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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit Dimmendaal (review)

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit Dimmendaal (review) ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 55 NO. 2 Hewitt, B. G. 1979 Abkhaz. Lingua Descriptive Studies 2. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Serdjuýenko, G. P. 1956 Kratkij grammatiýeskij oýerk abazinskogo jazyka. In Russko-abazinskij slovar', edited by X. D. Zirov and N. B. Èkba, 593--646. Moscow: Gosudar© stvennoe Izdatel'stvo Inostrannyx i Nacional'nyx Slovarej. Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages. GERRIT DIMMENDAAL. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. Pp. xviii + 421. $158.00 (cloth), $54.00 (paper). Reviewed by Jeffrey Heath, University of Michigan Gerrit Dimmendaal states that his original concept for an undergraduate textbook ballooned into a weighty treatise, and was then scaled back to a publishable length. In spite of the label "advanced historical linguistics course book" on the back cover, the surviving work is difficult to recommend as a textbook, though it will find niche use in graduate courses on African linguistics in Europe or Anglophone Africa. It has no exercises or chapter-ending homework suggestions, so an instructor is on his or her own in that respect. It is also not cumulative, with each chapter presupposing its predecessors, in the fashion of most textbooks. Instead, it is a magisterial single-author handbook of African historical and sociolinguistics. The chapters are roughly equal in size http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by Gerrit Dimmendaal (review)

Heath, Jeffrey.
Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 55 (2) – May 18, 2013
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 55 NO. 2 Hewitt, B. G. 1979 Abkhaz. Lingua Descriptive Studies 2. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Serdjuýenko, G. P. 1956 Kratkij grammatiýeskij oýerk abazinskogo jazyka. In Russko-abazinskij slovar', edited by X. D. Zirov and N. B. Èkba, 593--646. Moscow: Gosudar© stvennoe Izdatel'stvo Inostrannyx i Nacional'nyx Slovarej. Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages. GERRIT DIMMENDAAL. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. Pp. xviii + 421. $158.00 (cloth), $54.00 (paper). Reviewed by Jeffrey Heath, University of Michigan Gerrit Dimmendaal states that his original concept for an undergraduate textbook ballooned into a weighty treatise, and was then scaled back to a publishable length. In spite of the label "advanced historical linguistics course book" on the back cover, the surviving work is difficult to recommend as a textbook, though it will find niche use in graduate courses on African linguistics in Europe or Anglophone Africa. It has no exercises or chapter-ending homework suggestions, so an instructor is on his or her own in that respect. It is also not cumulative, with each chapter presupposing its predecessors, in the fashion of most textbooks. Instead, it is a magisterial single-author handbook of African historical and sociolinguistics. The chapters are roughly equal in size

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