Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics - Series page

pp ii-ii

The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Tables

pp viii-x

Maps

pp xi-xi

Contributors

pp xii-xv

Preface

pp xvi-xviii

General Introduction

pp xix-xxiii

Abbreviations and Acronyms

pp xxiv-xxxii

Introduction

pp 1-30

1 - African Linguistics: Conceptions and Scope

pp 3-30

Part I - Short Regional Histories of African Linguistics

pp 31-136

2 - African Linguistics in Europe

pp 33-58

3 - African Linguistics in North and in So-Called Francophone Africa

pp 59-72

4 - African Linguistics in North-Eastern and So-Called Anglophone Africa

pp 73-97

5 - African Linguistics in So-Called Lusophone and Hispanophone Africa and in Southern Africa

pp 98-114

6 - African Linguistics in the Americas, Asia, and Australia

pp 115-136

Part II - Comparative and Descriptive African Linguistics

pp 137-416

7 - Comparative African Linguistics

pp 139-165

8 - A Typological and Areal Perspective of African Languages

pp 166-190

9 - Niger-Congo Linguistic Features and Typology

pp 191-245

10 - Afroasiatic Linguistic Features and Typologies

pp 246-325

11 - Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Nilo-Saharan’

pp 326-381

12 - Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Khoisan’

pp 382-416

Part III - African Languages in Cultures and Societies

pp 417-574

13 - Sociocultural and Political Settings of Language in Africa

pp 419-441

14 - Into and Out of Africa: The Sociolinguistics of European and Asian Languages in Africa and of the African Diaspora

pp 442-467