Theory and description in African Linguistics
Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Peter Jenks, Emily Clem, Hannah Sande (editors)
Cite as
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2019.
Theory and description in African Linguistics
: Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
(Contemporary African Linguistics
).
Berlin:
Language Science Press.
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year = {2019},
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address = {Berlin},
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About this book
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.
About Peter Jenks
Peter Jenks is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a syntactician with a primary focus on crosslinguistic variation and the syntax-semantics interface. He teaches courses on syntax, semantics, typology, and fieldwork. His work examines how the the languages of East and Southeast Asia and Subsaharan Africa inform linguistic theory. Much of his research has focused on Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
About Emily Clem
Emily Clem is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on syntax and its interaction with semantics and morphology. This work, which spans topics such as case, binding, switch-reference, and concord, draws primarily on data from her fieldwork on Amahuaca, a Panoan language of Peru, and Tswefap, a Grassfields Bantoid language of Cameroon.
About Hannah Sande
Hannah Sande is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her research and teaching focus on phonology, morphology, and language documentation. Her theoretical work on the interaction of morphology and phonology is based primarily on findings from her own documentation of Kru languages in Côte d'Ivoire, and of other African languages.
Chapters
A featural analysis of mid and downstepped high tone in Babanki
Metrically conditioned vowel length in Dagaare
Backwards sibilant palatalization in a variety of Setswana
Liquid realization in Rutooro
Tumbuka prosody
Between tone and stress
Hybrid falling tones in Limbum
Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf)
Implosives in Bantu A80? The case of Gyeli
Downstep and recursive phonological phrases in Bàsàá (Bantu A43)
Reconsidering tone and melodies in Kikamba
Acoustic correlates of harmony classes in Somali
Prosody & the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Tshiven?a
Obstacles for gradual place assimilation
The phonetics and phonology of depressor consonants in Gengbe
Factors in the affrication of the ejective alveolar fricative in Tigrinya
Between tone and stress in Hamar
Verbal gestures in Cameroon
Contrastive focus particles in Kusaal
Non-canonical switch-reference in Serer
Upward-oriented complementizer agreement with subjects and objects in Kipsigis
Serial verb nominalization in Akan
the question of intervening elements
Verb and predicate coordination in Ibibio
On the derivation of Swahili amba relative clauses
The aorist and the perfect in Mano
Nominal quantification in Kipsigis
Stem modification in Nuer
On the structure of splitting verbs in Yoruba
Animacy is a presupposition in Swahili
Deriving an object dislocation asymmetry in Luganda
A case based account of Bantu IAV-focus
When Northern Swahili met southern Somali
The syntactic diversity of SAuxOV in West Africa
Clicks on the fringes of the Kalahari Basin Area
Central vowels in the Kru language family