Roland Kießling
List of John Benjamins publications in which Roland Kießling is involved.
2025 Chapter 10. English in the linguistic landscape(s) of rural Tanzania World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 208–230 | Chapter
The linguistic macroecology of Tanzania is characterized by multiple interactions of languages that can generally be summarized as 2 + 1 out of many, involving the national official language Swahili, the ex-colonial and elitist (co-official) language English, and a panoply of 120+ vernacular… read more
2018 Niger-Congo numeral classifiers in a diachronic perspective The Diachrony of Classification Systems, McGregor, William B. and Søren Wichmann (eds.), pp. 33–76 | Chapter
Numeral classifier systems have only recently come to be recognized in various African languages where they either co-exist with fully fledged noun class systems or supersede residual ones. This chapter explores the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of Niger-Congo numeral classifier systems… read more
2013 On the origin of Niger-Congo nominal classification Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011, Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), pp. 43–65 | Article
The Niger-Congo noun class system has resisted historical reconstruction due to the advanced stage of grammaticalisation its markers present. Yet, incipient systems of alternative nominal classification such as numeral classifiers and class-terms found across various branches of Niger-Congo… read more
2010 Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. 145–164 | Article
Information structure in Isu is encoded by a variety of morphosyntactic strategies, involving markers of focalisation and defocalisation, both interacting with a syntactic pattern where the relative position vis-à-vis the finite verb plays a crucial role. In most of its properties, the Isu system… read more