A linguistic geography of Africa.

Heine, Bernd

A linguistic geography of Africa. - XVIII, 371 p. ill. - Cambridge approaches to language contact .

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.

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African languages
Languages in contact--Africa
Linguistic geography