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Eastern and Southern African Khoisan: Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships (Research in Khoisan Studies)

Eastern and Southern African Khoisan: Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships (Research in Khoisan Studies)

Bonny Eva Sands
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The intern sub-grouping of Khoisan languages was up to now problematic due to the lack of data and the partially distant or questionable relations between the different languages. In the present study Bonny Sands develops a model for the comparison of eastern and southern african Khoisan languages whose intention does not lie in a polar yes/ no answer regarding genetic affiliation and sub-grouping, but an inside in grade and nature of similarities between the languages in question. The model is based on the statistical analysis of a 100-word list, on lexeme comparison by means of an extended list containing core vocabulary as well as synonyms. Furthermore words from certain semantic fields were compared in order to uncover similarities between lexemes which underwent a semantic shift in the course of language development. The noun class system, too, was part of the study, founded on the hypothesis that the nominal root originally had the structure CV in all Khoisan languages, from which follows that all other sound sequences in nouns are traces of nominal classes. Subsequently, suppletives and synonyms are compared. A test with regard to regular sound correspondences completes the tests. The value of the work lies, among other things in the complete data material on which the comparison is based. Sources so far inaccessible were taken into consideration. Data from the author’s own fieldwork on Hadza also influenced the description.
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Perfect Paperback
Release
January 01, 1998
ISBN 13
9783896451422

Eastern and Southern African Khoisan: Evaluating Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships (Research in Khoisan Studies)

Bonny Eva Sands
0/5 ( ratings)
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The intern sub-grouping of Khoisan languages was up to now problematic due to the lack of data and the partially distant or questionable relations between the different languages. In the present study Bonny Sands develops a model for the comparison of eastern and southern african Khoisan languages whose intention does not lie in a polar yes/ no answer regarding genetic affiliation and sub-grouping, but an inside in grade and nature of similarities between the languages in question. The model is based on the statistical analysis of a 100-word list, on lexeme comparison by means of an extended list containing core vocabulary as well as synonyms. Furthermore words from certain semantic fields were compared in order to uncover similarities between lexemes which underwent a semantic shift in the course of language development. The noun class system, too, was part of the study, founded on the hypothesis that the nominal root originally had the structure CV in all Khoisan languages, from which follows that all other sound sequences in nouns are traces of nominal classes. Subsequently, suppletives and synonyms are compared. A test with regard to regular sound correspondences completes the tests. The value of the work lies, among other things in the complete data material on which the comparison is based. Sources so far inaccessible were taken into consideration. Data from the author’s own fieldwork on Hadza also influenced the description.
Language
English
Pages
251
Format
Perfect Paperback
Release
January 01, 1998
ISBN 13
9783896451422

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