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Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Synopsis
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
Chapters
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A featural analysis of mid and downstepped high tone in Babanki
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Metrically conditioned vowel length in Dagaare
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‘Backwards’ sibilant palatalization in a variety of Setswana
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Liquid realization in Rutooro
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Tumbuka prosody: Between tone and stress
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Hybrid falling tones in Limbum
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Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf)
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Implosives in Bantu A80? The case of Gyeli
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Downstep and recursive phonological phrases in Bàsàá (Bantu A43)
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Reconsidering tone and melodies in Kikamba
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Acoustic correlates of harmony classes in Somali
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Prosody & the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Tshivenḓa
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Obstacles for gradual place assimilation
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The phonetics and phonology of depressor consonants in Gengbe
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Factors in the affrication of the ejective alveolar fricative in Tigrinya
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Between tone and stress in Hamar
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Verbal gestures in Cameroon
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Contrastive focus particles in Kusaal
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Non-canonical switch-reference in Serer
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Upward-oriented complementizer agreement with subjects and objects in Kipsigis
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Serial verb nominalization in Akan: the question of intervening elements
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Verb and predicate coordination in Ibibio
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On the derivation of Swahili amba relative clausesEvidence for movement
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The aorist and the perfect in Mano
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Nominal quantification in Kipsigis
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Stem modification in Nuer
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Negation coding in Ga
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On the structure of splitting verbs in Yoruba
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Animacy is a presupposition in Swahili
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Hausa chat jargonSemantic extension versus borrowing
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Deriving an object dislocation asymmetry in Luganda
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A case based account of Bantu IAV-focus
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When Northern Swahili met southern Somali
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The syntactic diversity of SAuxOV in West Africa
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Clicks on the fringes of the Kalahari Basin Area
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Central vowels in the Kru language familyInnovation and areal spreading
Published
February 7, 2018
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Print ISSN
2511-7726
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Clem, Emily, Jenks, Peter & Sande, Hannah (eds.). 2018. Theory and description in African Linguistics: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. (Contemporary African Linguistics 4). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3365789
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978-3-96110-205-1
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2019-08-14
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10.5281/zenodo.3365789
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978-3-96110-206-8