Langage, langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Langage, langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire*

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Space in Diachrony

Edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina & Chiara Zanchi

Subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] 2017.  | edited volume

Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 18–20 October, 2007

Edited by Bernard Comrie, Ray Fabri, Elizabeth Hume, Manwel Mifsud, Thomas Stolz & Martine Vanhove

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 113] 2009. xi, 422 pp. | edited volume

Esher, Louise 2025 Dissimilatory constraints discriminate between variants in analogical change

Keywords: inflectional analogy | inflectional paradigms | dissimilation | Occitan | Romance linguistics

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 110–127

Mettouchi, Amina & Valentina Schiattarella 2024 Food, contact phenomena and reconstruction in Oriental Berber

Keywords: Berber | Afro-Asiatic | contact | food | Zenati | classification | migrations | linkage | wave-model | culture

In: Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego & Luisa Miceli (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 367] pp. 283–329

Khachaturyan, Maria, George Moroz, Valentin Vydrin & Maria Konoshenko 2024 Valency patterns in Mande: Contact vs inheritance

Keywords: valency patterns | Mande | language contact | pattern borrowing | matter borrowing

Studies in Language 49:4 pp. 823–857 | article

Roulon-Doko, Paulette 2025 Les références floues en Gbaya (R.C.A.) [Fuzzy References in Gbaya (C.A.R)]

Keywords: Niger-Congo | Gbaya | référence floue | sous-détermination | pronom impersonnel humain | Niger-Congo | Gbaya | fuzzy reference | under-determination | human impersonal pronoun

Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 pp. 202–221 | article

Roberts, David, JeDene Reeder & Valentin Vydrin 2021 Eastern Dan

In: Tone Orthography and Literacy: The voice of evidence in ten Niger-Congo languages, Roberts, David & Stephen L. Walter (eds.) [Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 18] p. 85

Velde, Mark L. O. Van de 2020 Concernee-Concern constructions: A comparative study of external possession in the Bantu languages

Keywords: external possession | Bantu | alienability | prototypicality | applicative suffix

Studies in Language 44:1 pp. 70–94 | article

Nikitina, Tatiana 2020 Logophoricity and shifts of perspective: New facts and a new account

Functions of Language 27:1 pp. 78–99 | article

Esher, Louise 2020 Overlapping subjunctive forms in Gallo- and Ibero-Romance verb paradigms

Keywords: syncretism | analogical change | verb inflection | Occitan | Catalan | Valencian

Revue Romane 57:1 p. 86 | article

Idiatov, Dmitry 2020 Perfective marking conditioned by transitivity status in Western Mande: Constructional competition, specialization and merger

Keywords: alignment | bidirectional case markers | differential TAM and polarity marking | historical syntax | Mande languages | multiple-source constructions | perfective | construction-based reconstruction | split-ergativity | transitivity status

Diachronica 37:1 pp. 43–82 | article

Robert, Stéphane 2020 On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof: From reflexivity to intensifying uses

Keywords: reflexives | intensifiers | semantic continuity | anaphora | metonymy | head | grammaticalization | Wolof | African languages

In: Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage, Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (ed.) [Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] pp. 133–168

Vanhove, Martine & Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed 2018 Diminutives and augmentatives in Beja (North-Cushitic)

Keywords: Beja | evaluative morphology | diminutive | augmentative | gender | emotion

Studies in Language 42:1 pp. 51–80 | article

Robert, Stéphane 2018 The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory: Fractal grammar and transcategorial functioning

Keywords: polycategoriality | polysemy | grammaticalization | fractal grammar | categorization | typology

Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:1 pp. 106–132 | article

Mettouchi, Amina & Valentina Schiattarella 2018 The influence of the state distinction on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber)

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] pp. 265–296

Nikitina, Tatiana 2018 Focus marking and differential argument marking: The emergence of bidirectional case marking in Wan

In: Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude & Martine Vanhove (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] pp. 195–216

Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina & Chiara Zanchi 2017 Space in Diachrony: An introduction

In: Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina & Chiara Zanchi (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 188] p.  ff.

Van de Velde, Mark L. O. & Odette Ambouroue 2017 The origin and use of a relative clause construction that targets objects in Orungu (Bantu, Gabon)

Keywords: relative clauses | syntactic reanalysis | Bantu | passive | accessibility hierarchy

Studies in Language 41:3 pp. 615–637 | article

Chanard, Christian 2015 ELAN-CorpA: Lexicon-aided annotation in ELAN

In: Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages, Mettouchi, Amina, Martine Vanhove & Dominique Caubet (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] pp. 311–332

Roberts, David 2013 A tone orthography typology

In: Typology of Writing Systems, Borgwaldt, S. & Terry Joyce (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 51] p. 85

Van de Velde, Mark L.O. 2013 The Bantu connective construction

In: The Genitive, Carlier, Anne & Jean-Christophe Verstraete (eds.) [Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages, 5] pp. 217–252

Cohen, David, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle & Martine Vanhove 2008 11. The grammaticalization of ‘say’ and ‘do’: An areal phenomenon in East Africa

In: Reported Discourse: A meeting ground for different linguistic domains, Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 52] pp. 227–251

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.