In:Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
[Not in series 161] 2011
► pp. v–viii
Get fulltext
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 8 June 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.161.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.161.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Figuresxiii
Mapsxv
Tablesxvii
Part I. The comparative method
1. Explaining similarities
2. Explaining sound change
3. Classification and subclassification techniques
4. Morphosyntactic changes
5. Semantic change
6. Internal reconstruction
7. Language-internal variation
Part II. The linguistic manifestation of contact
8. Borrowing
9. Pidginisation and creolisation
10. Syncretic languages
11. Language contraction and language shift
12. Language contact phenomena and genetic classification
Part III. Studying language change in a wider contex
13. Language typology and reconstruction
14. Remote relationships and genetic diversity on the African continent
15. Language and history
16. Some ecological properties of language development
References
Appendix
Language and language family index
Subject index
