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The macro-areal profile of Afrabia| old_uid | 17491 |
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| title | The macro-areal profile of Afrabia |
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| start_date | 2019/04/02 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | bât. D, rdc, salle de conférence |
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| details | Areal linguistics in Africa before a new approach to its genealogical language classification |
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| summary | In addition to his first comprehensive genealogical classification of African languages, Greenberg (1959, 1983) is also the first author to deal with a fuller areal survey of the continent. This work was followed by Heine’s (1975, 1976) continent-wide survey of word-order patterns. This lecture provides an updated survey of macro-areal feature aggregations in Africa based on similar research resumed since the late 1990s by Güldemann (e.g., 1998, 2005, 2008, 2010) and Clements and Rialland (e.g., 2008). A wider areal-linguistc approach to Africa, which should include the Arabian Peninsula, must not only recognize contact-induced zones of convergence but also large areas formed by linguistic spreads as well as areas characterized by more stable linguistic diversity. The macro-areal profile emerging from this perspective will be discussed, including potential geographical correlates. |
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| responsibles | Isel |
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