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Cangin Languages

Phonological and Morphological Reconstruction and Diachrony

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvJohn Merrill,John T. M. Merrill,John T M Merrill

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The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods. This is one of few in-depth historical treatments of a West African language family, and takes into account all existing sources, including previously unpublished data from my own work on Noon. The reconstruction of Proto-Cangin reveals a number of important features now obscured in the modern languages, including a surprisingly rich inventory of noun class prefixes, which are of great importance to the study of the world’s largest language family, Niger-Congo. Included is a catalogue of over 600 Proto-Cangin reconstructions.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-26
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor288
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004520028

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List of TablesSymbols and Abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 The Cangin Languages1.2 Sources1.3 Comparison with Drolc (2005)2 Phonology2.1 Consonants2.2 Vowels2.3 Phonotactics and Borrowing2.4 Summary of Sound Changes3 Nominal Morphology3.1 Noun Class Morphology3.2 Determiners3.3 Numerals3.4 Derivational Suffixes3.5 Summary4 Verbal Morphology4.1 Pronouns4.2 Inflectional Morphology4.3 Derivational Suffixes4.4 Summary5 Cangin in an Areal and Niger-Congo Context5.1 Phonology5.2 Noun Class5.3 Verbal Derivational Suffixes5.4 The Place of Cangin within Niger-Congo5.5 ConclusionAppendix 1: Proto-Cangin Lexical ReconstructionsAppendix 2: Outside CognatesReferencesIndex