Patterns of Linguistic Convergence in Africa

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Christopher Ehret:
Validating the Nilo-Saharan Phonological Reconstruction - The Testimony of Loanword Seriation

Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
Borrowed Grammaticalization and Grammaticalization on a Borrowing

Tom Güldemann:
Person-Gender-Number Marking from Proto-Khoe-Kwadi to Its Descendants - A Rejoinder with Particular Reference to Language Contact

Roland Kießling:
The Non-Genetic Origin of the Mungaka Language of Bali - Searching for a Superstrate

Christa Kilian-Hatz:
Passive in Khoe (Central Khoisan) - A Case of Contact-Induced Grammaticalization?

Maarten Kossmann:
Sub-Saharan Influence on Tuareg Morphology - Case of Full Reduplication

Tania Kuteva & Petra In der Smitten:
European Borders - Political and Linguistic

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig:
The Semantic Structure of the Riparian Landscape Terminology of Rumanyo in an Etymological Perspective

Salikoko S. Mufwene:
Grammaticization in the Development of Creoles

Ongaye Oda Orkaydo & Mauro Tosco:
Morphological Similarity and Contact: Plurals, Punctuals and Pluractionals in Konso and Gawwada (Cushitic, Southwest Ethiopia)

Gabriele Sommer:
How to Say 'No' in Shiyeyi - Negation, Language Change and Contact-Induced Phenomena in a South-Western Bantu Language

Zelealem Leyew:
Subordinate Clauses in Aw?i

Nachstehend finden Sie einen weiteren Sammelband zu Konvergenz-Phänomenen:

"Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area", ISBN 978-3-89645-293-1.