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Author_Lee Bickmore
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cilungu
dead
deletion
dialect
endangered language
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extinction
glides
grammar
indigenous
linguistics
lungu
manual
mid vowel harmony
morphology
nasal demorification
native
nominal
nonfiction
pre-stem shortening
reference
regional languages
representation
tanzania
tonal processes
tonology
trimoraic pruning
urbanization
verbal
zambia
Product details
- ISBN 9781575865508
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2007
- Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cilungu is an underrepresented language spoken in northern Zambia and Tanzania whose future is far from certain, given ongoing urbanization and the ascendancy of other regional languages. The product of over fifteen years of fieldwork, "Cilungu Phonology" presents a comprehensive description and analysis of this endangered language. Featuring a reference grammar and formal analysis of Cilungu, this volume will be a major contribution to our understanding of tonology, since several of the forty-four processes analyzed appear to be unique to the language. It also includes a discussion of morphology, both nominal and verbal.
Lee Bickmore is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and its program in linguistics and cognitive science at the University at Albany.
