African Mosaic: A Festschrift for JA Louw on his 75th birthday

440 pp

ISBN -10: 1868881385

ISBN-13: 9781868881383

African Mosaic is a collection of 22 scholarly contributions on African languages. The topical contributions vary from glimpses into the richness of orality, some sound systems of the languages, their structure and finally the domain where all these play a role and have particular relevance - society itself

The book honors Prof JA Louw’s contributions to the field of linguistics. It covers various topics, including language change, heritage preservation, and naming in African cultures.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Finlayson, R: (Unisa) xvii)

ORALITY

Makgamatha, P.M: (University of the North)

Narration as art in the Northern Sotho narrative: from oral to Written                             

Fortune, G: (Wales, UK)

A.C. Hodza, creative interpreter of Shona traditional poetry: a personal tribute                   

Swanepoel, C.F.: (Unisa)

The film Wend kuuni (by Gaston Kabon’. :) and the oral legacy                                     

SOUND

Traill, A.: (University of the Witwatersrand)

Foundations in Khoisan studies: a survey of a selection of papers

from Bantu Studies and African Studies, 1921-1967                                                  

Maddieson, I., Ladefoged, P. & Sands, B.: (UCLA, USA)

Clicks in East African languages                                                                                  

Snyman, J.W.: (Unisa)

The phonetic description of the zul 'hoasi clicks: a confusion of

sounds?                                                                                                                     

Odden, D.: (Ohio State University, USA)

Kikerewe minimality                                                                                                     

Haacke, W.: (University of Namibia)

Phonological gleanings from the dialects of Khoekhoegowab

(Nama/Damara): towards internal reconstruction                                                          

Roux, J.C.: (University of Stellenbosch) & Jones, C.J.J. (Unisa)

Queclaratives in Xhosa                                                                                                

Mathangwane, Joyce T. & Hyman, L.M.: (University of California,

Berkeley, USA)

Meeussen's Rule at the phrase level in Kalanga                                                                                                                                                                                                     

SOCIETY

Knappert, J.: (London, UK)

Loanwords in African languages                                                                                   

Davey, A.S.: (University of Natal, Pietermaritzhurg)

Towards an explanation of socio-cultural and behavioral differences

which hinder communication between Zulu and English speakers                                  

Slabbert, S.: (University of the Witwatersrand) & Finlayson, R.: (Unisa)

The future of the standard African languages in the multilingual

South African classroom                                                                                              

Boeyens, J.C.A.: (Unisa) & Cole, D.T.

Kaditshwene: what's in a name?                                                                                  

Louwrens, L.J.: (Unisa)

An ethnobiological investigation into Northern Sotho plant names                                  

Ntuli, D.B.: (Unisa)

Bus naming as a communication strategy - a Swaziland experience                               

STRUCTURE

Coupez, A.: (Belgium)

Inversion diachronique en Rwanda (Bantou 161)                                                          

Bosch, S.E.: (Unisa)

The reflexive prefix in Zulu - a typological perspective                                                   

Dembetembe, N.C.: (Unisa)

The classification of proper nouns in Shona: problems and possible

solutions                                                                                                                    

Nkabinde, A.C.: (Kwazulu-Natal)

Some features of Zulu nouns                                                                                       

Sengani, T.M.: (Unisa)

Another pronominalization - some views against Wilkes's deletion hypothesis 

Myers-Scotton, C.: (Columbia, USA) & Jake, J.L.: (Midlands Technical College, USA)

Chichewa/English codeswitching: the "do" verb construction