Editor's Preface
 
Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay: 
Writings of Wilhelm Seidensticker
 
Heinrich Bergstresser: 
Reflections on a Late Friend
 
Ludwig Gerhardt: 
Das einzige Mittel richtiger Erkenntnis und friedlichen, freundlichen Verkehrs im Menschenleben - H. Barth und die afrikanischen Sprachen
 
Dymitr Ibriszimow / Doris Löhr: 
Types, Patterns and Kinds of Lexical Distribution and Their Correlation
 
Eldridge Mohammadou: 
Climate and History in Central Sudan, 18th and 19th Centuries - Baare-Chamba Expansion from Upper Benue Region (Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, C.A.R., Gabon)
 
Christopher Y. Mtaku: 
The Role of Food in Funerals in Northeast Nigeria - Some Selected Cases
 
Eva Rothmaler: 
The Situation of Kanuri in Primary Schools in Maiduguri
 
James H. Wade / Mártha Galántha: 
Weaving Symbols - Textiles for the Living and the Dead among he Fali of the Mandara Mountains
 
Ibrahim Maina Waziri: 
The Unity of Diversity of Oral and Written Evidence in the History of Bole Fika

Tesserae of Borno: In Memory of Wilhelm Seidensticker (1938–1996) (Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin no. 16)

Heinrich Bergstresser

Rüdiger Köppe

<p>Oromo is among the most widespread African languages. It is spoken by approximately 30 million speakers in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The grammatical sketch offers an overview of Oromo's grammatical structure. In the first chapter phonology is dealt with. The author lays the main emphasis on the elaborated nominal and verbal morphology, which is considered in detail in chapter 2. The syntactical structure is the topic of the last chapter. The information is arranged in numerous charts and tables to facilitate understanding for the reader. The book is primarily meant for students of Oromo, but it is also useful for researchers who want to get an insight into the structure of Oromo. The grammatical sketch supplements the Oromo coursebook and exercise book written by the same author.</p>

A Grammatical Sketch of Written Oromo (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages)

Reference

Catherine Griefenow-Mewis

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Wolaytta is one of the major Ethiopian languages boasting around one milion native speakers. It is spoken in the south Ethiopian Provinces of Gamu Gofa and Sidamo along the banks of the river Ometo. Genetically Wolaytta belongs to the Ometo sub-branch of Omotic (West Cushitic). The present volume consists beside of a short introduction containing some historical, anthropological and cultural notes on the Wolaytta people, of a detailed synchronic description of the language, a list of more than 1,200 lexemes alphabetically ordered and integrated by several probable cognates attested in other Cushitic languages, a corpus of more than 1,100 selected Wolaytta sentences and finally a lexical index. The synchronic part of the work can be subdivided in three main parts: a phonological one devoted to the phonemic system of Wolaytta, a morphological one illustrating all the morphemes ascertained in the language and finally a syntactical part where the authors deal with the structure of the single clauses with their noun and verb phrases as well as several periphrastic constructions.

The Wolaytta Language (Studia linguarum africae orientalis vol. 6)

Marcello Lamberti

Iraqw-English Dictionary with an English and a Thesaurus Index (Cushitic Language Studies)

Roland Kiessling

Maarten Mous

Martha Qorro

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Namibian Languages: Reports and Papers (Namibian African Studies)

Wilhelm J. Möhlig

The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary. Etymologies and Distributions

David L. Schoenbrun

Words, Language & Grammar

<p>The Kisi language belongs to the Atlantic languages of the Niger-Congo language family and is spoken by more than half a million people. Geographically, the language is spoken primarily in the Republic of Guinea, where it functions as one of the national languages, but also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The book is the first comprehensive Kisi-English dictionary. The author gathered the linguistic material during several field studies during 1983–2000. Mostly it is drawn from the southern Kisi dialect. Following a short grammatical sketch, the 6,000 lexical entries are complemented by numerous examples illustrating their use and various meanings. An attempt was made to render the meaning of the numerous ideophones as closely as possible by providing extensive English paraphrases. The individual lexemes are complemented with grammatical information, e.g. indicating membership to one of the seven noun classes, and detailing the origin of derived verbs as part of the subcategorization information. The language has lexical and grammatical tone, and vowel length is contrastive. Both prosodic parameters are reflected in the notation of the entries. An English-Kisi index allows for easy cross-referencing. – "[…] this extensive work is of major importance for anyone interested in the Kisi language and culture, but also for those involved in comparative studies of African languages." (Guillaume Segerer in "Journal of African Languages and Linguistics" 26/2, 2005, 210-211)</p>

A Dictionary of the Kisi Language: With an English-Kisi Index (Westafrikanische Studien)

G. Tucker Childs

Phénomènes de contact entre les langues minyanka et bambara (sud du Mali) (Gur Monographs · Monographies Voltaïques, 3)

Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn

Dictionnaire Sénoufo – Français

Richard Mills

African Linguistics at the Crossroads : Papers from Kwaluseni - 1st World Congress of African Linguistics, Swaziland, 18-22, VII, 1994

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