The Development of Izon Language

The Development of Izon Language
Author: Martha I. Akpana
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2002
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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A collection of six essays pertaining to the language situation in the Niger Delta region, and in particular, to the language of the Izon people. The Izon live widely dispersed along the Nigeria coastline and amongst the creeks and rivers of the Niger Delta, and their language is thought to be one of the oldest of the region. Angles addressed in this study include: language as a tool for self- development and cultural advancement; language planning for education and development; and the potentials for the study of Izon. A final chapter considers the state of publishing in Nigerian languages. Some of the contributors are the Professors Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa, Kay Williamson, and John Cecil Buseri.

The Izon of the Niger Delta

The Izon of the Niger Delta
Author: Ebiegberi Joe Alagoa
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2009-12-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788195423

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The Izon of the Niger Delta is a global history of the Izon, Ijo, or Ijaw people from their homelands in the Niger Delta, through Nigeria, the West and Central African coastlands, and in the Africa diaspora into Europe, the America's and the Caribbean. It is a preliminary study which raises questions and opens ground for further research. The book provides chapters that take an overview of issues on the environment of the Niger Delta, an analysis of the Ijo population, the language, culture, resources, history and linkage to the rest of Nigeria and the world. In effect these chapters provide a synopsis of the Ijo in the past and their situation in the present.

African Languages, Development and the State

African Languages, Development and the State
Author: Richard Fardon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134868049

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This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development

Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society

Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society
Author: Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 1129
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9785431193

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The papers here were selected from presentations made at the 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) which held at Bayero University Kano. The book contains seventy-seven (77) papers addressing various issues in linguistics, literature and cultures in Nigeria. The book is organized into four sections, as follows: Section One Language and Society; Section Two Applied Linguistics; Section Three Literature, Culture, Stylistics and Gender Studies and Section Four Formal Linguistics.

The Price of Oil

The Price of Oil
Author: Bronwen Manby
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564322258

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Attempts to Import Weapons

A Grammar of the Kolokuma Dialect of Ịjọ

A Grammar of the Kolokuma Dialect of Ịjọ
Author: Kay Williamson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521175265

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This 1969 monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of Ịjọor (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of Southern Nigeria. The dialect described, Kolokuma, is quite widely understood. The most interesting features of the language, on which the monograph concentrates, are its syntax and tonal system.

The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages

The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
Author: Martine Robbeets
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1008
Release: 2020-06-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192526782

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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.

Grammatical Tone

Grammatical Tone
Author: Nicholas Rolle
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110669619

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This book presents a typology of grammatical tone, defined as a tonological operation restricted to the context of a specific morpheme or construction. Tone languages constitute at least half the world's languages, and exhibit phonological properties which are particularly important to linguistic inquiry, e.g. its ability to be 'mobile', to interact non-locally, and to not be phonetically grounded, often radically. Grammatical tone exhibits all of these properties and more. Despite the majority of tonal languages in Africa and Central America exhibiting robust grammatical tone, no detailed study exists which details its axes of variation. This book helps to fill that gap. This book explores different ways to understand grammatical tone (as exponence vs. a process), the many types of grammatical tone (dominant vs. non-dominant), and its interaction with general tonological rules and phonological markedness. It establishes grammatical tone as crucially involving a trigger, a target, and a grammatical tune, whose interacting properties are framed here in relation to several prominent topics within linguistic theory, e.g. locality, linear directionality, hierarchical relations, modularity, cyclicity, among others. This book is written with several audiences in mind, including typologists, phonologists, syntacticians, and morphologists. In particular, it is written with non-tone specialists in mind such as fieldworkers who may be working on languages with grammatical tone.