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Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas, with Special Reference to Africa ed. by Osamu Hieda, Christa König, Hirosi Nakagawa (review)

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas, with Special Reference to Africa ed. by Osamu Hieda,... 2013 BOOK REVIEWS 397 with some modifier X (perhaps a determiner), as *[Noun-NC] X, with the sandwiched NC marker surviving while the one at the (prosodically vulnerable?) left edge was elided? We knew about the complexly “mixed” language Ma’a or Mbugu from prior litera- ture, and we are becoming aware of the richness and dynamism of urban youth lan- guages, especially from South African sociolinguists. Storch wants to push this angle much harder, making language ideology and special registers central to synchronic and historical linguistics. The point is in theory equally valid for native languages of the Americas, Australia, etc., where, however, it is too late to gather the necessary evidence. In Africa, special registers can still be documented to some extent, at least in areas where Christianity and Islam have not ruthlessly clamped down on native traditions. While the present book is disappointing in some ways, mostly organizational and stylistic, it does make a case for a shift in emphasis. Storch is an omnivorous reader, and several of the works cited are hard-to-find “catches” that one wants to follow up, such as the piece by Dugast (1950) with the material on Sultan Ibrahim Njoya. Minor bib- liographical points: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas, with Special Reference to Africa ed. by Osamu Hieda, Christa König, Hirosi Nakagawa (review)

Heath, Jeffrey
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 55 (4) – Oct 1, 2014
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2013 BOOK REVIEWS 397 with some modifier X (perhaps a determiner), as *[Noun-NC] X, with the sandwiched NC marker surviving while the one at the (prosodically vulnerable?) left edge was elided? We knew about the complexly “mixed” language Ma’a or Mbugu from prior litera- ture, and we are becoming aware of the richness and dynamism of urban youth lan- guages, especially from South African sociolinguists. Storch wants to push this angle much harder, making language ideology and special registers central to synchronic and historical linguistics. The point is in theory equally valid for native languages of the Americas, Australia, etc., where, however, it is too late to gather the necessary evidence. In Africa, special registers can still be documented to some extent, at least in areas where Christianity and Islam have not ruthlessly clamped down on native traditions. While the present book is disappointing in some ways, mostly organizational and stylistic, it does make a case for a shift in emphasis. Storch is an omnivorous reader, and several of the works cited are hard-to-find “catches” that one wants to follow up, such as the piece by Dugast (1950) with the material on Sultan Ibrahim Njoya. Minor bib- liographical points:

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Anthropological Linguistics – University of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 1, 2014

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