African Linguistics Across the Disciplines

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African Linguistics Across the Disciplines is written by Samuel Gyasi Obeng and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1013294734 (ISBN 10) and 9781013294730 (ISBN 13).

Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University's Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its graduates on the faculties of many other universities. Research on African linguistics at IU has covered some of the major language groups spoken on the African continent. Carleton Hodge's work on Ancient Egyptian and Hausa, Paul Newman's work on Hausa and Chadic languages, and Roxanna Ma Newman's work on Hausa language structure and pedagogy have been some of the most important studies on Afro-Asiatic linguistics. With respect to Niger-Congo languages, the work of Charles Bird on Bambara and the Mande languages, Robert Botne's work on Bantu structure (especially tense and aspect), Samuel Obeng and Colin Painter's work on Ghanaian Languages (phonetics, phonology, and pragmatics), Robert Port's studies on Swahili, and Erhard Voeltz's st This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.