Heine’s translated them into French and English. to dialects. Some refer to sociolects, secret chapter on contact-induced grammatical languages, locations, etc., while others are simply replication argues that although it is fairly easy to ISBN 978 3 89586 556 5 (Hardcover). obscure. Consequently, one quite often stumbles establish that lexical material has been transferred Languages of the World/Dictionaries 41. on difficulties in trying to work out how any given from one language to another, establishing such 534pp. USD 142.10 / EUR 115.50 / GBP 98.20. name relates to other identical, similar or even lexical transfer is not easy when it comes to 2007. totally different names. grammatical replication, where no form-meaning The present index of Bantu languages offers a units are involved. Using the sentence as his tool to keep tabs on this glossonymic diversity. It operational construct and taking the basic Kabba Folk Tales includes a tabular index of Bantu language names sentence structure of Akan as, Subject-NP VP, found in the literature organised according to the Ofori examines the function(s) of the non- New Updated Guthrie List (Maho 2003, 2009), an contentive de and fa, their complementary usage, ROSMARIE MOSER (ed.) update of Guthries well-known 1971- and formal difference in activity-based (embedded classification. In addition, there are cross- serial) sentences. Schuh, Goge and Dole examine These Kabba folk stories have been recorded in references to the coding systems of several other productivity of “ish” reduplication in Gudi the Central African Republic in 1998. They were Bantu classifications, specifically those of Ngamo, a Chadic language spoken in Yobe State, told by gifted Kabba storytellers to a mixed Johnston (1919/22), Doke (Cole 1961), Cope Nigeria, by demonstrating that Gudi has a audience of adults and children. Jean-Pierre (1971), Henrici (1973), Heine (1973), Heine, Hoff productive nominal reduplication process that & Vossen (1977), Bastin, Coupez & Man (1999), Dingatoloum transcribed them. A number of expresses the concept “like a NOUN,” “NOUN- and SIL14 (2000). different Kabba speakers, translated them into like,” or “NOUN-ish.” The authors also discuss the tone patterns of reduplicants. Obeng’s chapter French. Rosmarie Moser translated them into describes Akan (Akuapem-Twi) deverbal nouns English and Knut Olawsky into German. ISBN 978 3 89586 688 3. LINCOM Studies in by grouping them into simple, reduplicated, Traditional folktales play an important African Linguistics 73. 195pp. USD 99.90 / compound, and functionally shifted. Obeng educational role in African societies. They express EUR 81.20 / GBP 69.00. 2008. describes morphophonological processes like cultural values through metaphorical narratives place and voice assimilations, vowel harmony, and the personification of animals and mythical and tonal assimilation that take place during the creatures. They contain covert meanings and messages and they are both amusing and thought- A Grammar of Makwe formation of deverbal nouns. The chapter by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald provoking. outlines the split ergative system (ergative- Rosmarie Moser is the author of “Kabba: A MAUD DEVOS absolutive and nominative-accusative Nilo-Saharan Language of the Central African Royal Museum of Central Africa, Bruxelles constructions) of Paumari, a member of the Arawa Republic” (2004), and the compiler with Jean- family spoken in Brazil on the Purús, Ituxí, and Pierre Dingatoloum of the “Kabba-English-French A Grammar of Makwe presents a detailed Tapauá rivers with around 200 speakers. The Dictionary” (2007). Both were published by description of a hitherto largely undocumented author shows how the above constructions are Lincom-Europa. Bantu language spoken in the North of marked including case marking, cross-referencing, Mozambique. Historically speaking, Makwe is the noun class and gender agreement, and the order of Contents: outcome of a long-standing contact between constituents. Tristan Purvis' chapter discusses 1. The Dog and the Hen 2. The Pig 3. The Frog Makonde as spoken in the interior of Tanzania adverbial expressions of manner in Tigrinya, a (Anicet Bondeï) and Mozambique and Swahili as spoken along the Semitic language of Eritrea. Purvis provides an 4. The Bat 5. The Orphan 6. The Snake (Arsène East African coast. This grammar treats Makwe overview of several adverb constructions and then Gelko) phonology, the morphology of nouns, verbs and argues that these forms exist in their own 7. The Lion and the Rat (Wali Baro) minor word categories, the semantics of verbal grammatical category. He discusses manner 8. The Lizard and the Dog 9. The Hunter and the conjugations, and different syntactic topics. A rich adverbs in nominalization, prepositional phrases, Alligator 10. Komberiom and the Leper (Clément collection of texts is offered at the end. subordinate clauses, and serial verb constructions. Béti) Throughout the work, the linguistic analyses are In the final chapter, Obeng describes the linguistic 11. Esu and Enjamgotoje (Daniel Tabe) abundantly illustrated with natural speech strategies used by politicians to create new 12.Majiram and his Peanuts 13. The Girls and the examples. Of special interest are the so-called political vocabulary and expressions. He identifies Lions 14. The Thief and the Hyena 15. Kerputu conjoint and disjoint verb forms and modifiers eponymy, clipping, borrowing, semantic change, the Liar 16. A Mother and her Son (Constant which present a striking example of an interface compounding, derivation, and coinage, as being Maïde) between phonology, morphology, syntax and some of the strategies through which Ghanaian 17. The Frog and the Girl (Ernest Depassem) pragmatics. political vocabulary are created. 18. The Magical Bird (Esther Degoto) 19. The Leopard, the Dog and the Squirrel 20. The ISBN 978 3 89586 107 9. LINCOM Studies in Goat and the Thieves 21. The Fulani Girl ISBN 978 3 89586 814 6 (Hardbound). African Linguistics 71. 533pp. USD 105.20 / 22. The Tortoise and the Toad 23. The Pig and the EUR 85.50 / GBP 72.70. 2008. LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 74. Tortoise 24. The Dog, the Goat and the Sheep 174pp. USD 141.70 / EUR 115.20 / GBP 97.90. (Jean-Pierre Dingatoloum) 2009. 25. The Dog and the Alligator (Luc Lambate) L’énoncé complexe du 26. Esu and the the Wasp 1 (Lydie Tambe) 27. Esu and the Hare (Elysée Tambe) nànáfwε Kabba-English-French 28. Esu and the Bee (Samson Binemon) È 29. The Hare and the Pig 30. Esu and the the Dictionary AMANI BOHOUSSOU Wasp 2 31. Esu and the Elephant 32. Yaïta and With English-Kabba and French- His Sister 33. The Hand and the Foot 34. The University of Erfurt Kabba Finderlists Hare and the Hyena (Narcisse Djaïn) Le présent travail porte sur le Nanafwe, parler Baoule en usage en Côte d’Ivoire. Il appartient à ISBN 978 3 929075 20 5. LINCOM Text ROSMARIE MOSER & JEAN-PIERRE la famille des langues kwa. Les locuteurs Nanafwe DINGATOLOUM Collections 01. 574 pp. USD 104.80 / EUR vivent dans le district autonome de 85.20 / GBP 72.40. 2009. Yamoussoukro. Du point de vue typologique, ce Kabba is a Central-Sudanic language of the West- parler présente une structure S V O et use d’une Sara group; it is spoken by approximately 80,000 postposition. La position de l’adjectif est people in the Central African Republic. The Indices to Bantu postpoposé au nom qu’il qualifie. Au niveau Kabba are warriors, agriculturalists, hunters and phonologique, le Nanafwe use de tons : fishermen. They migrated from East-Africa to the languages (Haut,Moyen et Bas). Quant à la substance même C.A.R. during civil upheavals and slave trade. The de la thèse, elle fait une description des énoncés Kabba fought alongside the French in Europe and JOUNI FILIP MAHO complexes de ce parler. Il part d’abord d’une in Indo-China. The C.A.R., which was previously perspective onomasiologique - fonction-forme :

112 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 AFRICAN LANGUAGES plusieurs fonctions ont été identifiées et décrites. with in the last subsection of part 2. Part 3 offers a used vowels. Secondly, it acknowledges the Dans la seconde partie, c’est d’une perspective detailed account of verbal morphosyntax. After importance of tone and utilizes it to aid the sémasiologique - forme-fonction que les the discussion of the general characteristics process of word identification, discrimination and propriétés sémantiques de chaque phrase (phonemic/tonemic/morphosyntactic) of the verb distinction. Thirdly, the dictionary provides complexe ont été examinées et présentées. forms and conjugation patterns, follows the etymological information on the sources of description of complex predicates. The final borrowed words to excavate the sociopolitical ISBN 978 3 89586 117 8. LINCOM Studies in subsection of part 3 deals with the free contacts of the Acholi people. Fourthly, words morphemes expressing tense, aspect and modality. from the various dialects of Acholi spoken in both African Linguistics 72. 224pp. USD 83.00 / EUR 67.50. / GBP 57.40. 2008. Uganda and the Sudan find equal prominence, ISBN 978 3 89586 180 2. LINCOM Studies in reflecting the author’s own background and the African Linguistics 70. 112pp. USD 78.60 / strength and depth of the informants. Fifthly, it is A Descriptive Grammar EUR 63.90 / GBP 54.30. 2007. the product of a linguist who has a near native level command of the language, having spent most of his formative years among the Acholi of of KʌThemne (Temne) Introduction to the Uganda and more recently living among the Morphology Acholi of the Sudan. Lastly, this dictionary gives SHEIKH UMARR KAMARAH both Acholi - English and English - Acholi Virginia State University of Setswana versions of lexical items. An equally important feature of this dictionary is its attempt at establishing a clear and concise KʌThemnε (Temne), is a member of the South CASPAR J.H. KRÜGER way of pronouncing and writing Acholi words Atlantic sub-family of the larger Niger-Congo North-West University, South Africa which should be invaluable to both the native family of languages. It is one of the two major speaker and the foreign learner of the language. languages of the West African country of Sierra This contribution is an attempt to describe the While seeking to establish a standardardised way Leone. The language is spoken by over a million morphology of Setswana, an African language of spelling Acholi words, ironically this dictionary native speakers and over a million second spoken in the north-western regions of the does not advocate the marking of tones, nor the language speakers. It is the regional lingua franca Republic of South Africa (RSA) and in Botswana. distinction of vowel quality in writing Acholi, of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. Setswana includes approximately seven closely except in specialized projects like dictionaries, as KʌThemnε has been known to, and studied by related dialects and it is roughly estimated that the meaning of Acholi words can often be easily European linguists for over one and a half language is spoken by about three million deciphered from the context. centuries. Because of its comprehensive Noun speakers. Dr Mairi Blackings was educated at Gulu High Setswana is an agglutinating language in School, Uganda, the University of Juba, Sudan, Class system, KʌThemnε has been compared to which the system of noun classes is a distinctive the University of Leeds, and the University of Bantu languages. feature. These noun classes dominate the Strathclyde, UK, where he is currently a Post This volume is the first comprehensive morphological structure of the language by means Doctoral Fellow. He is the author of Ma’di - description of the linguistic components of the of agreement morphemes which are derived from English Dictionary (2000) and the co-author of A language. The book is divided into four parts: Part the prefixes of the different noun classes. Grammar of Ma’di (2003). 1 presents the language and its dialects. Part 2 The official orthography employs a disjuntive deals with the segmental phonetics and phonology system of word division. ISBN 978 3 929075 69 4. Languages of the of the language. The phonemes of the language The following aspects regarding Setswana are World/Dictionaries 43. 200pp. USD 86.40 / are fully described, and phonological rules discussed: EUR 70.20 / GBP 59.70. 2009. presented. In Part 3, the morphology of a. The problem of word division and word KʌThemnε is presented. Both nominal and verbal identification as expressed by the morphology are thoroughly explored. Part 4 deals conjunctive, the semi-conjunctive and the The Phonetics of with the syntax (sentence structure) of the disjunctive systems of word division used in language. This section presents, among other the south-eastern zone. Nigerian Languages things, the Temne syntactic categories and phrasal b. Various approaches to the notion of the morpheme and it’s relation to the word in the types. Following this description is a sample text CLARA IKEKEONWU with interlinear translation. above systems. University of Nigeria, Nsukka c. A proposal for a suitable word-class system ISBN 978 3 89586 355 4. Languages of the that can systematically and consistantly be This book presents the sound structure of seven World/Materials 465. 186pp USD 82.00 / employed in both morphology and syntax. 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The description is based on the first University of Strathclyde segments – consonants and vowels – used in the author’s field work and linguistic immersion, over languages indicating their combinatory fifty years, in the Ngbaka community. Acholi is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Nilotic possibilities and aspects of the prosody of these The grammar has three parts: Phonology and stock belonging to the southern cluster of Lwo languages. tonology; Non-verbal morphosyntax; Verbal languages found in Uganda, Kenya and the Sudan. Chapter six investigates patterns of morphosyntax. In the first part the phonemic and In Uganda, the Acholi (800000 speakers) occupy intersegmental co-ordination in the languages tonemic system of Ngbaka is described, and a full the northernmost districts of Gulu, Kitgum, while chapter seven details aspects of interference account of syllable structure is given. 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450,000 people in the Western Province of significant changes in the tone systems. Theoretical Issues in the Zambia. The work also describes the Grammar of Kikamba: A morphological structure of Silozi. In addition, it ISBN 3 89586 837 X. Languages of the investigates the hypothesis that there is a World/Dictionaries 31. 212pp. USD 103.00 / Bantu Language correlation between the internal structure of a EUR 83.70 / GBP 71.20. 2004.

constituent (length and structural complexity) and ANGELINA NDUKU KIOKO the position it occupies in the clause or sentence. Using a database of spoken and written Silozi Bokobaru dictionary This study describes some key aspects of Kikamba texts, the work employs both qualitative and grammar in the context of advances in theoretical quantitative methods to investigate the distribution ROSS JONES linguistics. As a preliminary to the main of constituents in their functional profiles. It thus discussion, the phonology, morphology and considers the parameters of constituent ordering in The Bokobaru-English, English-Bokobaru syntax of the language are outlined in chapter 2. discourse. dictionary was compiled by the author in Nigeria The book then describes in detail the agreement The work concludes that there is a strong over a 12 year period while translating the Bible system, chapter 3; the pronominal system, chapter correlation between the internal structure of into Bokobaru. It forms a trilogy together with the 4; the passive construction, chapter 5; and the constituents and the position in which they occur simultaneously published Boko and Busa applicative construction, chapter 6; in the light of in a clause or sentence. This is so especially in dictionaries. This cluster of languages, of which theoretical literature falling within the constructions that place the subject in the initial the grammar was published in 1998 by Lincom Government and Binding, Relational Grammar position (SVX) which constitute the bulk of the Europa, belongs to the Eastern subdivision of the and Lexical Functional Grammar. data. There is also evidence for this hypothesis in Mande language family. The application of the tenets of these theories some focusing constructions. The work has also The database is root based, so that any word to the description of the Kikamba data leaves found that in constructions which place that begins with a lexeme root will appear as a some varieties of structures unaccounted for. In constituents other than the subject in the initial subentry under that lexeme. The head and particular it is argued that, to account for all the position (e.g. left dislocations), the ordering subwords are written in Bokobaru orthography, varieties of the passive construction observed in significantly contradicts the predictions of this followed by phonetic representations, including Kikamba, we need to look at the basic features of hypothesis. tones and variants, a part of speech label and the passive verb. The passive verb needs to be one glosses in English. Sentences in the vernacular that has an inherent argument and one that can ISBN 3 89586 770 5. LINCOM Studies in illustrate the use of the words, followed by a take an expletive subject. Similarly, the analysis of African Linguistics 66. 384pp. USD 109.80 / translation into English. the applicative construction points to the need to EUR 89.30 / GBP 75.90. 2005. Etymology, synonyms and variants are given recognize two functions of the applied affix: a as appropriate, with the etymology showing transitivizing function and a crossreferencing significant historical borrowing from Dendi. function. Object creation is shown to be a What Bantu child Comparison of Bokobaru words with the consequence and not a function of the cross- speech data tells us equivalent words in the Boko and Busa referencing use of the applied affix. dictionaries illustrates consonant weakening, about the controversial semantics of elision and significant changes in the tone ISBN 3 89586 485 4. LINCOM Studies in Bantu Noun class system systems.

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particular. The present book, which come back on ROSS JONES OOST WARTS J Z that exiting subject treat the question of the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht correlation between affixes of classes and The Boko-English, English-Boko dictionary was semantic categorization in a new perspective, that compiled by the author over a period of 35 years, Endo is a southern Nilotic (Kalenjin) language of the language acquisition in children. lt is about half of which time he lived among the Boko spoken in the west of Kenya by about 50,000 comparing historical data (proto-Bantu people in Benin Republic. It forms a trilogy people that has not been previously described in reconstructions) and the reality of nominal class together with the simultaneously published the literature. In this book the segmental systems in synchrony with acquisitional strategies Bokobaru and Busa dictionaries. This cluster of phonology of Endo is covered in great detail, developed by children in the acquisition process languages, of which the grammar was published in based on the personal field work of the author. of these systems by children. 1998 by Lincom Europa, belongs to the Eastern After an overview of the consonant and vowel subdivision of the Mande language family.. inventories the structure of syllables is described. ISBN 3 89586 462 5. LINCOM Studies in The database is root based, so that any word There are chapters on phonological processes African Linguistics 67. 160pp. USD 83.30 / that begins with a lexeme root will appear as a involving consonants and processes involving EUR 67.70 / GBP 57.60. 2005. subentry under that lexeme. The 7000 head and vowels. Special attention is paid to the vowel subwords written in Boko orthography are harmony phenomena in this language and there is followed by phonetic representations, including a chapter on some aspects of the tonal system. An Busa dictionary tones and variants, a part of speech label and appendix gives an extensive overview of the rich glosses in English and French. Sentences in the morphology of Endo. The book is relevant for ROSS JONES vernacular illustrate the use of the words, linguists and anthropologists interested in African followed by a translation into English. languages as well as for phonologists and The Busa-English, English-Busa dictionary was Etymology, synonyms and variants are given morphologists interested in sound processes and compiled by the author in Nigeria over a 12 year as appropriate, with the etymology showing word structure phenomena. The description is period while translating the Bible into Busa. It significant historical borrowing from Dendi. theory-independent, which guarantees a wide and forms a trilogy together with the simultaneously Comparison of Boko words with the equivalent long-term accessibility to the unique features of published Boko and Bokobaru dictionaries. This words in the Bokobaru and Busa dictionaries this language. cluster of languages, of which the grammar was illustrates consonant weakening, elision and published by Lincom Europa in 1998, belongs to significant changes in the tone systems. ISBN 3 89586 820 5. LINCOM Studies in the Eastern subdivision of the Mande language African Linguistics 59. 140pp. USD 74.90 / family. ISBN 3 89586 627 X. Languages of the EUR 60.90 / GBP 51.80. 2004. The database is root based, so that any word World/Dictionaries 24. 325pp. USD 109.80 / that begins with a lexeme root will appear as a EUR 89.30 / GBP 75.90. 2004.

subentry under that lexeme. The 6600 head and The Silozi Clause subwords are written in bold Busa orthography, followed by phonetic representations, including The Boko/Busa A Study of the Structure and tones and variants, a part of speech label and Distribution of its Constituents glosses in English. Language Cluster Etymology, synonyms and variants are given KASHINA KASHINA as appropriate, with the etymology showing ROSS JONES significant historical borrowing from Dendi. This work provides a study of the structure and Comparison of Busa words with the equivalent Boko/Busa is a cluster of three closely related distribution of constituents of the clause in Silozi, words in the Boko and Bokobaru dictionaries south-eastern Mande languages or dialects spoken a Bantu language which is spoken by about illustrates consonant weakening, elision, and in Benin and Nigeria. The aim of this research has

114 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 AFRICAN LANGUAGES been to describe the phonological, tonological, morphological and grammatical system and Pratiques et Attitudes Phonologie et morpho- processes which occur within the Boko/Busa language cluster, using the approaches of modern Linguistiques dans syntaxe du mono linguistics to analyse and present the material. The Langue oubanguienne du Congo R.D. l’Afrique d’Aujourd’hui: author, Ross Jones, has had twenty eight years of practical experience with these languages in Bible Le Cas du Sénégal. ROGER KAMANDA-KOLA translation and literacy. As Boko is the major Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale language of the cluster, as well as the most stable MAWEJA MBAYA L'ouvrage décrit le fonctionnement des systèmes and complex, the basic description is of Boko, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis phonologique et morpho-syntaxique du mono, l'un with variations in the related languages of the (Sénégal) des nombreux parlers du Nord-Ouest du Congo cluster, Bokobaru and Busa, being described as (R.D.) qui font partie du groupe linguistique they occur. The sources of evidence and authority L’objectif de Pratiques et Attitudes Linguistiques banda. La description est menée dans la consist in a thorough set of language examples. dans l’Afrique d’Aujourd’hui : Le Cas du Sénégal perspective structuraliste et s'inspire des travaux Tone is both lexical and grammatical and is an est de décrire, en s’appuyant sur le contexte de Claire Grégoire et de ceux de D. Creissels; plus integral part of these languages. Tone changes in sénégalais, les nouveaux contacts et les divers particulièrement de D. Creissels en ce qui verbs and subject pronouns express aspect and changements intervenus dans les pratiques et les concerne la syntaxe. mood, while the final tone on NP items attitudes linguistiques en Afrique aujourd’hui. La phonologie est entendue au sens differentiates specific from non-specific items. S’il est vrai que les périodes coloniale et générativiste du terme. Elle inclut deux niveaux de Tone also plays a major role in the complex and postcoloniale ont vu trop de prestige accordé aux description traditionnellement considérés comme pervasive system of logophoricity. The langues européennes (langues officielles du deux composantes grammaticales autonomes : introduction puts these languages in their setting gouvernement et de l’administration) au détriment l'étude de la pertinence des éléments phoniques et by looking at the ethnography, language des langues africaines, la période allant des années l'étude des alternances entre phonèmes ou classification and historical background, while 90 jusqu’à nos jours, connaît quant à elle des tonèmes. La morpho-syntaxe est abordée selon la appendices give lists of lexical material, including changements profonds dans les pratiques et les démarche qui consiste, dans un premier temps, à an extensive list of loanwords and some sample attitudes linguistiques en Afrique. délimiter et identifier les mots ou les catégories texts. Au Sénégal, plus précisément, plus de vingt grammaticales à partir de phrases syntaxiquement langues locales cohabitent non seulement avec le achevées et préalablement définies. La structure ISBN 3 929075 97 0. LINCOM Studies in African français, mais aussi avec l’arabe et, plus morphologique des unités délimitées et identifiées Linguistics 30. 346 pp. USD 113.50 / EUR 92.30 / récemment, avec l’anglais. Les études récentes ont est décrite dans un deuxième temps. Deux GBP 78.50. 1998. montré que: catégories grammaticales majeures sont 1. le français, jadis clé de la promotion sociale en distinguées : le nom et le verbe. La notion Afrique et marque de distinction individuelle, grammaticale de nom provient de l'existence Perguntas de Constituinte n’est plus le moyen de communication le plus d'unités, les noms propres de personnes, qui utilisé, même chez les jeunes instruits. Dans les em Ibibio e a Teoria de Tipo préalablement à toute structuration linguistique, contextes non formels, ces derniers recourent réfèrent à des individus. 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An ethnographic description of the Ibibio numeral and interrogative. Verbal forms: present, people, emphasizing the social organization of this durative, recent past, interior past, subjunctive, Tonologie du ngangela West African culture, is presented in the first imperative and negative. As syntax only 56 variété de Menongue (Angola) chapter of the study, with the purpose of avoiding conversation-sentences are given with French that the strictly linguistic information on the Ibibio translation. Lexicon Kiholu - French: (c. 900 (those that speak the Ibibio language) remained items). Lexicon French - Kiholu: (c. 900 items). JACKY MANIACKY isolated. (written in French) Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central

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The C.A.R., 20,000 in Chad and Cameroon). un index français – samba leko et un conte References will lead the reader to up-to-date The grammar consists of ten chapters and is illustrent cette description. discussions of Bantu and of theoretical issues. followed by a complete and interlinearised This is a concise, informative and very traditional folkstory told by Daniel Tambe. Many ISBN 3 89586 726 8. LINCOM Studies in readable glossary which promises to be both an examples throughout this thesis come from this African Linguistics 56. 452 pp. USD 117.20 / indispensable resource tool and a touchstone for EUR 95.30 / GBP 81.00. 2004. lively discussion. story, which displays many features discussed.

Other examples come from a variety of sources in ISBN 3 89586 702 0. LINCOM Studies in the author's extensive data collection. They are Barawa Lexicon African Linguistics 55. 122pp. USD 84.50 / referred to by the codes in brackets. EUR 68.70 / GBP 58.40. 2002. The introductory first chapter looks at the A Wordlist of Eight South Bauchi (West historical and ethnic background of the speakers Chadic) Languages: Boghom, Buli, Dott, of the Kabba language, discusses its linguistic Geji, Jimi, Polci, Sayanci and Zul classification and provides an overview of its Introduction to typological features. Chapter two deals with the RONALD COSPER African Linguistics sound system, which includes implosives, affricates, homorganic prenasalised obstruents, Saint Mary's University, Canada, and NGESSIMO MUTAKA syllabic nasal consonants, nasalised vowels and Bayero University Kano, Nigeria vowel harmony. Syllabic structures and Université de Yaoundé I

The South Bauchi group of languages, spoken in phonotactics are also discussed in this chapter. With the collaboration of PIUS NGWA TAMANJI Tonal patterns are investigated, exemplified and northern Nigeria is the least studied subfamily of discussed in chapter three. Kabba has three level West Chadic. The body of this document consists An Introduction to African Linguistics is a book tones and four contour tones. Bound morphemes of a lexicon of 852 words from eight South which deals with the main features of languages and morphological processes are explored in Bauchi (Barawa) languages: Jimi, Zul, Geji, as found mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and more chapter four. A detailed analysis and discussion of Polci, Dott, Sayanci, Buli and Boghom. Most of particularly in Bantu languages. subject, object and possessive pronouns is these languages could be called endangered; only As mentioned by one of the authors, “one included. Alienable possession plays an important Sayanci, the largest, is relatively secure, and some motivation for writing the book is that, during my part. Chapter five deals with the nominal of the languages have only a few hundred graduate studies, I always wished I had access to morphology found of the Kabba language. It speakers. Nearly all speakers are bilingual in an introductory book of this nature. Very often, includes a discussion of noun phrases, noun Hausa, which has had a considerable influence on Doug Pulleyblank or Larry Hyman would refer collocations, adjectival structures, numerical the lexicons and grammars of these languages. me to certain phonological processes found in expressions, reciprocity, logophoric pronouns, For scholars interested in comparative some African languages, and I thought it would be reflexives, relative pronouns, conjunctions, case linguistics, these languages should be of maximal helpful if students of African linguistics could markers and adpositions. Chapter six contains an use, as they represent geographic extremes of the have easier access to such examples in an exemplified discussion of semantic and family. introductory book on African Linguistics. My grammatical verb categories, transitivity, tense- Items in the lexicon are organized according to hope is that this book will prove interesting not aspect-mood and adverbial expressions. Basic semantic and syntactic categories: semantic only for most linguistics students but also for any clause structures are illustrated and discussed in categories of nouns are followed by adjectives, linguist or any linguistic sympathizer who will chapter seven, which includes declarative, numerals, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions find in this book precious information scattered in interrogative, negative, imperative and and a number of categories of verb. This various published and unpublished materials not exclamatory clauses. Copula clauses and verbless organization reflects a cognitive structure useful easily accessible.” clauses are also discussed. Chapter eight deals in fieldwork with native speakers, and academic Maybe, what renders the book most unique is with complex predicate structures, such as and general users of these wordlists should also the three chapters on Phonology: chapter 3: non serialisation, consecutivisation and find this topical mode of presentation helpful. tonal phonological processes, chapter 4: grammaticalisation. Chapter nine investigates and The wordlists are preceded by an introduction and tonological processes, chapter 5: exercises on discusses complex clause structures, such as outline of the phonologies of the languages.

116 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 AFRICAN LANGUAGES phonological processes. These chapters basically complement. Included in this section are a number of special encapsulate the richness of African phonology The Lexicon contains appr. 500 Zina Kotoko structures and expressions. In general, the made available in one single introductory volume. items. description contained in these sections attempts to Other chapters are equally interesting. Thus be broad in scope, and includes explanations of chapter 8, “Notes on the historical linguistics of ISBN 3 89586 452 8 LINCOM Studies in how to express common concepts (e.g. existence, African languages,” provides background material African Linguistics 54. 200pp. USD 90.70 / impersonal expression, comparison, superlative, on African languages; chapter 7, “the Syntax of EUR 73.70 / GBP 62.70. 2002. etx.) as well as interesting aspects of Mbay syntax African languages,” provides an easy-to- which transcend individual categories (eg. the understand explanation of syntactic terms and notion of 'standing/sitting/lying'). their illustrations through various African Cliticization, Movement, Section eight deals with the rules governing languages. This chapter is a contribution of Pius the mandatory subject and object reference N. Tamanji together with the sections on “lexical and Second Position affices. The grammatical descriptions are expansion” in chapter 10, “verbal extensions,”and accompanied by abundant examples, and in many THELBERT ARI “tense, aspect and mood” in chapter 6. E E. K cases word for word translation are given in Tokyo University of Foreign addition to a more conventional translation. ISBN 3 89586 675 X. LINCOM Handbooks in Studies, Japan (ILCAA) Linguistics 16. 320pp. USD 112.30 / EUR ISBN 3 89586 173 1. LINCOM Studies in 91.30 / GBP 77.60. 2000. Investigation shows that some issues relating to African Linguistics 14. 240pp. USD 109.80 / cliticization in Degema are closely tied to EUR 89.30 / GBP 75.90. 1997. movement. Put differently, there appear to be Bata phonology: certain facts about cliticization in Degema that may not be easily explained without appealing to a a reappraisal movement analysis. For example, how do clitics The Source of form a phonological unit with their hosts? What is Degema Clitics RAYMOND BOYD (ed.) the origin of the subject NP that appears before LACITO, CNRS the subject clitic? How do subject clitics get the ETHELBERT E. KARI grammatical features associated with the subject? This study deals with the phonology of a Nigerian How is second position defined in Degema, since Tokyo University of Foreign (Adamawa State) Central Chadic language, Bata, it appears that some clitics also occupy second Studies, Japan (ILCAA) of which another dialect is known as "Bachama". position? How do clitics in Degema get placed in In recent years, studies of Central and Eastern second position? The source of Degema clitics has not been given Chadic languages have revealed that, in many These are some of the questions Kari will any attention. The popular view about the source cases, the vowel system may be conceived as attempt to answer in this study with regard to clitic of clitics in human language is that they developed founded on phonological contrasts of height and placement in Degema. This work is organized from free lexical items, or from syntactic length alone. Phonetic frontness and backness are into five sections. Section 1 discusses subject and categories that must appear without accent in attributable to the influence of separate, non-subject clitics; section 2 examines various languages, and may become affixes at a neighboring palatal and labial features. Other cliticization and two movement operations – later stage (Zwicky 1977, Hopper and Traugott languages in the same branches seem, however, to subject and verb movements; section 3 looks at 1993, Bybee 1985, Spencer 1991, among others). have vowel systems which have incorporated cliticization and the ‘second position’ In this study, we will look critically at these views front/back contrasts. The case of Bata is phenomenon; section 4 considers clitics as that do not seem to account for the source of interesting because, although it apparently belongs functional heads, and their implication for clitic clitics in Degema, and establish the source of to the latter group, it might also be analyzed as doubling, while section 5 is the conclusion. Degema clitics from language-internal and belonging to the former. language-external pieces of evidence. This work ISBN 3 89586 363 7 . Languages of the World is divided into seven sections. Section 1 provides ISBN 3 89586 364 5. Languages of the World 26. 42pp. USD 37.00 / EUR 30.10 / GBP 25.60. some background information that is necessary for 27. 60pp. USD 50.60 / EUR 41.10 / GBP 34.90. 2001. the discussion on clitics in Degema; section 2 2002. considers some general views about the source of clitics; in section 3 we make some assumptions A Reference Grammar about the source of Degema clitics; in section 4 Some aspects of the we attempt to establish the source of Degema of Mbay clitics from language external facts; we examine grammar of Zina Kotoko deaffixation in other languages in section 5; a JOHN KEEGAN modification of Hopper and Traugott’s BODIL KAPPEL SCHMIDT, DAVID unidirectional cline is proposed in section 6, we DDEN AND NDERS OLMBERG A Reference Grammar of Mbay provides a solid conclude the work in section 7. O , A H introduction to the grammar of Mbay, a Central- This volume contains articles on aspects of Sudanic language of the Sara family described in a ISBN 3 89586 451 X. Languages of the World phonology, morphology, and syntax of Zina Dictionary of Mbay by the same author. It is based 25. 60pp. USD 44.40 / EUR 36.10 / GBP 30.70. Kotoko, a Chadic language of far northern on extensive field research among the Mbay in 2001. Cameroon. The introduction presents an overview Chad during the period data for the dictionary was of the language, providing background collected. The grammar is divided into eight Essai de description information for the articles. David Odden sections. describes verbal tone, which involves The first five describe the phonology and morphophonologique phonological interaction between an underlying morphology. First, segmental phonology is ’melody’ for each tense-aspect and the presence of described, and a thorough explanation and du Yisangu depressor consonants in the stem. justification of the writing system is provided, Berit-Anne Bals and Helene Norgaard followed by a description of tone and vowel Langue bantu du Gabon Andreassen examine reduplication in progressive length. The second section treats morpheme verbs and show that there are two different structure, with emphasis on the canonical and PIERRE ONDO-MEBIAME reduplicative constituents, whose selection depend harmonic constraints which limit the shape of Université Libre de Bruxelles on the presence of ’infixed’ object pronouns. Mbay morphemes. The inflectional paradigms are Mark Andrew de Vos gives an overview of described in the third section, and this is followed Le yisangu, que les locuteurs reconnaissent sous noun morphology with special attention to plural in the fourth by an explanation of the l’appellation de ‘isangu‘ ou ‘yisangu‘, est une formation and focus constructions. Girma A. phonological change associated with inflection, langue par1ée au Gabon. Le yisangu est parlé par Demeke analyzes the complex system of with emphasis on a description of the different les Masangus, habitants de l‘une des régions les definiteness and agreement in DPs and shows how types of tonal change. Section five treats the plus montagneuses du Gabon. Le yisangu est une agreement works with different classes of nominal limited word formation processes found in the langue bantu que Guthrie (1948) range dans la modifiers. language. zone B, plus précisément dans le Shira-Punu Florin Oprina gives an overview of VP syntax, Section six through eight treat Mbay syntax. Group (B.40). analyzing relations between particular verb forms Section six describes the structure and uses of the La première partie est un exposé sur and objects constructions, negation, and aspect. different categories and subcategories, and l‘identification, la définition, le classement des Bodil Kappel Schmidt describes the includes descriptions of alienable/inalienable phonèmes vocaliques et consonantiques, l’étude tense/aspect system with an analysis of aspectual nouns, verb aspect, serial verbs, adjectival uses of des tons et la présentation des structures forms as complex, complementary to ’pure’ tense verbs and nouns, and the various uses of syllabiques. La seconde partie dégage les règ1es forms. ideophones, specifiers and compleentizers. qui permettent de passer du niveau Anders Holmberg gives a description and Section seven deals with word order, morphophonologique au niveau phonologique, ou analysis of prepositions and PPs as complex describing sentence order as well as the structure des morphèmes aux phonèmes. La troisième constructions, consisting of a Relator with a Place of the noun, verb and prepositional phrase. partie, enfin, étudie le système des classes et les

The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 117 AFRICAN LANGUAGES différentes catégories de mots que connaît la 'how to make a mud house' and 'how to make Aperçu sur la morpho- langue. Ce sont notamment : les substantifs, les soap'), and a few descriptions of cultural référents, les verbes, les mots hybrides, et les mots phenomena (e.g. 'lion-men' and 'returned spirits'). syntaxe de la langue isangu qui n’entrent dans aucune de ces quatre catégories The texts are written with the same (Bantou, B42) principales (“les mots divers“). transcription used in the Dictionary of Mbay, and

there is a morpheme-by-morpheme translation of DANIEL FRANCK IDIATA ISBN 3 89586 669 5. LINCOM Studies in each line followed by a more colloquial African Linguistics 49. 240pp. USD 109.80 / translation. Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université EUR 89.30 / GBP 75.90. 2000. Omar Bongo, Libreville

ISBN 3 929075 93 8. Languages of the World/ Préface par Bernard Comrie Studies on Voice through Text Collections 16. 100 pp. USD 73.70 / EUR 59.90 / GBP 50.90. 1999. L'étude présentée dans le cadre de cette Verbal Extensions in Nine publication porte sur la descrption de la Bantu Languages Spoken in morphosyntaxe de la langue isangu, une langue Isixhosa Tonology: bantoue du nord-ouest parlée au Gabon par le Cameroon, Gabon, DRC and An Optimal Domains Theory peuple des Masangu (ou Massango, selon Rwanda Analysis l'appelletion administrative). Partant du questionnaire proposé par le Professeur Comrie (Lingua descriptive studies : questionnaire, DANIEL FRANCK IDIATA & GABRIEL FARIDA CASSIMJEE Benedict College Lingua, 42, 1977), nous y développons trois MBA grands aspects : la phonologie, la syntaxe et la

morphologie. En ce qui concerne la phonologie, y University Omar Bango, Libreville; This book provides both a comprehensive sont décrits les systèmes vocaliques et Université de Yaoundé 1 description of the tonal system of the verb in consonantiques et une large part réservée à l'étude Isixhosa (a language belonging to the Nguni des schèmes tonals des nominaux et des verbaux. This collection of papers offers a description of subgroup of the Bantu language family) and a En ce qui concerne la syntaxe, nous avons voice through verbal extensions in nine Bantu detailed exemplification of the Optimal Domains développé de nombreux aspects tels que les types languages spoken in Cameroon, Gabon, the Theory approach to tone in general and Bantu de phrases, avec une place de choix réservée aux Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. The tone in particular. A set of universal constraints phrases interrogatives ; la subordination ; la languages in question are Bafut, La'mnso, Kom, governing the behavior of High tone is proposed détermination ; la coordination ; la négation ; Isangu, Ngiemboon, Ngwe, Havu, Duala and and motivated on the basis of a survey of the l'anaphore ; les processus de mise en valeur et la Kinyarwanda. For all papers data were collected major tonal phenomena in several representative passivisation. Pour ce qui est de la morphologie, on the basis of the same questionnaire and the Bantu languages. This set of universal constraints une place d'honneur revient à l'étude des classes same theoretical basis. then provides the basis for the development of an nominales, tant sur un plan synchronique que Most work on this subject deals with analysis of the tone pattern of Isixhosa as diachronique. L'essentiel de la morphologie morphologic aspect of the voice in Bantu manifested in the verbal system. While much of verbale est aussi traitée, avec une place importante languages; this volume attempts to include a the tonology of Isixhosa can be insightfully réservée au problème du temps et de l'aspect et morphosyntactic issue whereby voice is viewed analyzed in terms of the central notion of a High celui des extensions du verbe. Nous présentons en broadly as comprising all the morphological Tone Domain, the very complex effects of the so- annexe un lexique isangu-français de près de mille procedures which, operating on the level of the called depressor consonants are particularly entrées lexicales. verb, are in relation to the semantic roles challenging. The final analysis of these complex attributed to subject and object. The study of voice data requires the postulation of (a) a second type here presupposes a consideration of the systematic of domain, the Register Domain, and (b) two ISBN 3 929075 98 9. LINCOM Studies in relationships which can exist in a language, levels with different constraint rankings. An African Linguistics 32. 240pp. USD 104.20 / between verb morphology and the semantic roles extremely rich and complex set of data turns out to EUR 84.70 / GBP 72.00. 1998. attributed to subject and object. reflect the interaction of a number of well- Contents: Chapter 1: Bantu verbal extensions : motivated universal principles. This book thus a historical perspective Chapter 2: A lays the basis for further research into the Universaux versus morphophonemic study of Verbal extensions in universal tonal patterns exemplified by the many Spécificités linguistiques Bafut (Grassfields) Chapter 3: Verbal extensions Bantu languages of sub-Saharan Africa. in La'mnso (Grassfields) Chapter 4: Voice through dans l'acquisition du Verbal extensions in Isangu (B 40) Chapter 5: ISBN 3 89586 521 4. LINCOM Studies in langage chez l'enfant : Verbal extensions in Kom (Grassfields) Chapter 6: African Linguistics 29. 200 pp. USD 109.80 / Les extensions verbales en Nguiembn EUR 89.30 / GBP 75.90. 1998. le cas de la langue isangu (Grassfields) Chapter 7: Le système des (Bantou, B42) extensions verbales en Kinyarwanda (J. 60) Chapter 8: Verbal extensions in Ngwe Dictionary of Mbay (Grassfields) Chapter 9: Le système des DANIEL FRANCK IDIATA Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université extensions verbales en Havu (J. 50) Chapter 10: JOHN KEEGAN compiled with Le système des extensions verbales en Duala (A Omar Bongo, Libreville 20). NANGBAYE MARCEL and MANADJI TOLKOM BERTIN L'étude présentée dans cet ouvrage porte sur la ISBN 3 89586 716 0. LINCOM Studies in description du processus d'acquisition de la langue African Linguistics 57. 252pp. USD 100.50 / Mbay is a Central Sudanic language spoken in isangu par les enfants (en tant que langue EUR 81.70 / GBP 69.50. 2003. southern Chad near the border with Central maternelle). Le isangu est une langue bantoue du Africa. There are an estimated 80,000 speakers of nord-ouest parlée au Gabon (par le peuple des Mbay in the subprefecture of Moissala. It is a Sara Masangu). Partant du constat que l'essentiel de la Mbay Texts language, and is most closely related to Sar théorie en acquisition du langage par les enfants Tales, Recipes, Games (Madjingay), Ngam and Nar. The work is based est basé sur les langues indo-européennes, cet on materials gathered in Chad during the periods ouvrage sur une langue "nouvelle" apporte une and Riddles 1977-1979 and 1988-1990. lumière sur un domaine très peu exploité : les The dictionary attempts to provide a langues bantoues. Cette étude, sur une langue DJIBLO NGARRAMADJI, NANGBAYE description of the Mbay language and the people ayant un système morphosyntaxique très riche, est MARCEL, YANKAL KINDOMKOUL, who speak it as viewed from the lexicon. The une contribution intéressante dans le débat sur la SERGE KOIDERE, SOUANGAR MAHAMAT scope is broad, incorporating more information, place des universaux et celles des spécificités both linguistic and cultural, than is commonly NGONSAY, M. DJIMADOUMNAR. Edited linguistiques dans l'acquisition du langage chez contained in a work of this type. The goal has l'enfant. Il développe quatre aspects : les classes and Translated by JOHN M. KEEGAN been to describe the lexicon in a fashion that is not nominales (préfixes nominaux et morphèmes only acurate, but also revealing of how the words d'accord), les extensions verbales, les expressions This collection of Mbay texts was gathered during are used by the Mbay in their daily life. In locatives et la prise de perspective et le the periods 1977-1979 and 1988-1990 as part of addition to the meanings, expressions, and idioms développement de la construction passive. the research for the Dictionary of Mbay and A found to be associated with a word, sample Pour chacun de ces aspects, un bilan théorique Reference Grammar of Mbay by the same author. sentences illustrating that meaning in a typical est élaboré avec beaucoup de détails et une The collection contains approximately 30 texts of context have been provided. comparaison des résultats est systématiquement various types. It includes a selection of typical Mbay tales and riddles, a few recipes for typical ISBN 3 89586 052 2. Languages of the faite ; cela pour montrer en quoi les données de la foods (e.g. 'boule' and 'long sauce'), descriptions World/Dictionaries 03. 610pp. 300 langue isangu contribuent plus à l'hypothèse des of games (e.g. 'jacks' and 'warriors'), several 'how illustrations. USD 157.80 / EUR 128.30 / GBP universaux en acquisition du langage ou à celle to' descriptions of typical Mbay activities (e.g. 109.00. 1996. des spécificités linguistiques. Une réflexion sur la

118 ♦ LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 AFRICAN LANGUAGES question de savoir au juste quel est le rôle des still remains to some extent open to discussion, en général. enfants dans l'évolution diachronique des langues despite years of more or less concentrated and est aussi menée à partir des données isangu. concerted efforts. Most such lectures were subject RAYMOND BOYD Introduction - PAULETTE to further discussions in the Czech Grant Agency ROULON Le gbaya - FRANCE CLOAREC-HEISS le ISBN 3 89586 546 X LINCOM Studies in Research Team 403-96- 0787 and the banda-linda - PASCAL BOYELDIEU le yakoma - African Linguistics 34. 240pp. USD 111.10 / Groupement de Recherche Européen No 1172 du MARCEL DIKI-KIDIRI le sango -RAYMOND BOYD le zande. EUR 90.30 / GBP 76.80. 1998. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, and then re-written and extended for the Les cinq chercheurs ayant contribué à ce purpose of this volume. volume appartiennent au département Langues et Les manières d'« être » et (for the complete abstract see the LINCOM Parole en Afrique Centrale du Laboratoire de webshop www.lincom.eu) Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale les mots pour le dire dans (LACITO), du Centre National de la Recherche les langues d'Afrique ISBN 3 89586 938 4. LINCOM Studies in Scientifique (CNRS, France). Chacun a effectué, African Linguistics 47. 240pp. USD 105.40 / au cours de plusieurs années, une étude Centrale EUR 85.70 / GBP 72.90. 2000. approfondie de la langue qu'il décrit. Collectif

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This que les auteurs appellent non processive qui exprime work provides the first comprehensive study of PASCALE PIRON les opérations logiques correspondant, en français, au verb tonology in Setswana, a language of the Université Libre de Bruxelles domaine couvert par les verbes "être", "exister" et Sotho group spoken in Botswana and South "(y) avoir". Cette prédication repose, selon la Africa. The author, a major contributor to general Cette étude est répartie en deux volumes. Le procédure mise en œuvre pour conférer à un élément and African linguistics, and his two co-authors premier volume comprend l'introduction, non verbal un statut de prédicat, sur trois modèles develop a domain-based approach to Setswana l'historique des classifications et la première partie syntaxiques dont les langues étudiées font un usage tonology which is particularly relevant to recent de l'analyse des données lexicales. Le second différent. Sur le plan sémantique, cette prédication a developments in the theoretical study of tone. It is volume contient la suite de l'analyse des données le monopole de l'expression des différentes nuances shown that most tonal alternations observed in the lexicales, une discussion de la méthode du champ notionnel d'être, (valeurs existentielle, morphology of the Setswana verb can be lexicostatistique, les commentaires des résultats identificatrice, présentative, équative et situatives). described as expansions or retractions of high tone lexico-statistiques, la conclusion, la bibliographie, Un index permet de se repérer dans l'ensemble des domains, but that segmentally and tonally empty un index des langues et une annexe avec la concepts techniques utilisés. L'ouvrage peut syllables must be posited in underlying matrice de similarité lexicale. intéresser non seulement les étudiants de ce groupe representations in order to achieve an optimal de langues, mais aussi ceux qui se sentent concernés account of the tonal phenomena in question. After For more information see our par les problèmes de la description linguistique en presenting a general introduction of the webshop:www.lincom.eu Afrique ou de la typologie des langues, africaines ou framework and the language, Creissels et al. autres. provide separate chapters analyzing the tonology Vol I. ISBN 3 89586 092 1. LINCOM Studies Les six chercheurs ayant contribué à ce volume of individual tenses in the language. The result is in African Lingustics 11. 350pp. 120 sont tous membres d'une unité de recherche du a model that can be profitably applied to the maps/illustrations. USD 118.50 / EUR 96.30 / CNRS. 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405/07/0277, and discussed at an international Comparative Morphology of items linking Nilo-Saharan and Afrasian (26). The workshop organised in co-operation with the last four groups are not evidence for establishment Prague Linguistic Circle in October, 2008. Data the Omotic Languages of Nilo-Saharan as a genetic family, but are from languages of differing genetic origins spoken equally important in delimiting the phylum and West of Lake Chad, be they such M. LIONEL BENDER setting it off from other phyla, a task which has sociolinguistically important languages as Kanuri, University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale not been given proper weight in the past. Hausa, Fula, Songhay, etc., or be they The book begins with a lengthy and valuable sociolinguistically minor languages from the Omotic is the least-known family in the Afrasian Introduction covering purpose and method, an Chadic, Mande or Niger-Congo genetic contexts, (=Afroasiatic or "Hamito-Semitic") phylum. No annotated list of languages genetically arranged, a served for attempts at a theoretical generalisation. book-length synthesis of the family has appeared demographic and cultural overview summary of Contents: Petr Zima Areal Features and their previously and it is not generally known that speakers, and typological and areal overviews. A Limits - Thomas Bearth Operator Second and its Omotic is a highly agglutinative family with many history of Nilo-Saharan studies is included and in Variations in Mande Languages - Norbert Cyffer obvious Afrasian characteristics. Omotic is a separate chapter a detailed comparison with the The Structure of the Kanuri Verb Phrase - Norbert located entirely within southwest and west only competing classification (CH. EHRET, Cyffer Non-Verbal Predication in Kanuri - The Ethiopia, on both sides of the Omo River, from forthcoming). Crux of Negation and Focus - Petr Zima The which it takes its name. Some still consder Omotic The main body of the text consists of the Mutual Interplay of the Hausa Verbal Categories not to be an independent family, but rather West establishment of proto-Nilo-Saharan segments and Expressed in the SP+VC Complexes - Herrmann Cushitic. modern reflexes, consideration of the role of Jungraithmayr The Verbal Systems of Ron, In this monograph, the author covers all nine morphology, and representation of the 359 Mushere and Tangale – Three Southwestern Omotic families in descriptive chapters as follows: reconstructed forms. Four indices allow the reader Chadic Fringe Languages - Herrmann 1. Northwest Ometo, 2. Southeast Ometo and to locate items by semantic set, English gloss, Jungraithmayr, Miroslava Holubová Ngas C'ara, 4. Gimira-Yem (Janjero)-Kefoid, 6. Dizoid, reconstructed head-forms in alphabetical order, (Angas): The Verbal System - Rudolf Leger 7. Aroid, 8. Mao. Chs. 3 and 5 are analytic and selected secondary reconstructions under Verbal Classes in the Southern Bole-Tangale chapters covering preceding chapters and Ch. 9 is head-forms. Languages - Henning Schreiber Areal Features an overall analysis, summary, and conclusions. All ISBN 3 89586 045 X. LINCOM Handbooks in and Language Contact: The Volta Basin as a varieties having sufficient documentation (about Linguistic Convergence Area? - Anne Storch How Linguistics 06. 270pp. 3 maps. USD 118.50 / 30 in number) are covered, along with notes on EUR 96.30 / GBP 81.90. 1997. to Keep Languages Apart: Chadic and Jukunoid others. in Contact - Georg Ziegelmeyer Areal Features Sources are all available published sources in Northern Nigeria – Towards a Linguistic Area - which contain significant linguistic material, many Ulrike Zoch Hausa in Kumasi – an Overview. 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CHIA: Vocabulary Kajor (Ziguinchor) number, and case; demonstratives; interrogatives; grading. Ch. 5. A. OLADELE: Grading Sentence nouns, including species and the categories Patterns and Structures in Yoruba & Related applying to pronouns; verbal TMA (tense-mode- Languages. Ch. 6. J. OGWANA: Grading Sentence FALLOU NGOM aspect) system; copulas and connecters; nominal Patterns: Swahili. Ch. 7. E.N. CHIA: Measurement University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and verbal derivations. In the comparative of Text Difficulty. Ch. 8. E.N. CHIA: Summary analysis, the author surveys grammatical Guide on Readability.

formatives by family and indicates potential proto- This book provides a basic account of the ISBN 3 89586 030 1. Linguistics Edition 09. phonological traits of Mandinkakan as spoken in forms where possible. Conclusions include remarks on the sub-classification of Omotic and 150pp. USD 73.70 / EUR 59.90 / GBP 50.90. Senegal and the Republic of Guinea Bissau. The 1996. book describes the articulation and realization of the position of Omotic in the Afrasian phylum. the sound units of the language and their The book contains about 250 pages including phonemic realization. Mandinkakan belongs to the Notes, References, Map. It is to be followed by a Madi-English Dictionary second volume on Omotic phonology and lexicon. Mande language family, which in turn belongs to the larger Niger-Congo phylum. The language is widely spread in West-Africa. ISBN 3 89586 251 7. LINCOM Studies in MAIRI BLACKINGS Mande languages are spoken by over 15 million African Linguistics 19. 250 pp. USD 118.50 / University of Strathclyde people in the following west-African states EUR 96.30 / GBP 81.90. 2000. (Platiel,1978): Mali, Mauritania, Benin, Senegal, Madi is a Central Sudanic (Nilo Saharan) Togo, Niger, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea language with a quarter of a million speakers in Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Niger, Ghana, Ivory The Nilo-Saharan Sudan and Uganda. It is characterised by Coast and Burkina Faso. Nowadays, Mandinkakan loanwords across a geopolitical divide (Arabic in is one of the major languages used both by Languages Sudan, Swahili in Uganda, and English and Italian individuals with different historical and linguistic in both countries). Thus the lexicon of Madi background, and by the radio stations in The M. LIONEL BENDER reflects in part the socio-cultural and political Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau. University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale contacts of the Madi people. Despite the important scope of the language in The core part of the dictionary has 5000 entries. these countries, its sound system is not well The Nilo-Saharan Phylum is the most Each entry begins with a phonetic transcription of studied and practical work dealing with its controversial outcome of Greenberg’s genetic a Madi word, followed by its representation in pronunciation and phonemic inventory is rare. classification of African languages dating from standard orthography, its word class, and English This book aims at filling that gap. Thus it provides 1963. It combines a number of previous “isolates“ glosses. Many entries also include derived or a detailed description of the sound system of two and its coherence as against the other phyla inflected words, idioms, and example sentences. varieties of Mandinkakan spoken in Senegal and (Afrasian, Niger-Congo, and Khoisan) has not Alternative pronunciations and spellings are in Guinea Bissau based upon field work data been satisfactorily demonstrated. In this volume, given, and dialectal variants. Loanwords are collected in Ziguinchor, a place where the two the author undertakes the demonstration, taking as indicated, and a source word is suggested. varieties coexist. The first chapter provides a a starting point major groupings he established in This dictionary improves on a short dictionary detailed description of the Mandinkakan previous morphological comparisons and then of Madi by Fr. John Ferrazin (1995), which uses phonemic system (consonant and vowel system). examining a lexical data base of over 600 items the standard orthography and does not represent The second chapter focuses on the phonotactics of from all the documented languages. The large the full range of vowels or the tones. The author is the language (acceptable consonantal clusters, Central Sudanic and East Sudanic families are a native speaker of the language, and the research syllable types etc.). Finally, the book provides two represented by reconstructed forms from previous for the dictionary has also included work with Mandinkakan texts based upon the two varieties and forthcoming publications respectively. other native speakers. described and their English translation. The outcome is a set of 359 reconstructed items divided among Nilo-Saharan isoglosses ISBN 3 89586 892 2. Languages of the ISBN 3 89586 947 3. LINCOM Studies in (174 in number), isoglosses for subfamilies (83), World/Dictionaries 25. 120 pp. USD 77.40 / African Linguistics 44. 100pp. USD 77.40 / symbolic forms (21), areal items (35), items EUR 62.90 / GBP 53.50. 2000. EUR 62.90 / GBP 53.50. 2000. linking Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo (30), and

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Ethnographie et Vocabulaire l'Ouémé au sud Bénin et des Cultes Vodun, subgroup, spoken by 25 000 people in central vodoun. Vingt-neuf textes oraux sont proposés. Senegal, in and around the town of Thiès. The aim Religieux des Cultes Vodoun Ce sont des mythes qui symbolisent les croyances of this book is to provide a full grammatical d'une communauté. Ils témoignent des coutumes, description of Noon, from phonology and ROGER BRAND des idées, des mentalités d'un groupe donné. Ils morphology to syntax and discourse, since no Université de Tour énoncent la vie de tous les jours. Ils ont aussi une such study has previously been published on the fonction d'intégration de l'individu au groupe. Et language. This present work is slightly adapted Ce travail ethno-linguistique est une approche de ils sont une tentative d'explication du monde et from a PhD thesis in 1999 at School of Oriental la mentalité religieuse des populations du sud et montrent l'organisation sociale ainsi que tous les and African Studies, University of London. moyen Bénin au niveau des Cultes Vodoun. Ce problèmes sociaux. Ils deviennent règles de The study is divided into 11 chapters, followed travail porte sur la langue Wéménugbé qui est conduite et des préceptes moraux. by a short interlinearised text sample with a free parlée par une population de Réfugiés groupés L’étude présente ces textes oraux concernant translation. All analysis is presented with dans des villages bordant le fleuve Ouémé, Wo, les cultes Vodoun pratiqués par une population language examples from data collected in the depuis son embouchure dans le lac Nokoué et sur appelée Wéménou. L'histoire des Wéménou est Thiès area over the years 1994-1998. Some of the une profondeur de 85 kilomètres et le long de la liée aux migrations de groupes multifamiliaux features treated in this book include: a restricted rivière So. Les caractéristiques de la langue Yoruba, Aïzo, Adja-Fon et Tofinou. regressive ATR harmony; a noun class system of Wéménugbé sont celles de la langue Fungbe, Ces divers textes expliquent en partie le 6 basic classes with extensive agreement of the fongbé, d'Abomey dont les particularités fonctionnement de la société Wéménu et en determiners; a threefold locative distinction dominantes sont une très forte nasalisation et des particulier le système religieux traditionnel fondé present in determined nominals, this locative emprunts de termes aux langues des populations sur les Cultes Vodoun. Ces récits ou mythes distinction is further elaborated in the Gun , Goun, de Porto-Novo, des populations Aïzo racontent les diverses installations du Vodoun sur demonstratives; a verb system based on des villages sur la rivière So et des population la terre ainsi que le rôle des divinités auprès des derivational and conjugational affixation; serial Yoruba. Elle est appelée aussi Gungbe, goungbé, hommes. Les textes présentés situent les Wéménu and reduplicative sentence types; a short de l'Ouémé. Elle appartient au groupe des langues en relation avec le divin, l'inconnaissable à travers presentation some of the major dialect differences Kwa. cinq groupes de Vodoun. in Noon. Il est présenté sous la forme d’un lexique de ISBN 3 89586 685 7. Languages of the plus de 1350 termes qui replace la vie religieuse ISBN 3 89586 628 8. LINCOM Studies in World/Text Collections 19. 100pp. USD 72.50 liée aux Cultes Vodoun des Wéménu dans son African Linguistics 40. 240pp. USD 112.30 / / EUR 58.90 / GBP 50.10. 2000. cadre existentiel et réaliste des sociétés de EUR 91.30 / GBP 77.60. 2000. l’Afrique de l’ouest. Ce lexique ethnographique est mis sous une forme limitée et comporte uniquement les termes en langue Wéménugbé et Aspects of the une définition française. L’intéressant est qu’il Grammars aborde la réalité religieuse des Cultes Vodoun. Grammar of Kukú

ISBN 3 89586 684 9. Languages of the Aspects of Dagbani KEVIN BRETONNEL COHEN World/Dictionaries 26. 160pp.USD 83.30 / Ohio State University EUR 67.70 / GBP 57.60. 2000. Grammar With special emphasis Kukú is a previously undescribed southeastern Les classes nominales et on phonology and morphology Nilotic language of the Bari family. It is spoken in southern Sudan and northern Uganda. Kukú leur semantisme dans les KNUT J. OLAWSKY has a wide variety of verbal affixes. These affixes langues Bantu du nord- are involved in a number of vowel harmony and This study constitutes a synchronic description of tone assignment patterns. In this grammar sketch, ouest Dagbani, as spoken in the Northern Region of particular attention is paid to the qualitative Ghana. The work gives an overview of a little- morpheme, which functions quite differently in D.F. IDIATA, M. LEITCH, P. ONDO- known Gur language in which various aspects of Kukú than in other Nilotic languages. In Kukú its MEBIAME & J. P. REKANGA lexicon, syntax, morphology, and phonology are distribution, both with respect to the verbs on characterised. Special emphasis is put on the which it can appear and the aspects in which it La question du sémantisme des classes nominales description of phonology and morphology. One must appear, is related to a contrast between dans le système bantu fascine les profanes aussi section discusses the number inflection of telicity and atelicity. If the performance of the bien que les chercheurs. Mais dans la plupart des nominals, supported by psycholinguistic evidence verb has a potential end-point, and if the aspect is travaux, le sujet est abordé dans des termes si drawn from experiments with Dagbani speakers. completive, then these conditions are marked by ambigus qu’on ne sait pas toujours ce qui est en This presumably reflects one of the first trials to the presence of the qualitative morpheme. cause, et on y confond souvent les niveaux explore the morphological structure of an African The syntax section focuses on problems in the d’analyse (diachronique et synchronique). language by means of experiments. distribution of the complementizers and in the use Le présent ouvrage, qui est une contribution de The largest part of the work is dedicated to the of two copula-like elements, one of which is quatre linguistes, clôt définitivement le débat sur phonology of Dagbani. The sections on tone are of clearly verbal and the other of which is a particle. le mythique sémantisme des classes nominales particular interest, as they represent one of the few The phonological section of this description is dans les langues bantu actuelles, du moins celles attempts to characterise the tonology of a Gur based on traditional elicitation from a consultant. du nord-ouest. Pour ce faire, les contributeurs language. Dagbani displays a number of The morphological and syntactic sections also décrivent et analysent, en se fondant sur des interesting phenomena of tonal interaction of draw heavily from texts of various types, ranging calculs statistiques précis, la corrélation entre various kinds which are ilustrated by numerous from traditional songs to electronic mail. affixes de classes et contenu sémantique dans huit examples. The data are the result of various langues bantu des zones A, B et C parlées au fieldtrips by the author. Where possible, frequency ISBN 3 89586 276 2. LINCOM Studies in Cameroun (Mmala, groupe A 60), en république distributions and other statistical information are African Linguistics 25. 220pp. USD 88.20 / du Congo (Babole, groupe C 10) et au Gabon given in order to illustrate how representative a EUR 71.70 / GBP 60.90. 2000. (Fang-ntumu, groupe A 75 ; Myene-nkomi, phenomenon is. groupe B10 ; Ikota, groupe B 20 ; Pove, groupe B The systematic description of Dagbani 30 ; Isangu, groupe B 40 et Inzebi, groupe B 50). grammar is a task which has not been undertaken Zulu so far. Though far from being complete, this ISBN 3 89586 668 7. LINCOM Studies in description of Dagbani is the most comprehensive African Linguistics 48. 180pp. USD 95.60 / linguistic work on the language. G. POULOS & S. BOSCH EUR 77.70 / GBP 66.10. 2000. University of South Africa ISBN 3 89586 638 5. LINCOM Studies in African Linguistics 41. 230pp. USD 104.20 / Zulu is a language spoken in the Republic of South Cultes Vodoun et Textes EUR 84.70 / GBP 72.00. 1999. Africa by approximately 8,34 million people Oraux des Wéménou du sud (according to the 1991 census). Zulu belongs to the South-Eastern zone of the Bantu language family, a Bénin A Descriptive family of languages that occupies an area south of an ill-defined boundary that stretches from the ROGER BRAND Grammar of Noon Cameroon area on the west coast to more or less the Université de Tour A Cangin Language of Senegal lake Victoria area and Kenya on the east coast. Languages of this family are found as far south as L'existence d'une littérature orale chez les MARIA SOUKKA the Cape area of the Republic of South Africa. Wéménou est importante et a permis une approche Zulu is now recognized as one of the 11 official de la mentalité des habitants de la vallée de Noon is a West-Atlantic language of the Cangin languages of the Republic of South Africa, with its

The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 121 AFRICAN LANGUAGES major concentration of speakers found in Morphophonologie, l’auteur tentera d’expliquer la description of the Wolof phonemic system KwaZulu/Natal province. It has traditionally been variation des morphèmes et les règles (consonant and vowel system). The second recognized as one of the languages of the so-called morphophonologiques qui s’ensuivent. chapter focuses on the nominal system of the Nguni group, others being languages such as Xhosa, La ‘Morphologie’ qui constitue la troisième language. The third chapter deals with the verbal Swati and Ndebele. In the grammatical sketch on partie du travail, décrira le système des classes qui system. The fourth chapter examines the negation Zulu an overview is given of the following constitue la catégorie grammaticale de base, ainsi forms in the language. The fifth chapter deals with linguistic aspects: que les différentes catégories de mots, les relations the basic syntactic features of Wolof. Finally, the The morphological structure of the Zulu et les fonctions des unités significatives. book provides a Wolof text with an interlinear language is provided with reference to the various Les Watalinga vivent au Zaïre, dans l’extrême translation. word categories/parts of speech, e.g. attention is nord de la “Région“ du Bord-Kivu, au Nord-Est given to basic morphological characteristics such as de la “Zone“ administrative de Beni. La présente ISBN 3 89586 616 4. Languages of the noun class categorization and the ensuing system of étude dont les premières données de la présente World/Materials 333. 112pp. USD 60.20 / concordial agreement, phenomena that permeate étude ont été récoltées à Beni (Zaïre) en 1987 et EUR 48.90 / GBP 41.60. 2003. through all the languages of this family. Other analysées à Tervuren (Belgique) en 1990-1991. important areas of linguistic research are also given attention, e.g. aspects relating to the phenomenom ISBN 3 89586 265 7. LINCOM Studies in Degema of grammaticalization, discourse pragmatics and African Linguistics 22. 280pp. USD 112.30 / typological issues. An outline of the sound system EUR 91.30 / GBP 77.60. 1998. ETHELBERT E. KARI of the language is also provided with reference to Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan the phonetic qualities of the different consonants and vowels. Specific attention is given to the Dagaare Degema is a Delta Edoid language spoken by production of "unusual" sounds such as clicks. about 50,000 people in the Degema Local Reference is also made to basic tonal issues in the A.B. BODOMO Government Area of Rivers State of Nigeria. It is language. In addition a phonemic inventory of the University of Hong Kong spoken by two autonomous communities: language is provided. Usokun-Degema and Degema Town, which have Dagaare is a Mabia language of the Gur branch of a common origin. Little work has been done on ISBN 3 89586 016 6. Languages of the the Niger-Congo language family of Africa. It is Degema compared with other Rivers State World/Materials 50. 55pp. USD 51.80 / EUR spoken mainly in northwestern Ghana by about languages. The data were collected and analysed 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1997. 1.5 million people. This grammatical sketch, between April and September 1996 when the based on the Central Dialect spoken around author was assigned the course Grammar of Jirapa, is divided into three chapters of phonology, Nigerian Language to teach. The linguistic morphology and syntax. Chapter one provides the analysis was combined with the author’s native Grammar of Old Nubian basic phonological features of the language, speaker’s intuition, and tested against the intuition including vowel harmony and tone. Chapter two of other native speakers. GERALD M. BROWNE deals with the basic morphology of nouns and The study discusses phonology (e.g. vowel University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana verbs. Chapter three sketches some syntactic harmony, prenasalised stops, tones), nominal structures of the nominal and verbal phrases. morphology (e.g., noun class prefixes, gerund, In the Middle Ages, Old Nubian was the principal These chapters are preceded by a summary of agent noun, state nouns), verbal morphology (e.g., language of the Sudan and the southern part of pertinent sociolinguistic facts about the language. complex stems, tonal behaviour of stems, tense, Egypt. The direct ancestor of the Nubian still A text with interlinear translations and a short aspect, modality, negation), and syntax (e.g., noun spoken in that area is the only indigenous African Dagaare - English vocabulary list conclude this phrases, concord in the noun phrase, co- language whose development we can follow for grammatical sketch. Basic bibliography: Bodomo, ordination, subordination, relativization, over a millennium. A. B. 1997. The Structure of Dagaare. Stanford cliticisation, serials verbs, verb-inherent The corpus of Old Nubian, which occupies Monographs in African Languages, CSLI complement sequence, focus) of Degema. The fewer than one hundred pages of continuously publications. Kennedy, Jack. 1966. The study concludes with a sample text with printed text, extends from the eighth to the Phonology of Dagaari. Institute of African interlinear translation. fifteenth century of our era, though most of the Studies, Legon, Accra. material is from the tenth to the twelfth. About ISBN 3 89586 214 2. Languages of the half of the texts are of religious content, ISBN 3 89586 250 9. Languages of the World/Materials 180. 67pp. USD 56.50 / EUR comprising translations of the Greek New World/Materials 165. 60pp. USD 51.80 / EUR 45.90 / GBP 39.00. 1997. Testament, the Septuagint and other Christian 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 2000. writings; the rest are documentary, consisting of public contracts, private letters and similar Ogbronuagum material. Wolof Belonging to the Nilo-Saharan language family, Old Nubian is written in a modified form ETHELBERT KARI of the Greek uncial alphabet, with extra characters FALLOU NGOM Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan taken from Coptic and Meroitic. The general Western Washington University characteristics of the language emerge from the Ogbronuagum is a central Delta language spoken This book provides an account of the following formula (after Hawkins): SOV / POST / by about 12,000 people in the present Degema phonological, morphological and grammatical GEN + N / N + ADJ. Local Government Area of Rivers State of traits of Wolof as spoken in Senegal. Wolof The author, Professor of the Classics and Nigeria. It is spoken by the Agum (Bukuma) belongs to the West Atlantic language family, Linguistics at the University of Illinois Community. which in turn belongs to the larger Niger-Congo (Urbana/Champaign), has published fourteen The sketch, which is the first attempt at phylum. The language is primarily spoken in books and over seventy articles on Old Nubian; providing a fairly comprehensive description of Senegal and The Gambia. About 10 million he is regarded as the World's leading authority on Ogbronuagum, is divided into six sections. people in the following West African states speak that language. Section one re-examines the phonology as it: Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and decribed by Alex (1987), and establishes more Mauritania. Nowadays, Wolof is one of the major consonants. In section two, the morphology of the ISBN 3 89586 893 0. Languages of the languages used both by individuals with different language is discussed. The noun class system as World/Materials 330. 120 pp. USD 70.00 / historical and linguistic background, and by the established by Alex (1987) is also re-examined EUR 56.90 / GBP 48.40. 2002. radio stations in The Gambia, Senegal, and and more genders than she established are found. Mauritania. The language has eight noun classes The morphology of verbs, tense aspect and and a rich inflectional morphology. Classical modality, and nominal modifiers are treated in Description grammaticale Arabic and standard French have influenced some detail. Section three is concerned with du Kitalinga Wolof. The Arabic influence is due to the fact that syntax. Here different noun phrase constructions over 80 % of Wolof speakers are Muslim. The and phenomena such as concord, co-ordination, (Langue bantu du Nord-Est du Zaïre) French influence dates back to the French subordination, relativisation, serial verb colonization of Senegal. Thus, various lexical constructions, focus and cliticisation are ANDRE MBULA PALUKU units are borrowed from these languages and are discussed. Section four is a sample text with generally adapted to the linguistic system of the interlinear translation. In section five, the history Après une introduction générale qui aborde aussi language by means of morpho-phonological rules. of the Agum people is presented. The sketch bien la situation géographique que linguistique du Despite the important scope of the language in concludes with a lexicon. Kitalinga, la première partie, intitulée Phonologie these countries, practical work dealing with its passera en revue les problèmes qui concernent les grammar is still limited. This book aims at filling voyelles, les consonnes, les séquences de that gap. Thus, it provides a detailed description ISBN 3 89586 618 0. 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noun plurality, noun phrase structure, adjectival nouns, verbs, adjectives, quantifiers and other Northern Sotho and adverbial constructions, complementation, nominal modifiers, adverbs, pronouns, and relativization, as well as focus marking are also ideophones. Bantu features such as noun classes, LOUIS J. LOUWRENS, INGEBORG M. discussed and exemplified. Other aspects of the agreement affixes, tense and aspect marking, and KOSCH & ALBERT E. KOTZÉ language that are subjected to synthesis and verbal extensions are discussed in this chapter. University of South Africa analysis are determiners (definite, indefinite, and The syntax of Chingoni is sketched in the fourth demonstrative) and quantifiers). chapter. It discusses word order and clause Amongst the immense diversity of the languages Finally, Efutu ideophones and interjections structure, and describes various syntactic of Africa one finds the Bantu languages which (primary, secondary, and volitive) are also phenomena such as agreement, negation, and number close to a thousand including dialects. discussed and exemplified. Given the data question formation. Following this description, Within the South-eastern zone of the Bantu oriented nature of Efutu Grammar, both there is a sample text with interlinear translation language family, sub-groups such as the Sotho theoretical and descriptive linguists will benefit and a short Chingoni-English word list appears at and Nguni groups, Tsonga and Venda are from it considerably the end. distinguished, Northern Sotho belongs to the ISBN 978 3 89586 673 9. Languages of the Sotho group together with Tswana and Southern World/Materials 472. 122p. USD 58.40 / EUR ISBN 3 89586 846 9. Languages of the Sotho. Geographically speakers of Northern Sotho World/Materials 425. 120pp. USD 67.50 / 47.50 / GBP 40.40. 2008. are mostly concentrated in the Northern and EUR 54.90 / GBP 46.70. 2003. North-eastern parts of the Transvaal. There are about 3,5 million mother-tongue speakers. Typologically Northern Sotho is an Lingala The Fyem Language of agglutinative language. It is characterised by a system of noun classes and concordial agreement. MICHAEL MEEUWIS Northern Nigeria Concordance is established by means of prefixal University of Antwerp elements. Tone plays an important role in DANIEL NETTLE distinguishing the lexical meaning of words, but is Lingala is a Bantu language spoken in the western Merton College, Oxford also used to determine the grammatical character and northern sections of the Democratic Republic of words. of the Congo (including its capital Kinshasa), in Fyem is spoken by a small community in the The present volume presents among others, northern Angola, and in the eastern part of the Central Highlands of Nigeria. This is a region of interesting sociolinguistic data, salient phonemic Peoples Republic of the Congo (Congo- extreme linguistic and historical complexity, few and orthographic facts, an outline of the nominal Brazzaville). In all these areas of expansion it has of whose numerous languages have been and verbal morphology, syntactic and discourse mother-tongue speakers but is at the same time described. Like many small languages in Africa related phenomena, as well as sample texts with used by others as a lingua franca. In terms of its and elsewhere, Fyem is retreating before the interlinear transcription and translation. history, Lingala is particularly known for its spread of larger tongues such as Hausa and recent appearance (late nineteenth century) and ISBN 3 929075 43 1. Languages of the English. The aim of this study is to present a the pidgin-like context of its emergence. thorough description of the language whilst it is World/Materials 30. 62pp. USD 51.80 / EUR Structurally, Lingala shares with neighboring and 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1995. still in general use. The book gives clear genetically related languages a meaning- treatments of Fyem phonology, morphology and distinctive role of tone, a vowel system consisting syntax, as well as an English-Fyem dictionary, a of seven phonemes, and a use of derivational Fyem text with analysis and translation, and a Kunama morphemes to expand the syntactic and semantic discussion of the use of the language today. There

range of verb stems. are also chapters on the history of the people and LIONEL M. BENDER However, Lingala is often viewed as an their language. Fyem belongs to the Benue-Congo Southern Illinois University anomaly in the Bantu family because of the branch of the Niger-Congo family. However, it remarkably low complexity of its nominal also shows considerable affinities in both Kunama is spoken by about 100,000 people in morphology (i.e., a limited class concord system). grammar and lexicon with the Chadic languages Eritrea. Once thought to be a "language isolate", Its verbal morphology, and in particular its which are found in the area. These affinities are Kunama is now classified as a rather divergent temporal and aspectual inflection, is nonetheless the result of historical interactions between the Nilo-Saharan language. Ethnographers have seen notoriously complex. TAM distinctions are different communities. The author uses such Chushitic-like cultural traits among the Kunama conveyed through the use of infixes, tone, and linguistic clues in conjunction with ethnohistorical and linguistically Kunama shares the SOV-type auxiliarization. At the level of syntax, Lingala is evidence to unravel the complex history of Fyem syntax of the Ethiopian (Afrasian) language area marked, among other things, by a specific way of migration, trade and inter-marriage. and has lexical influence from Semitic and forming cleft-sentences. The present volume Cushitic. The rich suprasegmental phonology of presents an overview of the phonological, ISBN 3 89586 519 2. Languages of the World/ vowel and consonant length, stress, and tone tonological, and morphological characteristics of Materials 136. 100 pp. USD 63.80 / EUR 51.90 / remains to be fully worked out. The pronominal this language, and also includes a section on the GBP 44.10. 1998. system has dual as well as sg./pl. and main syntactic patterns, as well as a sample text inclusive/exclusive distinctions, but no with morphemic glosses and a translation. grammatical gender. There are both prefixal and suffixal verbal conjugations, but these are ISBN 3 89586 595 8. Languages of the World/ Ndebele lexically distributed and quite unlike the Afrasian Materials 261. 60 pp. USD 51.80 / EUR 42.10 / aspectual use of the prefixes and suffixes. GBP 35.80. 1998. CLAIRE BOWERN AND VICTORIA The volume contains phonological and LOTRIDGE (eds.) morphological sketches, overall syntax and some Harvard University selected topics (notably nonverbal predication and A Grammar of Chingoni relative constructions), two sample text with This grammar is a sketch of the essential features morphemic and free translations, references, and a DEO NGONYANI of Ndebele grammar. Ndebele is spoken by language map of the Kunama area. Michigan State University approximately 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe

and up to another half million in the Transvaal ISBN 3 89586 072 7. Languages of the Chingoni, or Ngoni of Tanzania, is a Bantu district of the Republic of South Africa. It is a World/Materials 59. 60pp. 1 map. USD 51.80 / language (Guthrie’s N.12) spoken in Southern member of the Nguni subgroup of Bantu, along EUR 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1996. Tanzania by approximately 200,000 people. It is with Xhosa, Zulu and Swati. Data from this sketch considered part of the Rufiji language group. This were collected from a speaker of Ndebele during study is a grammatical sketch of the language Harvard University's linguistic field methods Efutu Grammar spoken around Peramiho. course in Spring 2000, taught by Dr Lisa Lavoie. The study is divided into four chapters. The dialect described is Zimbabwe Ndebele. SAMUEL GYASI OBENG Chapter One provides introductory remarks The class wrote the sketch jointly, based on Indiana University including sociolinguistic facts about the language final research papers for the course. The sketch and a brief history of the speech community. It was then edited into a manuscript and checked for Efutu, also called Awutu-Efutu or Senya is a Kwa explains why in spite of its South African Nguni consistency. Those contributing to the sketch were language spoken by about 150,000 people in the name, the language is genetically an Eastern (besides the main editors): Emily Alling, Gorm Awutu, Efutu, and Senya areas of Ghana’s Central African language. Chapter Two presents the Amand, Luce Aubrey, Gülsat Aygen, Dominika Region. "Efutu Grammar" deals broadly with the phonological system, describing the sounds, tones, Baran, Maryanne Cockerill, Ju-Eun Lee, Bekezela sound system, tone, and aspects of morphology phonotactics and some phonological processes Ncube, Balkiz Öztürk and Pawel Nowak. The and syntax of the language. Important aspects of including hiatus resolution, vowel harmony, sketch covers the basics of phonology, the language that are explicated include verbal imbrication and reduplication. The third chapter morphology of nouns and verbs, concord and reduplication, tense and aspect, as well as the deals with the morphological structure of noun class membership, the tense/aspect/mood pronominal system and structure. Nouns and Chingoni words. It describes the morphology of system and basic syntax, including subordination

The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 123 AFRICAN LANGUAGES and questions. There is a fully glossed text which et une traduction littéraure. illustrates many of the points made in the sketch. Cette esquisse comprend aussi plusieurs At the time of writing the authors and editors tableaux comparatifs et de nombreux exemples et re-editions were undergraduate and graduate students at se veut une présentation simple, précise et claire Harvard University. des connaissances linguistiques sur le songhay. Grundriß einer ISBN 3 89586 465 X. Languages of the ISBN 3 89586 133 2. Languages of the Grammatik des World/Materials 416. 96pp. USD 61.40 / EUR World/Materials 116. 62 pp. USD 51.80 / EUR 49.90 / GBP 42.40. 2002. 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1997. Kimatumbi

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Das Kimatumbi, das in vorliegender Arbeit VLADIMIR PLUNGIAN MAYRENE BENTLEY & ANDREW behandelt wird, hat keinen großen University of Moscow KULEMEKA Verbreitungsbezirk. Es ist die Sprache der Northeastern State University, University of Bewohner der Matumbiberge. Das nicht allzu Dogon is reputed for its extremely high dialectal Dar es Salaam ausgedehnte Matumbibergland liegt im nördlichen diversity: there are more than 15 dialects attested, Teil des Bezirks Kilwa, zum Teil auch im Bezirk most of them being mutually unintelligible. The Chichewa is an eastern Bantu language spoken in Mohoro, etwa zwischen 38° 30' bis 39° 10' östl. sketch is based on one of the central dialects, Malawi, primarily in the Kasungu, Dowa, and Länge und 8° 10' bis 8° 45' südl. Breite. Es umfaßt tommo-so, very important sociolinguistically but Lilongwe districts. It is also known as Nyanja (einschließlich Ukichi) annähernd 4500 km2. Den not well described yet (more or less like all the because of its ethnic and linguistic ties with the Stoff zu dieser sprachlichen Arbeit verdankt der other Dogon dialects). Nyanja people. Typical of Bantu languages, Autor in erster Linie Schülern der Typologically, Dogon is characterized by a Chichewa is tonal with a CV syllable structure, Regierungsschule Kilwa. Ein Vergleich des quite unusual combination of "agglutinating" verb five vowels, and approximately forty consonant Kimatumbi mit bisher bekannten Sprachen wird (with a variety of aspectual and temporal markers sounds. It has an extensive noun class system zeigen, daß das Kimatumbi nahe verwandt ist mit within the word-form) and "isolating" noun distinguished by noun prefixes with an Kisutu. Das Kimatumbi ist des weiteren aufs (without any affixal markers at all, even number accompanying concord system. Its verbal system engste verwandt mit dem Kirufiji und and case markers being clitical). The sketch marks tense and aspect by infixes, tone, and Kindengereko; das sind die Sprachen der provides a short phonological and morphological auxiliaries. The passive, stative, causative, nördlichen Nachbarn der Wamatumbi (aus der description, a concise account of grammatical reciprocal, and applicative are verbal suffixes. Einleitung der Originalausgabe 1912). categories and derivational system and an Wh-questions are clefts and relative clauses are Inhalt: Lautlehre (Wortton, Veränderung von overview of main syntactic properties of Dogon marked either by relative pronouns or tones. In Vokalen, Veränderung von Konsonanten, (special emphasis is laid on converbs/participles recent years, Chichewa has been a rich source of Ausstoßung von f und s) - Nominalklassen (I-XI) - and "serialization" in clause combining). [written study syntactically for its use of locatives, Genitivpräposition und Personalpräfixe - in French]. morphologically for its ideophones, and Eigenschaftswörter - Fürwörter - Zahlwörter - phonologically for its prosody and phrase Zeitwörter (Infinitiv, Konjugation, Konjunktiv, ISBN 3 929075 46 6. Languages of the structure. Imperativ, Konditional, Negation, Passivum, World/Materials 64. 47pp. USD 51.80 / EUR ISBN 3 89586 920 1. Languages of the Hilfszeitwörter, abgeleitete Zeitwörter) - 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 1995. Umstandswörter - Präposition - Sprachproben World/Materials 345. 60pp. USD 51.80 / EUR 42.10 / GBP 35.80. 2001. (Redewendungen, Erzählungen, Lieder) Lexique Yaka – Français; In his grammatical sketch B. Krumm focuses on nominal and verbal morphology of Kimatumbi, Français – Yaka a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. The study A Classified Vocabulary also includes basic information on adjectives, RUTTENBERG S.J. PIET of the Icibemba personal pronouns, numbers, prepositions and contains several texts (idiomatic expressions, tales Le yaka, langue H31 dans la classification de M. Language and songs). Guthrie est parlé au Zaïre, dans la sous-région du This re-edition has been published as no. 04 in Kwango. ALEXANDER R. MAKASA KASONDE the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series (originally published 1912, written in German). Africa University, Mutara ISBN 3 89586 946 5. Languages of the World/ ISBN 978 3 89586 048 5. LINCOM Gramatica Dictionaries 27. 280pp. USD 89.40 / EUR In Lexicology in Zambia (Kasonde, 1981), the 72.70 / GBP 61.80. 2000. author argued that quality and quantity of 04. 70pp. USD 57.50 / EUR 46.70 / GBP 39.70. published works were a measure of the level of 2010. development in any given society. He lamented Songhay that poverty as such could not justify lack of Manuel de Langue literary creativity in Africa where, unlike the industrial world with modern libraries, oral Kinyarwanda, ROBERT NICOLAI, C.N.R.S. (Université de traditions were the only valuable bibliographies comprenant la Grammaire Nice) & PETR ZIMA (CET Université available. Charles, Praha) The author now avails himself of the et un choix de contes et de opportunity to offer a practical albeit limited proverbes Le groupe des langues Songhay est parlé response to the need for written lexicons which he principalement dans la Boucle du Niger, au Mali then clearly identified. The present work is not the (Tombouctou, Gao, ..) et au Niger (région est, first lexicon of Icibemba language. Earlier EUGENE HUREL située entre la frontière avec le Mali et celle avec lexicons include Bemba-English Dictionary le Bénin). Il est aussi parlé dans ce dernier pays et (White Fathers, 1949), Bemba Pocket Dictionary Le kinyarwanda (parlé par un peu plus d'un dans quelques enclaves du Nigéria, et enfin, de (Hoch, 1960) and A Vocabulary of Icibemba million d'individus (les Batutsi. les Bahutu, les façon tout à fait minoritaire dans plusieurs (Mann, 1995). The original contribution of this Batwa) appartient a la grande famille de langues enclaves de pays voisins. particular lexicon lies in the application of the que les linguistes désignent sous le nom de La description commence par une présentation concept of vocabulary classification based on A langues bantu. C'est donc une langue à classes ou de la classification dialectale du groupe dans Tentative Questionnaire for the words of Bantu à agglutination initiale. Chaque mot comprend le lequel on distingue entre deux grande ensembles: Languages (Yukawa, 1979), also found in A radical et un ou plusieurs affixes. Ce sont ces le songhay méridional et le songhay septentrional Classified Vocabulary of the Luba Language affixes qui servent à caractériser le genre ou la (variétés berbérisées parlées par des populations (Yukawa, 1992). In writing this lexicon, the classe et le nombre du substantif, à marquer minoritaires en zone nomade). Elle se poursuit author knows that there is bound to be l'accord de celui-ci avec les autres parties du avec une description phonétique et phonologique disagreement about the right meaning and discours, à distinguer les temps, les modes des de l'ensemble et de quelques éléments de la spelling. The problem of dialectology verbes, à désigner dans la conjugaison les morphologie nominale et verbale de la langue. La notwithstanding, he has used the official pronoms sujets ou régimes. Les divers affixes et le troisième partie traite de la syntaxe. orthography of Zambian languages (Chimuka, radical sont nettement distincts, quoique La partie suivante propose un lexique 1977). intimement soudés ensemble (préface, p.1). comparatif des dialectes qui contient une centaine Table de matières: Préface, le substantif, la voyelle euphonique, tableau des préfixes ; d´entrées et quelques spécimens de texte ISBN 3 89586 420 X. Languages of the l'adjectif, les pronomes, le verbe, l'adverbe, les concernant les dialectes principaux (songhay World/Dictionaries 39. 180pp. USD 90.70 / prépositions, les conjunctions, les interjections, sepentrional, zarma, dendi, songhay occidental et EUR 73.70 / GBP 62.70. 2002. kaado), fournis avec une traduction juxtalinéaire l'euphonie, contes, proverbes.

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In his grammatical sketch Eugène Hurel Branch to the Southern Sub-Branch. The written in German). mainly focuses on nominal and verbal grammatical sketch contains information on the morphology of Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language of alphabet, syllables, accent, nouns and noun ISBN 978 3 86290 020 6. LINCOM Gramatica Rwanda. This re-edition has been published as no. classes, case, pronouns, adjective, verbs, auxiliary 44. 54pp. USD 46.20 / EUR 38.20 / GBP 31.70. 07 in the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series verbs, formation of words, sentences with 2010/IV. (originally published 1911, MSOS, III. Abt., translations, and a vocabulary of ca. 1200 entries written in French). (Re-edition; originally published 1897 in London; written in English) . La langue kikerewe

ISBN 978 3 89586 069 0. LINCOM Gramatica 07. 166pp. USD 66.20 / EUR 53.80 / GBP ISBN 978 3 86290 100 5. LINCOM Gramatica 45.70. 2010. 80. 166pp. USD 46.70 / EUR 38.60 / GBP EUGEN HUREL 32.00. 2010/IV. Le kikerewe ou kikerebe appartient à la familie des langues appelées bantu, dont un des Die Sprache der Banôho Éléments d'une principaux caractères est l’agglutination. Dans le composition des mots, les voyelles ou syllables P. GUST. ALF. ADAMS Grammaire Kirundi qui différencient les genres, les nombres, les temps, les modes, sont simplement juxtaposées au In his grammatical sketch P. Gust. Alf. Adams J.M.M. VAN DER BURGT radical, que en est nettement distict. Dans la focuses on nominal and verbal morphology of composition des propositions, même juxtaposition Banôho, a Bantu language of Central Africa. The Les Warundi, étant un peuple Bantu, parlent tous des mots qui se suivent dans l´ordre logique, soit study also includes basic information on le kirundi, langue Bantu. L´Urundi est habité par que leur influence réciproque soit marquée par des phonology and morphology (verbs, nouns, trois tribus des peuples : les Watussi, les Wahut, et désinences casuelles, comme en latin, ou des adjectives, personal pronouns, numbers, les Watwa. Tous parlent le kirundi. prépositions, comme en français (de la préface). prepositions, adverbs a small Banôho German Table des matière: Alphabet et quelques The short grammar of the Bantu language dictionary. This re-edition has been published as remarques, article, adjectifs qualicatifs, pronoms Kikerewe offers chapters on nominal morphology no. 06 in the LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) connectifs, démonstratifs, numéraux, formes (with information on the elaborated class system, series (originally published 1907, written in fundamentales des verbes simples, verbes dérivés, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns), verbal German). invariables, adverbes, prépositions, syntax, morphology, syntax, includes several stories with supplément (langue des Watwa), etc. word-to-word translation, and a dictionary (re- ISBN 978 3 89586 055 3. LINCOM Gramatica (Re-edition; originally published 1902 in edition - reprinted from the original version 1909, 06. 56pp. USD 48.20 / EUR 39.20 / GBP 33.30. Berlin; written in French) MSOS XII: 1-113). 2010. ISBN 978 3 86290 010 7. LINCOM Gramatica ISBN 978 3 86290 097 8. LINCOM Gramatica 37. 112pp. USD 59.00 / EUR 48.80 / GBP 77. 114pp. USD 59.00 / EUR 48.80 / GBP Das Kisiha 40.50. 2010/IV. 40.50. 2010/IV.

H.A. FOKKEN Die Santrokofisprache. Kordofan-Texte im Das Kisiha ist einer der vielen Dialekte des Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Dialekt von Gebel Dair. Kidšaga, welches letztere die Sprache der Kilimandscharo-Bewohner ist. So viele Sprachen Togos Grammatische Skizze und Landschaften es an den Abhängen dieses schnee- Texte. bedeckten Riesen gibt, in so viel verschiedene E. FUNKE Dialekte zersplittert ist das Kidšaga. Die H. JUNKER & W. CZERMEK verschieden stark ausgeprägten Unterschiede Die Santrokofisprache wird nur noch in drei zwischen den einzelnen Dialekten lassen sich in Ortschaften mit zusammen kaum 1500 Zum Aufbau der nubischen Grammatik fehlt uns drei Gruppen zusammenfassen: 1. Einzelne Wör- Einwohnern gesprochen. Die Santrokofier oder, ein wichtiges Glied, das Nubische, das in den ter sind in diesem Dialekt gebräuchlich, in jenem wie sie sich selbst nennen, die Bale, kamen aus Bergen von Kordofan gesprochen wird. Gerade unbekannt; 2. einzelne grammatische Regeln sind verschiedenen Gegenden von Boem, wo heute dieser Dialekt hat weniger als alle anderen unter verschieden; 3. einzelne phonetische Regeln sind noch Santrokofi verstanden wird. Dem Wortschatz dem Einfluß fremder Sprachen gestanden. Vom verschieden. nach steht die Santrokofisprache wohl dem Twi Kordofan-Nubischen waren bisher nur eine Reihe Im folgenden findet nur der Kisihadialekt und dem Ga näher als dem Ewe, von dem es jetzt von Wortaufzeichnungen bekannt, für den Berücksichtigung, und ich erlaube mir, das langsam aufgelöst wird. Dagegen gehört es seiner grammatischen Aufbau sagen sie uns nichts und Wenige niederzuschreiben, was mir während des Grammatik nach ganz zu den sog. Bantoiden wenig über die Lautverhältnissse des Nubischen. ersten Jahres meines hiesigen Aufenthaltes als Sprachen, die sich ausschließlich der Die Ergebnisse beruhen u.a. auf Aufnahmen und wahrscheinlich Richtiges aufgefallen ist. Substantivpräfixe bedienen, wie z.B. Avatime, Aufzeichnungen der nubischen Expedition der Inhalt: Orthographie, Feststellung der Nyango-Tafi. Inhalt: Laute, Wortarten, Texte, kgl. Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Grundkonsonanten, Feststellung der Vokale, Wörterverzeichnis. (Re-edition; originally pub- Berlin und der ägyptischen Expedition der Feststellung der nasalierten Konsonanten, lished 1911 in Berlin; written in German). kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Feststellung der Mischlaute, Einfluß von Vokalen Wien (aus der Einleitung entlehnt). auf die Konsonanten, Die Nasale. Index. ISBN 978 3 86290 019 0. LINCOM Gramatica The main part of the study consists of a In his study H.A. Fokken focuses mainly on 43. 48pp. USD 38.70 / EUR 32.00 / GBP 26.50. grammatical sketch with information on the phonology of the grammar of Kisiha. This re- 2010/IV. phonology and morphology, and several texts with edition has been published as no. 05 in the translations. (Re-edition; originally published LINCOM Gramatica (LINGram) series (originally 1913 in Wien; written in German). published 1905, MSOS 08, written in German). Lusiba, die Sprache der

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der Dialekt der "Bayossa" im Lande Kjamtwara Grammar of the Kamba An Introductory Grammar of the Sena C.HERMANN Language. Eastern Equitorial Africa Language spoken on Lusiba ist eine Bantusprache und mit dem Kinyoro verwandt. Es ist die Sprache der the Lower Zambesi Ureinwohner des Landes, der Batundu und scheint J.T. LAST durch die eingewanderten Bahuma, der jetzt W.G. ANDERSON herrschenden Klasse, nur wenig modifiziert zu The Kamba language is one of the great Bantu sein. family of East Africa, south of the equator. The The home of the Sena language is the district The grammatical sketch contains information author found a population of ca. 80000 speakers, bordering the Zambesi from Shupanga to the on the Bantu language Lusiba, focusing on Robert Cust of the Church Missionary Society Lupata gorge. It is classed by Dr. Cust, in his nominal and verbal morphology with special found a large number also in U-Sagara, Mamboia, Modern Languages of Africa, as belonging to the emphasis on the elaborated class system (Re- who had migrated southward. Contents: alphabet, Eastern Branch of the Bantu family, and in that edition; originally published 1904 in Berlin; substantives, adjectives, class system, numerals,

The LINCOM webshop: www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM EUROPA• project line 20 • 2010 ♦ 125 AFRICAN LANGUAGES pronouns, verbs (Re-edition; originally published beginnen (Re-edition; originally published 1907 difficulties in acquiring a knowledge of the 1885 in London; written in English). in Berlin; written in German). language are pronunciation and intonation. The orthography adopted is a compromise between the ISBN 978 3 86290 101 2. LINCOM Gramatica ISBN 978 3 86290 021 3. LINCOM Orientalia one already in use among the missionaries, and the 81. 46pp. USD 39.60 / EUR 32.80 / GBP 27.20. 11. 34pp. USD 29.00 / EUR 24.00 / GBP 19.90. phonetic writing (adopted from the preface). 2010/IV. 2010/IV. The short grammar of Shilluk contains chapters on the sounds, the noun, pronoun, verb, a list of verbs in their different forms, short Grammaire Eine Kinyamwezi- sentences, two texts with interlinear translation and a short dictionary. de la langue haya grammatik (Re-edition; originally published 1910 in

Philadelphia by the Board of Foreign .Missions of M UIJPERS E . K R. STERN the United Presbyterian Church of N.A., written in

English) La langue haya est une langue “bantou”; elle est Das Wort Kinyamwezi begreift eine größere parlée à l´ouest du lac Victoria, et étend son ISBN 978 3 86290 023 7. LINCOM Gramatica Anzahl von Völkerschaften in sich. Sowohl die domaine sur une assez vaste étendue. Table des 19. 84pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP 35.10. Leute nördlich von Tabora wie auch südlich matières: alphabet, quantité et accent tonique, 2010/IV. davon nennen sich Vanyamwezi, ja selbst aus dem voyelles, consonnes, les préfixes, le verbe, verbes Munde der Vakonongo habe ich diese Selbst- dérivés, formation des noms, la proposition, etc. bezeichnung gehört. Man darf also von ihnen (Re-edition; originally published 1922 in Boxtel; allen von einer Einheit der Sprache, zugleich aber Swahili Grammar and written in French) auch von einer dialektischen Verschiedenheit Vocabulary sprechen (aus der Einleitung entlehnt). ISBN 978 3 86290 005 3. LINCOM Gramatica The study contains information on URT 79. 304pp. USD 80.80 / EUR 66.80 / GBP orthography, nominal and verbal morphology F. B

55.40. 2010/IV. (with special focus on the class system), and word The Swahili language, a member of the Bantu lists (Re-edition; originally published 1906 in family is broadly divided into three main dialects. Berlin; written in German) Linguistische Studien in The most striking gammatical fact is that all ISBN 978 3 86290 011 4. LINCOM Gramatica objects in the known universe are divided into Ostafrika 38. 133pp. USD 60.00 / EUR 48.80 / GBP classes, which not only mark the nouns, but also 40.50. 2010/IV. all the adjectives, pronouns, and verbs connected with them. This is effected by means of the CARL MEINHOF classifier prefix which differs according to the Die Sprache der Wahehe class of the noun, and whether it is singular or Vom August des Jahres 1902 bis zum Februar plural. Besides this, the nominative or subjective 1903 habe ich mich in Sansibar und Deutsch- C. VELTEN prefixes and the objective infixes, are thrown Ostafrika aufgehalten, um meine phonetischen together with tense particles into one word with

Beobachtungen an Ort und Stelle nachzuprüfen the verb stem, so that one word may form a Die Entstehung der Kurzgrammatik beruht auf und zu vervollständigen. Ich habe meine complete and luminous sentence (from the Aufnahmen zweier Wahehe Sprecherinnen, die Untersuchungen auf eine große Anzahl von introduction). Contents: Part I: Introduction and 1894 als Gefangene der Truppen des Generals von Sprachen der Bantugruppe ausgedehnt und auch article on Phonetics, Part II: Twenty-one studies in Schlehe nach Daressalam gebracht wurden. Die versucht, in Sprachen einzudringen, welche nicht the familiar language of daily life, consisting of: Kurzgrammatik enthält Informationen zur zu dieser Gruppe gehören. In einigen Sprachen, Vocabulary, Exercises and translating, grammatic- Lautlehre, zum Klassensystem des Substantivs, wie in den Sprachen der Mbugu und der Ndorobo al notes and graded studies in Swahili grammar Verbum, Adverbien, Gepräche, ein fehlten alle Vorarbeiten, in anderen wie dem (Re-edition; originally published 1919 in London; Wörterverzeichnis, eine Übersichtskarte zum Šambala waren umfassende Arbeiten schon written in English). Klassensystem (Re-edition; originally published geschaffen. Im Band sind u.a. grammatische 1899 in Berlin; written in German). Abhandlungen zu folgenden Sprachen enthalten: ISBN 978 3 86290 055 8. LINCOM Gramatica Suaheli, Šambala, Namwezi, Sukuma, Digo, Nika, ISBN 978 3 86290 015 2. LINCOM Gramatica 61. 271pp. USD 65.80 / EUR 54.40 / GBP Pokomo, Bondei, Zigula, Mbugu, Dzalamo, 41. 81pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP 35.10. 45.10. 2010/IV. Makua; 2010/IV. (Re-edition; originally published 1907 in Berlin MSOS X, III Abt.; written in German) Kimatengo-Wörterbuch The Nuer Language ISBN 978 3 86290 017 6. LINCOM Orientalia P. JOHANNES HÄFLINGER 09. 281pp. USD 66.90 / EUR 54.40 / GBP DIEDRICH WESTERMANN 46.20. 2010/IV. Die Wamatengo (Sg.:Mmatengo) bewohnen Matengo, die südwestlichste Ecke von Deutsch- The Nuer who have received their name from their neighbours, the Dinkas, Shilluks and Arabs, live Ostafrika, d.h.eigentlich mehr die Berge daselbst. Einige Bemerkungen in several separate sections in the Anglo-Egyptian Als Interpreten hatte ich hauptsächlich zwei Sudan, and partly in Western Abyssinia. The Missionsschüler, einer davon war der jetzige über das Verbum im Nuers belong to the Nilotic group. The materials Sultan Mbaya. Ich hatte auch einige von den for this work were collected during a stay in Wamatengo erzählte Fabeln und Erzählungen Masai Khartoum and on Doleib Hill, a mission station. aufgezeichnet, die ich diesem Wörterbuch The study contains sections on sounds, parts of voransetze (im Original und in Übersetzung mit H.A. FOKKEN speech, short sentences, and a vocabulary (Re- Erläuterungen). edition; originally published 1912 in Berlin: (Re-edition; originally published 1909 in Besondere Schwierigkeiten bei der Erforschung MSOS XV, III Abt.: 84-150, written in English). Berlin; written in German) der Masaisprache bietet das Verbum mit seinen vielen Prä- und Suffixen. Will man die richtige ISBN 978 3 86290 013 8. LINCOM Gramatica ISBN 978 3 86290 098 5. LINCOM Orientalia Bedeutung eines Verbes feststellen, so ist eine 39. 61pp. USD 46.20 / EUR 38.20 / GBP 31.70. 29. 89pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP 35.10. genaue, auf jede Vor- und Nachsilbe eingehende 2010/IV. 2010/IV. Analyse des Wortes erste, unerläßliche Bedingung. Hat man erst einmal den Stamm erkannt, so kann man mit Leichtigkeit das Verbum A Short Grammar of the Somalitexte durchkonjugieren und auch eine nicht geringe

Anzahl von Verbalspezies bilden. So richtete ich Shilluk Language Gesammelt und übersetzt von denn bei der mühsamen Erforschung der neuen ALFRED JAHN Sprache von Anfang an mein Augenmerk darauf, DIEDRICH WESTERMANN zunächst einmal die Verbalstämme festzustellen und sie in eine gewisse Ordnung zu bringen. So In den nachfolgenden Texten (Somali mit richten sich z.B. die Präfixe nach den The Shilluk country is situated in the Anglo- deutscher Überetzung), welche ich während der Anfangsbuchstaben, wobei sich drei Gruppen für Egyptian Sudan; it extends along the west bank of Reise der Südarabischen Expedition der die Stämme ergeben, solche, die mit einem the White Nile from Kaka in the north to Lake No kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach Konsonanten beginnen, solche die mit einem in the South. The present grammar is intended as a dem Diktate des in Aden wohnenden Somali Vokal außer i beginnen, und solche, die mit i practical guide to the Shilluk language. The main Ibrahim ´Abdilla Mayäl aus dem Stamme der

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Háber-Áuwel Hásan Makahel aufgezeichnet habe, sind auch Beziehungen zu Ful, Serer und Biafada in Berlin; written in German). ist dieselbe Transkription gewählt wie in unverkennbar (aus der Einleitung). Inhalt: Reinisch´ Publikationen über die Somalisprache. Lautverhältnisse, Wortbildung, Substantivum, ISBN 978 3 86290 016 9. LINCOM Gramatica Inhalt: Texte, Glossar, Beobachtungen, welche Pronomina, Adjektivum, Zahlwort, Verbum, 42. 48pp. USD 45.00 / EUR 36.60 / GBP 31.00. bezüglich der Syntax der vorstehenden Texte Textstücke (Re-edition; originally published 1905 2010/IV. gemacht worden sind, einige Schlußbemerkungen, in Berlin; written in German). die Formenlehre betreffend (Re-edition; originally published 1906 in Wien; written in German). ISBN 978 3 86290 122 7. LINCOM Gramatica Grundriss einer

88. 39pp. USD 30.00 / EUR 24.80 / GBP 20.50. 2010/IV. Grammatik der ISBN 978 3 86290 120 3. LINCOM Orientalia 34. 140pp. USD 56.60 / EUR 46.80 / GBP Kondesprache 38.80. 2010/IV. Die Sprache der Hausa. Grammatik, Übungen und C. SCHUMANN Oshindonga. Kurzgefaßte Chrestomathie sowie Die nachstehende Arbeit über die Kondesprache Grammatik, analysierte hausanisch-deutsches und schliesst sich den bereits vorhandenen Lesestücke nebst einem Darstellungen ostafrikanischen Bantusprachen deutsch-hausanisches nach dem von Steere in seinen Swahili-exercises oshindonga-deutschen und zuerst angewandten Verfahren an. Das Material zu Wörterbuch der Arbeit ist in den Jahren 1891-1896 u.a. von deutsch-oshindonga den Missionaren der Mission Berlin I zusammen- Wörterbuch ERNST C. MARRÉ getragen worden und mit Hilfe von Carl Meinhof bearbeitet worden.

The short grammar focuses on nominal and A. SEIDEL Die vorliegende Grammatik von Marré ist eine der verbal morphology of the Bantu language Konde, ersten deutschsprachigen Arbeiten zur Grammatik incl. two short stories with interlinear translations Das Oshindonga gehört zu den Bantusprachen. Es des Hausa. Über Hausa, so schreibt Marré in (Re-edition; originally published 1899 in Berlin; ist insbesondere ein Dialekt des Otyiambo, welche seiner Einleitung, ist außer wenigen Texten von written in German). in Südwestafrika ein Areal von über 140000 deutschsprachigen Autoren noch nichts Quadratkilometer bewohnen. Inhalt: Bemerkun- veröffentlich worden. Am produktivsten ist ISBN 978 3 86290 094 7. LINCOM Gramatica gen über die Aussprache, Grammatik (Artikel, Reverend Schön gewesen mit Bibelübersetzungen, Hauptwort, Eigenschaftswort, Fürwort, Zeitwort den Mangana hausa (hausanische Erzählungen), 75. 90pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP 35.10. (Imperativ, Vokalharmonie, Infinfitiv, und einer ersten Grammatik. Inhalt: Das 2010/IV. Partizipium, Tempora, das Passivum, abgeleitete hausanische Alphabet, systematische Grammatik Zeitwörter), Adverbien, Präpositionen, (Vokale, Konsonanten, Akzent, An- und Auslaut; Nama (Sprache der Nama- Konjunktionen, Lesestücke, Wörterverzeichnis stammbildende Elemente, das Pronomen, das (Re-edition; originally published 1892 in Wien; Nomen, das Adjektivum, das Verbum mit Hottentotten). Kurzgefaßte written in German). Tabellen), Übungen, Chrestomatie, Grammatik, analysierte Wörterverzeichnis (Re-edition; originally ISBN 978 3 86290 144 9. LINCOM Gramatica published 1904 in Wien; written in German). Lesestücke nebst einem 105. 56pp. USD 45.70 / EUR 37.80 / GBP 31.30. 2010/IV. ISBN 978 3 86290 146 3. LINCOM Gramatica nama-deutschen und 107. 188pp. USD 68.70 / EUR 56.80 / GBP deutsch-nama Wörterbuch 47.10. 2010/IV. Über die Sprache der A. SEIDEL

Hottentotten und Praktische Grammatik der Die Nama gehören wie die Koranna zu den Buschmänner Bantu-Sprache von Tete, Hottentotten. Sie bewohnen den ganzen südlichen Teil des deutsch-südwestafrikanischen Schutz- einem Dialekt des Unter- gebietes, das sogenannte Groß-Namaland, grenzen LANERT W. P Sambesi mit Varianten der im Norden an die Herrero, und im Osten an die Koronna. Das Nama hat vier sogenannte

Über das Buschmännische breitet sich noch ein Sena-Sprache Schnalzlaute, welche nur im Anfange eines tiefes Dunkel, ebenso ist das Hottentottische nur Stammwortes vor einem Vokal oder vor g,h,k,kh aus einem Dialekte und daher ungenügend P. ALEXANDER V.D. MOHL und n vorkommen können. Inhalt: Lautlehre, bekannt. Erst als im Jahre 1889 der Formenlehre (Hauptwort, Eigenschaftswort, Missionssuperintendent Kroenlein seinen Wir beschäftigen uns hier mit zwei Dialekten der Fürwort, Zeitwort, Adverbien), Übungsstücke mit „Wortschatz der Khoi-Khoin“ herausgab, war die Bantu-Sprache vom Unter-Sambesi: dem Dialekt Erklärungen, Wörterverzeichnis. Möglichkeit gegeben, ein gründliches Studium von Tete und dem von Sena. Das Gebiet dieser (Re-edition; originally published 1892 in des Hottentottischen zu versuchen (aus der Sprache erstreckt sich von der Mündung des Wien; written in German) Einleitung). Inhalt: Schrift und Aussprache Sambesi bis in die Kufukwa-Gegend nach (Poppsysmata oder Schnalzlaute, Betonung, Nordwesten und dann vom Mashonaland südlich ISBN 978 3 86290 142 5. LINCOM Gramatica Veränderung der Vokale und Konsonanten), zum Nyassasee nördlich (aus dem Vorwort). 103. 68pp. USD 48.20 / EUR 39.90 / GBP Zusammenstellung der Dialektformen. Suffix- Inhalt. Das kaffrische Alphabet, das 33.10. 2010/IV. lehre, Formenlehre, das Nomen-Verbum, nomen Zehnklassensystem, die starke Form, die numerale, Postpositionen, Konjunktionen, Adver- schwache Form, die demonstrativen Neben- und bien. Sprachproben (Re-edition; originally Fürwörter, Verba, die zehn Klassen im einzelnen, Otyiherero. Kurzgefaßte published 1905 in Berlin; written in German) die modalen Hilfspartikeln, die Fragesätze und die imperativen Sätze, die kausalen, finalen, konditio- Grammatik, analysierte ISBN 978 3 86290 093 0. LINCOM Gramatica nalen und unabhängigen Sätze (Re-edition; Lesestücke nebst einem 74. 77pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP 35.10. originally published 1904 in Berlin; written in otyiherero-deutschen und 2010/IV. German). deutsch-otyiherero ISBN 978 3 86290 092 3. LINCOM Gramatica Wörterbuch Beitrag zur Kenntnis 108. 58pp. USD 46.20 / EUR 38.20 / GBP 31.70. 2010/IV. der Tem-Sprache (Nord- A. SEIDEL

Togo) Das Otyiherero wird von den Ovaherero (auch Die Sprache der Bakwiri Herero) in Deutsch-Südwestafrika gesprochen. Sie P. MÜLLER gehören zu den Bantuvölkern. Das von ihnen EUGEN SCHULER bewohnte Gebiet liegt etwa zwischen dem 18. und Die Leute, welche die Tem-Sprache sprechen, 29. Grad südl. Breite und dem 14. bis 20. Grad nennen sich Témbà (im Sg. Tèmné) oder Témbià. The short grammar on Bakwiri contains östl. L. Inhalt: Aussprache, die Lehre von den Die Tem-Sprache ist eine der weitverbreitesten in information on nouns and classes, numerals, Wörtern (u.a. Klassen, Pluralbildung, Nord-Togo. Der Autor bringt das Tem in adjetives, verbs and classes, texts and a Kasusbildung, das Zeitwort, etc.), Lesestücke, Beziehung zu den Bantu-Sprachen, andererseits vocabulary (Re-edition; originally published 1908 Wörterbuch (Re-edition; originally published

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1892 in Wien; written in German). Küstenkamba, deren Zahl sich auf etwa 3500 - WORD BUILDING SOME PHONETIC LAWS beläuft, isolierten sich streng von den - APPENDIX I. TEXTS (ZULU, HERERO, ILA, ISBN 978 3 86290 143 2. LINCOM Gramatica umliegenden Völkern. NYANJA, SWAHILI, GANDA) - APPENDIX II. 104. 70pp. USD 48.20 / EUR 39.90 / GBP Diesem Handbuch liegt nun das Kamba der BIBLIOGRAPHY. Ngove zugrunde. Die in vorliegender Arbeit 33.10. 2010/IV. This re-edition has been published as no. 04 in the verwendete Orthographie gründet sich auf P. LINCOM Orientalia (LINCOri) series (originally Meinhof’s „Grundriß der Lautlehre der published 1919, London, written in English. Bantusprachen“ und wurde mit einigen für die Kissūkuma, die Sprache der Author’s affiliation: Reader in Swahili, School of Praxis erforderlichen Änderungen von der Oriental Studies, London Institution). Wassūkuma, speciell der Konferenz der ev.-luth. Kambamissionare

Dialekt der am Speke-Golf angenommen (aus dem Vorwort). Inhalt: Lautlehre (u.a. Assimilationsgesetze), ISBN 978 3 86290 039 8. LINCOM Orientalia und Smith-Sund gelegenen Substantivklassen, Pronomina, Verbum mit einem 13. 356pp. USD 83.20 / EUR 68.80 / GBP nordwestlichen Stämme alphabetischen Verbverzeichnis (mit Angabe des 57.10. 2010/IV. Präsensstammes, Perf. Simpl., stammes, etc), C. HERRMANN Texte (Re-edition; originally published 1906 in Berlin; written in German) Kikami, die Sprache der

Die Kissūkuma ist eine Bantu-Sprache und mit Wakami in Deutsch- den Sprachen der Watakama und Wagalagansa, ISBN 978 3 86290 091 6. LINCOM Gramatica der beiden Hauptstämme der Waniamwesi, 118. 103pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP Ostafrika verwandt. Die Sprache, welche mit dem 35.10. 2010/IV. Kiniamwesi durch die Handelsbeziehungen am C. VELTEN meisten verbreitete Sprache Ostafrikas ist, ist bei der über ein weites Areal ausgebreiteten Stämmen Notes on Kamba Grammar An sprachlichen Sammlungen in Kikami existierte sehr verschieden: die im Osten und Südosten with two Appendices: Kamba bis jetzt sehr wenig, so gab J.T. Last eine kurze anstossenden Hamiten haben einen Teil ihrer Skizze nebst 250 Wörtern heraus. Ich habe die rauhen Töne, wie das gutturale gh, in das Names of Persons, Places, Animals Zeit der Anwesenheit von König Kingo in Kissūkuma übertragen, während im Westen and Plants - Salutations Daressalam zu Sprachstudien mit seinen Leuten Mischung mit Kisindya (einer Wahuma-Sprache) genutzt (aus der Einleitung). Inhalt: Lautlehre, Substantiv, Adjectiv, Pronomina, Zahlwörter, stattgefunden hat. GERHARD LINDBLOM The short grammar contains information on Verb, Steigerung, Adverbien, Übersichtstabelle über das Klassensystem, Gespräche mit substantives and classes, adjectives, numbers, The present study is meant to form a supplement pronouons, conjunctions, interjections, verbs, Übersetzungen, Wörterverzeichnis (Re-edition; to E. Brutzer’s “Handbuch der Kambasprache” originally published 1900 in Berlin; written in tales, word lists (Re-edition; originally published (re-edited as no. 118 in the LINCOM Gramatica 1898 in Berlin; written in German) German). series), chiefly such things being treated which are

not mentioned by Brutzer. Thus, especially section ISBN 978 3 86290 014 5. LINCOM Gramatica ISBN 978 3 86290 095 4. LINCOM Gramatica II consists of isolated cases from the accidence. It 40. 60pp. USD 46.20 / EUR 38.20 / GBP 31.70. 76. 57pp. USD 46.20 / EUR 38.20 / GBP 31.70. should also be pointed out that this study is based 2010/IV. 2010/IV. on a different dialect than that on which Brutzer’s

book is based. I was in Ukamba (British East Africa) in 1911 and 1912, to work with Kamba Grammar and Dictionary of natives. The Kamba people is one of the largest A Handbook the Bobangi Language people in British East Africa, in their land of the Ila Language Ukamba the population amounts to some 230,000 as spoken over a part of the upper persons (adapted from the introduction). (Commonly called the Seshukulumbwe), Congo West Central Africa (Re-edition; originally published 1926 in Uppsala; spoken in North-Western Rhodesia, South- written in English). Central Africa. Comprising Grammar, JOHN WHITEHEAD Exercises, Specimens of Ila Tales, and Vocabularies ISBN 978 3 86290 162 3. LINCOM Gramatica

The author offers a short introduction to the 119. 104pp. USD 51.30 / EUR 42.40 / GBP history and the geolinguistic situation of the 35.10. 2010/IV. EDWIN W. SMITH Bobangi, who lived on the Congo from the mouth In issuing this Handbook I cherish the hope it may of the Kasai to Irebu. The language served also the Introductory Sketch of the lead many to study the language and not to use basis of the regional trade language. Among the Bantu Languages Kitchen Kaffir. Kitchen Kaffir is a hotch-potch of source for the grammar were some smaller many dialects, without grammatical structure and publication, mainly published by missionaries. very limited as to vocabulary. It is largely used by The first part gives information on the ALICE WERNER Europeans throughout South Africa, and it is a grammar, including chapters on orthography, proof of the inteligence of the native people that etymology (nouns, verbs, and the class system). The Bantu family of languages is spoken they frequently understand what in reality is the The grammar part ends with chapters on syntax. throughout Southern and Central Africa, as far as most arrant nonsense. The study concludes with a Bobango-English and the Gulf of Cameroons on the north-west, and the The Ila language, a Bantu language, is spoken English-Bobango Dictionary (Re-edition; Tana river on the north-east.The name Bantu was by the Baila, or, as they are commonly called, the first introduced by Bleek (1827-1875). The originally published 1899 in London; written in Mashukulumbwe, a people living in North-West existence of this langauge-family was at any rate Rhodesia on either side of the middle Kafue. They English). conjectured as early as 1908 by the German number about 25,000. The grammar offers naturalist Lichtenstein. It will, I hope, be chapters on phonology, nominal and verbal ISBN 978 3 86290 129 6. LINCOM Gramatica sufficiently clear from the title that the present morphology, and several chapters on syntax. It 92. 515pp. USD 92.90 / EUR 76.80 / GBP work is only an "Introduction" and does not in any concludes with a 230 pages vocabulary English- 63.70. 2010/IV. respect seek to enter into competition with those Ila and Ila-English (Re-edition; originally of Bleek, Professor Meinhof, Father Torrend and published 1907 in London; written in English). Sir Harry Johnston. I am under great obligations, Handbuch der more or less, to all four, though compelled to differ, occasionally, with all respect, from each; ISBN 978 3 86290 158 6. LINCOM Gramatica but I venture to think I have occupied some 116. 512pp. USD 92.90 / EUR 76.80 / GBP Kambasprache 63.70. 2010/IV. ground not completely covered by any of them, yet important from the beginner's point of view ERNST BRUTZER (adapted from the Introduction). Vocabulaire Français-Ifumu Die Kamba, zur Familie der Bantu gehörig, geben CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION. - THE (Batéké), precédé d´élé- als ihren Ursitz das Gebiet von Yulu jenseits des ALLITERATIVE CONCORD - THE NOUN- CLASSES - THE NOUN-CLASSES (continued) - ments de grammaire Athiflusses an. Die „echten“ Kamba, die Ngove, wie sie sagen, sind von dort nach Kitwi und dem CASES : THE LOCATIVE - THE PRONOUN - Berge Mutomo gekommen. Während einer THE COPULA AND THE VERB ' TO BE ' - P.J. CALLOCH Hungersnot aber, die 1836 in Ukamba wütete, THE ADJECTIVE - THE NUMERALS - THE zogen viele dieser Kamba an die Küste. Diese VERB - THE VERB (continued) - MOODS L'Ifumu, l'Isi-bāna et l'Itéo sont trois principeaux AND TENSES - ADVERBS AND PARTICLES dialectes de la langue parlée par les Batékés au

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Congo français, de Brazzaville à l'Alima. La ISBN 978 3 86290 107 4. LINCOM Gramatica as beginners. It prepares and equips students that langue des Batéké est un idiom bantou. Ces trois 86. 55pp. USD 41.80 / EUR 34.60 / GBP 28.70. have flair for research to understand the basic dialectes ont une syntaxe commune et ne différent 2010/IV. procedure in conducting business or social entre eux que par des variations régulières research in order to face the challenges of the d'accents, de pronunciations, de désinences, de changing world in the field of management contractions. Les mots sont à peu près les mêmes. education. The book is not just a codified Les Batékés du Congo belge parlent Deutsch-Quarisches experience as it tried to present the much needed exclusivement l'Itéo, de Léopoldville à Bolobo (de Wörterverzeichnis research knowledge to most researchers who do la introduction). Table des matières: Alphabet, not posses the technical skills required to write accent, euphonie, voyelles, consonnes; nom, (Die Quarasprache in Abessinien, III) research reports. adjectif, verbe, adverbe, syntaxe, vocabulaire (Re- Though the book does not integrate all the edition; originally published 1911 in Paris; written LEO REINISCH topics in research methods it nonetheless treated in French). topics of necessity needed for undertaking the nitty-gritty of a research in Africa. In the final (Re-edition; originally published 1887 in Wien; ISBN 978 3 86290 159 3. LINCOM Gramatica analysis, the book is a guide and its essence is not 117. 352pp. USD 83.20 / EUR 68.80 / GBP written in German) to know the formulae alone but ability to 57.10. 2010/IV. understand its contents and apply it appropriately to research in order to produce meaningful results. ISBN 978 3 86290 180 7. LINCOM Orientalia 45. 54pp. USD 26.60 / EUR 22.00 / GBP 18.20. The book should not be taken as a philosophical 2010/IV. presentation but rather a practical exposition of A Grammar what research is all about. Hence to apply its of the Kaffir Language contents for practical solution of research problem need no special logical sense but rather simple Quelques principes understanding of the applic-ation. The book is a J. MCLAREN grammaticaux de la practical guide to research for students, managers, consultants and researchers with African examples It is now nearly twenty years since the author langue fang published, through the Lovedale Mission Press, an ISBN 978 389586 223 6. LINCOM Studies in

" Introductory Kaffir Grammar "—now long out Management 02. 239pp. USD 84.90 / EUR of print—which led the way in an attempt to deal A.M.D.G. 69.00 / GBP 58.70. 2010. with the language in a simplified manner based on analytic treatment. Not long afterwards the Rev. J. Table des matières: de l'orthographe et de la Torrend published an " Outline of Xosa-Kafir pronunciation - du nom - de l'adjectif - du pronom Contemporary Grammar," in which he, independently, arrived at - du verbe - participe - interrogation et négation the same general conclusions regarding the (Re-edition; originally published 1894 in Pairs; Management Cases in language as myself, though expressed in a written in French). different terminology. These main principles have Africa since been very generally accepted by subsequent writers on Kaffir and other Bantu languages. ISBN 978 3 86290 182 1. LINCOM Gramatica AYUBA A. AMINU The present work, which is entirely new, has 123. 55pp. USD 45.70 / EUR 37.80 / GBP University of Maiduguri occupied my leisure time for several years past. 31.30. 2010/IV.

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GERHARD LINDBLOM Methods with African Examples The Atharaka live south-east from Mount Kenia, on both sides of the river Tana. Their country is quite small and the speakers do not number more AYUBA A. AMINU than 7000 persons (from the introduction). University of Maiduguri, Nigeria Contents: Phonological notes. Inflexion (nouns, pronouns, verbs). Subordinate clauses. This research book covers essential areas of Vocabulary (Re-edition; originally published 1914 research in social and management sciences. It in Upsala; written in English) exposes students to the basic concepts of research

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