Cover not available

Review published In: Studies in Language
Vol. 36:4 (2012) ► pp.907–914

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Book review

Gerrit J. Dimmendal. Historical linguistics and the comparative study of African languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. xviii+421 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 1179 8

Reviewed by
 | SIL International
Published online: 25 January 2013
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.36.4.06cah
References (17)
References
Bichakjian, Bernard. 1988. Evolution in language. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bynon, Theodora. 1983. Historical linguistics. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Campbell, Lyle. 2004. Historical linguistics, 2nd edn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crowley, Terry. 1992. An introduction to historical linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Dixon, R. M. W. 1997. The rise and fall of languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Givón, Talmy. 1971. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archeologist’s fieldtrip. Papers from the 7th regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 394–415. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Guthrie, Malcom. 1967–1971. Comparative Bantu. 41 volumes. London: Greggs.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hock, Hans Henrich. 1991. Principles of historical linguistics. New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hock, Hans Henrich & Brian D. Joseph. 1996. Language history, language change, and language relationship: An introduction to historical and comparative linguistics. New York: Mouton de Gruyter.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Jeffers, Robert J. & Ilse Lehiste. 1986. Principles and methods for historical linguistics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Labov, William. 1994. Principles of linguistic change: Volume 1: Internal factors. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm. 1854. Polyglotta Africana or A comparative vocabulary of nearly three hundred words and phrases in more than one hundred distinct African languages. London: Church Missionary House.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Maddieson, Ian. 1976. Tone reversal in Ciluba: A new theory. In Larry Hyman (ed.), Studies in Bantu tonology (Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 31), 141–165. Los Angeles: Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nichols, Johanna. 2003. Diversity and stability in language. In Brian Joseph & Richard Janda (eds.), The handbook of historical linguistics, 283–310. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schnoebelen, Tyler. 2009. (Un)classifying Shabo: Phylogenetic methods and results. Paper presented at the Conference on language documentation and theory 21. London: SOAS.
Vansina, Jan. 2006. Linguistic evidence for the introduction of ironworking into Bantu-Speaking Africa. History in Africa 33(1). 321–361. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Yip, Moira. 2002. Tone (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue