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The Language of Hunter-Gatherers - Hardcover

 
9781107003682: The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107003687 ISBN 13: 9781107003682
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107003687
ISBN 13 
9781107003682
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
742
Editor
Güldemann Tom, McConvell Patrick, Rhodes Richard A.