| Guinea Languages of the Atlantic Group: Description and Internal Classification Contributor(s): Voßen, Rainer (Editor), Storch, Anne (Author), Wilson, André (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631551703 ISBN-13: 9783631551707 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $100.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
| Dewey: 496.32 |
| LCCN: 2007451766 |
| Series: Research in African Studies |
| Physical Information: 274 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Atlantic is one of the most diversified and most problematic Niger-Congo families as far as evidence for a monogenetic origin is concerned. Moreover, the group remains poorly known. Besides well-studied languages such as Fula, Wolof and Serer some sixty lesser known languages of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are currently believed to belong to Atlantic. Many of these languages are not yet documented, and some never will - they disappeared some decades ago or are just on the verge of extinction. This book provides an overview of Atlantic south of the Wolof, Serer and Fula-speaking regions. The sections on the various Atlantic languages present information on phonology, morphology and basic syntacticpatterns by using General Linguistic Theory. Lexical material is presented in comparative wordlists. All data stem from the author's own fieldwork in the 1950s and 1960s in Guinea Bissau and Guinea. |
