Read The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9)

The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9)

David Lee Schoenbrun

4.9/5 (31522 ratings)

Description:This monograph is the first comparative etymological dictionary offered for a sub-group (Great Lakes Bantu, Uganda / Rwanda / Tanzania) of African languages which includes a full accounting of that sub-group's linguistic and ethnographic sources. Whereas previous works have concentrated fruitfully on different aspects of comparative reconstruction (Nurse/Hinnebusch 1993, Ehret 1995, Guthrie 1967-1971, Meeussen 1980), this work makes arguments about the semantic histories of some 400 words based on the widest possible collection of words and meanings from 20th century sources. This wide collecting allows the reader to come to their own conclusions about semantic changes and their linguistic and social determinants. It will thus form an important source both for the language history of Bantu-speaking Africa and for the social history of Bantu-speakers. It constitutes the largest single repository of language evidence for Great Lakes Bantu, a subgroup of some 54 languages spoken around Lake Victoria and in the Kivu Rift Valley. Speakers of Great Lakes Bantu undertook major historical projects including the development of mixed farming, specializations in intensive banana farming and pastoralism, the early production of iron, and the creation of elaborate kingdoms. It will serve also as a point of reference for other researchers working elsewhere in Bantu-speaking Africa.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9). To get started finding The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 351

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

Release: 1997

ISBN

Description: This monograph is the first comparative etymological dictionary offered for a sub-group (Great Lakes Bantu, Uganda / Rwanda / Tanzania) of African languages which includes a full accounting of that sub-group's linguistic and ethnographic sources. Whereas previous works have concentrated fruitfully on different aspects of comparative reconstruction (Nurse/Hinnebusch 1993, Ehret 1995, Guthrie 1967-1971, Meeussen 1980), this work makes arguments about the semantic histories of some 400 words based on the widest possible collection of words and meanings from 20th century sources. This wide collecting allows the reader to come to their own conclusions about semantic changes and their linguistic and social determinants. It will thus form an important source both for the language history of Bantu-speaking Africa and for the social history of Bantu-speakers. It constitutes the largest single repository of language evidence for Great Lakes Bantu, a subgroup of some 54 languages spoken around Lake Victoria and in the Kivu Rift Valley. Speakers of Great Lakes Bantu undertook major historical projects including the development of mixed farming, specializations in intensive banana farming and pastoralism, the early production of iron, and the creation of elaborate kingdoms. It will serve also as a point of reference for other researchers working elsewhere in Bantu-speaking Africa.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9). To get started finding The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9)

The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary: Etymologies and Distributions (Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, #9)

More Books

A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century

A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century

The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)