The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

by Lüpke, Friederike

• ISBN13: 9780198736516
• ISBN10: 0198736517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-09-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Friederike Lüpke, Professor of African Studies, University of Helsinki

Friederike Lüpke is Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. She studied African linguistics in Cologne and Paris and held a PhD scholarship in the Language and Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Geographically grounded in West Africa, her research centres on the description of Mande and Atlantic languages in their multilingual societal contexts, including research on literacy and writing and inclusive multilingual education. She is a leading scholar in the emerging field of small-scale multilingualism studies.

Table of Contents

Part I. Background and classification of the Atlantic languages1. Language, land, and languaging in the Atlantic space, Friederike Lüpke2. A genealogical classification of Atlantic languages, Konstantin Pozdniakov and Guillaume Segerer3. Genetically-motivated clusters within Atlantic, G. Tucker ChildsPart II. Individual languages and language clusters4. Wolof, Stéphane Robert5. Fula, Raija Kramer6. Casamance Creole, Noël Bernard Biagui, Joseph Jean-François Nunez, and Nicolas Quint7. Mandinka, Denis Creissels8. Bassari, Loïc Perrin9. Joola Fooñi, Alain-Christian Bassène10. Joola Kujireray, Rachel Watson11. Joola Keeraak, Stéphane Robert and Guillaume Segerer12. Baïnounk Gubëeher, Alexander Y. Cobbinah13. Djifanghor Nyun (Baïnounk), Nicolas Quint14. Baïnounk Gujaher, Friederike Lüpke15. Balant (Ganja), Denis Creissels16. Sua, Guillaume Segerer17. Nalu, Frank Seidel18. Baga Mandori, Frank Seidel19. Kisi, G. Tucker Childs20. Bom-Kim, G. Tucker ChildsPart III. Atlantic languages from a comparative and typological perspective21. Noun inflection and gender in Atlantic languages, Denis Creissels22. Noun class semantics in Atlantic, Alexander Y. Cobbinah23. Nominalization in Atlantic, Rachel Watson24. Verbal extensions in Atlantic languages, Sylvie Voisin25. Atlantic consonant mutation, Fiona McLaughlinPart IV. Atlantic languages in their multilingual environment26. Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: The example of Sierra Leone, Jacqueline Knörr27. Ajami writing practices in Atlantic-speaking Africa, Fiona McLaughlin28. Secret languages in the Atlantic area, Anne Storch, Jules-Jaques Coly, and Sophie Wade29. Multilingual children's language socialization in central Mali, Ibrahima Abdoul Hayou Cissé30. The spread of Fula as lingua franca in Northern Cameroon: Social factors and linguistic outcomes, Jean Pierre Boutché31. Digital language and new configurations of multilingualism: Writing in a Senegal-based discussion forum, Kristin Vold Alexander and Daniel Alcón32. Multilingual people and monolingual perceptions: Patterns of multilingualism in Essyl, Basse Casamance, Senegal, Samantha Goodchild