A Linguistic Geography of Africa

by Bernd Heine

Book Overview

More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarities and dissimilarities among African languages are the result of contact between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521182697
• ISBN13: 9780521182690
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"