Gebundenes Buch

The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

Beschreibung

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, and typology and language contact more broadly.

Autor

Friederike Lüpke is Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. She studied African linguistics in Cologne and Paris and held a PhD scholarship in the Language and Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Geographically grounded in West Africa, her research centres on the description of Mande and Atlantic languages in their multilingual societal contexts, including research on literacy and writing and inclusive multilingual education. She is a leading scholar in the emerging field of small-scale multilingualism studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 220mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 2218g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736516
• ISBN-10: 0198736517
• Artikelnr.: 71266302