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A linguistic geography of Africa / edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xviii, 371 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Cambridge approaches to language contact .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-353) and index.

Is Africa a linguistic area? / Bernd Heine & Zelealem Leyew -- Africa as a phonological area / G.N. Clements & Annie Rialland -- Africa as a morphosyntactic area / Denis Creissels ... [et al.] -- The macro-Sudan belt : towards identifying a linguistic area in northern sub-Saharan Africa / Tom Güldemann -- The Tanzanian Rift Valley area / Roland Kie€ling, Maarten Mous & Derek Nurse -- Ethiopia / Joachim Crass & Ronny Meyer -- The marked-nominative languages of eastern Africa / Christa König -- Africa's verb-final languages / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal.

ISBN: 9780521876117 (alk. paper) 0521876117 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2007013265

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA755616 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013795165 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African languages.
Languages in contact--Africa.
Linguistic geography.

LC Class. No.: PL8005 / .L56 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 496.09