The Language of Hunter-Gatherers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009299557 ISBN 13: 9781009299558

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

About this title

About the Authors

Tom Güldemann is Professor for African linguistics and sociolinguistic at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He specializes in African linguistics with a particular focus on languages subsumed under 'Khoisan' in the Kalahari Basin area of southern Africa as well as on Bantu and wider Niger-Congo.

Patrick McConvell has worked on Australian Indigenous languages especially in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. He has published extensively on the social history of Hunter-gatherer languages in general, and language shift, code-switching and mixing of languages.

Richard A. Rhodes is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley and an internationally recognized expert in Algonquian studies. His recent work has focused on descriptive syntax and nineteenth-century-Ojibwe/Ottawa documents.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009299557
• ISBN 13: 9781009299558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 746
• Editor: Güldemann Tom