Language history and linguistic description in Africa / edited by Ian Maddieson and Thomas J. Hinnebusch. - Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c1998. - x, 316 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Selected papers of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on African Lin guistics, held Mar. 23-25, 1995, in Santa Monica, Calif., sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


Chiefly in English; includes one paper in French.

0865436312 (hardcover) 0865436320 (pbk.)


African languages-- Classification.
African language-- Phonetics.
African languages-- Semantics.

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