Language and history in the light of reconstructions

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Title:	Language and history in the light of reconstructions
Editors:	Adelberger, Jörg Leger, Rudolf
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter (ISSN 0937-3039)
Issue:	22
Pages:	198
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Köln
Publisher:	Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
ISBN:	9783896457226
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	language history Nilo-Saharan languages Chadic languages
Abstract:	This issue of 'Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter' is in its wider sense devoted to 'language history'. It comprises a variety of relevant articles on language reconstruction and language use, shows the diverse scholarly approaches of the contributors towards historical aspects in a convincing way, and at the same time reflects their ongoing research interests. The different case studies presented in this volume may be seen as general outlines, but also as detailed in-depth studies which examine different views of comparative historical linguistics and oral traditions. The geographical zone dealt with covers the central and eastern Sudanic region reaching from Nigeria up to Egypt. Contributions: A guide to cognate discovery in Nilo-Saharan (Christopher Ehret); Velar prefixes in Chadic (Olga Stolbova); New reconstructions of West African economic plants (Roger Blench); Conjugation bases in the Sahidic Coptic: a reassessment (Ulrich Luft); How the West was won: ways of making history in Hone (Jukun, Nigeria) (Anne Storch). Bibliogr., notes [ASC Leiden abstract]