journal: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

Impact Factor: 0.5

Veröffentlicht seit 1. Januar 1979

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

ISSN: 1613-3811

Herausgegeben von: Felix K. Ameka, Azeb Amha

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Objective
The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979 and has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics welcomes original contributions on all aspects of African language studies, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented. The journal further contains a list of recently published books on African languages and linguistics, which many libraries find to be of use for the acquisition of books. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.

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Any topic within African languages and linguistics studies

Article formats
Research articles, Book reviews

Contributors should submit their manuscripts prepared following the guidelines in the Instructions for authors. The manuscripts should be submitted per e-mail to jall@hum.leidenuniv.nl

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The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979.

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Band 44 Heft 1

Mai 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 3. Juli 2023

Frontmatter

Seiten: i-iv

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Articles

30. Juni 2023

The first person prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic

Maria Bulakh

Seiten: 1-23

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Abstract

South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1 sg/ 1 pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1 pl suffix is often employed in the Prefix Conjugation. In forms with 1 sg/ 1 pl syncretism, this suffix takes over the functional load of the plural marker. Both features are innovative in SES, and their absence from a number of languages in each of the main subbranches suggests areal diffusion rather than a shared innovation going back to the Proto-SES level. In former studies, it has been suggested that the innovative 1 pl suffix was borrowed from Cushitic and that its introduction has triggered the 1 sg/ 1 pl syncretism. This hypothesis is critically reassessed in the present paper, which considers in detail various patterns of 1 sg/ 1 pl syncretism and various patterns of its interaction with the 1 pl suffix, and offers a tentative reconstruction of their emergence and spread in the languages in question.

30. Juni 2023

A corpus analysis of Swahili’s dual-complementizer system

Aron Finholt, John Gluckman

Seiten: 25-48

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Tanzanian Swahili has two complementizers, kuwa and kwamba , both used to introduce finite embedded clauses. We explore whether the complementizers are in free variation, as reported in all descriptive and pedagogical work. Our study primarily relies on corpus data, which we supplement with native speaker judgments. We find that the complementizers are not in free variation, but in fact are affected by a number of factors known to affect embedded clauses cross-linguistically, including predicate class, person features of the main-clause subject, and mood in the embedded clause. We conclude that the complementizers ultimately reflect subtle, pragmatic factors concerning how the truth of the embedded clause should be evaluated. Our study expands on previous work on languages with so-called “dual-complementizer” systems.

30. Juni 2023

Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes: exploring embodiment in the Efik feeling lexica

Eyo O. Mensah, Vivian Afi Dzokoto

Seiten: 49-75

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Abstract

Languages feature labels used to name various feeling states, referred to as emotion lexica. Language-specific linguistic features patterned after culturally-shaped templates such as somatic referencing, make each emotion lexicon unique. This study investigates somatic referencing in the emotion lexicon of the Efik ethnolinguistic group obtained through ethnographic linguistic fieldwork in South-eastern Nigeria. Our analysis revealed that in the Efik language, nearly fifty body-centered lexemes serve as the primary labels for a variety of feeling states. The identified emotion terms incorporated specific body parts, various parts of the face, as well as the generalized body. In each instance, the body referent constituted part of the internal structure of the feeling label. Our findings complement existing emotion research examining the cultural scripting of emotion experiences as well as their expression and communication.

30. Juni 2023

Adpositions and adpositional relator nouns in Akebu

Andrey Shluinsky

Seiten: 77-117

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This paper presents an overview, based on field data, of the adpositional system in Akebu, a Kwa (Ghana-Togo Mountain) language of West Africa. Like other Kwa languages, Akebu has both linear types of adpositions. Prepositions are not numerous and are fully grammaticalized. Two prepositions are used very widely, one of them expressing a comitative meaning and a number of related ones, the other having a generalized locative meaning, as well as other ones. In contrast, postpositions are more numerous, but most of them are weakly grammaticalized relator nouns that express the meanings of locational orientations and keep nominal morphology and independent uses. Still, grammaticalized postpositions are also present, the most common of them being a postposition that expresses apudessive, i.e. near, next to, orientation.

Obituary

30. Juni 2023

Philip J. Jaggar 1945–2023

Paul Newman, Roxana Ma Newman

Seiten: 119-121

Book Review

30. Juni 2023

Newman, Paul: A history of the Hausa language: reconstruction and pathways to the present

Bernard Caron

Seiten: 123-126

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Journal Impact Factor	0.5	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.3	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
Journal Citation Indicator	0.14	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
CiteScore	0.7	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.144	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.278	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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All contributions, as well as books for review, and all correspondence concerning editorial matters are to be sent to Dr. Felix Ameka.

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Editorial

Felix K. Ameka
African Languages and Cultures
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
e-mail: F.K.Ameka@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Azeb Amha
African Studies Centre Leiden
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands

Emeritus Founding Editor
Paul Newman
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Editorial Assistant
Isabella Jordanoska
Leiden University, The Netherlands
e-mail: jall@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Executive Committee
Enoch O. Aboh
Anneke O. Breedveld
Maarten Kossmann
Constance Kutsch Lojenga
Maarten Mous
Saskia van Putten
Thilo C. Schadeberg
Harry Stroomer

Editorial Board
Thomas Bearth (Zurich, Switzerland)
Hounkpati B. C. Capo (Garome)
Lars Hellan (Trondheim, Norway)
Larry M. Hyman (Berkeley, USA)
Lutz Marten (London, UK)
Joyce T. Mathangwane (Gaborone, Botswana)
A. Motingea Mangulu (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Gerard Philippson (Paris/Lyon, France)
Mechthild Reh (Hamburg, Germany)
Eno-Abasi Urua (Uyo, Nigeria)
Baye Yimam (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

(English)

Online ISSN: 1613-3811
Print ISSN: 0167-6164
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1979
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: researchers and professionals in the field of African languages and linguistics