Topics in Chadic Linguistics X – Papers from the 9th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Villejuif, September 7-8, 2017, edited by Henry Tourneux and Yvonne Treis, has just appeared at Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
The following papers are contained:
Paul Newman:
Russell G. Schuh – An overview of his Chadic scholarship
Umma Aliyu Musa / Esther Morgenthal / Henning Schreiber:
Less commonly documented literacy practices – Secular Hausa Ajami as situated social literacy
Sergio Baldi / Rudolf Leger:
Animal names in Hausa and Kupto – Their specific characteristics mirrored in proverbs, epithets and sayings
Gian Claudio Batic:
Verb classes and TAM system in Kushi (Nigeria)
Roger Blench:
Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages
Philippe Cassuto / Victor Porkhomovsky:
Les stratégies de traduction de l’Ancien Testament dans les trois versions haoussa de la Bible – Un problème d’interprétation ?
Emma Kuipers:
Verb classification in Mogum (Eastern Chadic)
Joseph Lovestrand:
Ideophones in Barayin
Joseph McIntyre:
Patterns of organisation in the Hausa grade system
Nina Pawlak / Joseph McIntyre:
Semantic and pragmatic motivations of gender assignment in Hausa
James Roberts / Albert Camus Soulokadi:
On ideophones in Musey
Olga Stolbova:
Lexical links between Chadic, Cushitic and Omotic languages
Henry Tourneux:
Le syntagme nominal dans le parler « kotoko » de Kousseri
Melanie Viljoen:
Gavar verb morphology
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