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"What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the long independence struggle affect personal naming, and what are the latest name-giving trends in Namibia?This study analyses the changes in the personal naming system of the Ambo people in Namibia over the last 120 years, starting from the year 1883 when the first Ambos received biblical and European names at baptism. The central factors in this process were the German and South African colonisation and European missionary work on the one hand, and the rise of African nationalism on the other hand. Eventually, this clash between African and European naming practices led to a new and dynamic naming system which includes elements of both African and European origin.Dr. Minna Saarelma-Maunumaa is the Publishing Director of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission and the Vice-President of the Finnish-Namibian Society.""Within the field of onomastics, i.e. the scientific study of names, this study is a remarkable and extremely important one... I suspect that it will become a major and standard reference work in the future, not only regarding Ambo anthroponymy, but anthroponymy in general, particularly where cultures interact."" —Professor S.J. Neethling, University of the Western Cape, South Africa"

#VCV monografie 2003 --- Historical & comparative linguistics

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Phonetics --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonology --- Phonology. --- Phonologie --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology --- Phonetics. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Articulatory phonetics --- Orthoepy --- Linguistics --- Speech

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. It provides an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change. Each chapter describes both the linguistic and social aspects of the contact situation and how they affect the outcome. There is also discussion of the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact. The book treats all of these diverse contact phenomena in a unified empirical and theoretical framework within which both the outcomes and the processes and principles at work in each case can be identified and compared.

Languages in contact. --- Sociolinguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics --- Alternance de codes (linguistique) --- Langues en contact --- Créolisation --- Pidgins (langues) --- Sociolinguistique

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Optimality Theory and Language Change: -discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail; -treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish; -shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses; -allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies; -contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change. This volume may be used as one of the texts in courses on historical phonology or syntax that treat these topics from generative approaches or that give a general survey of various frameworks of research into these areas. Likewise, the volume may serve as a text for courses in phonology, syntax and Optimality Theory that have a component dedicated to extensions of linguistic theory to historical change. It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.

Linguistic change. --- Optimality theory (Linguistics). --- Comparative linguistics. --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Phonology. --- Syntax. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Phonology and Phonetics. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics

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Philology --- Philologie --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- Linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Working papers --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Literature --- Comparative linguistics --- Arts and Humanities. --- Literature. --- language --- linguistics --- linguistic theory --- generative grammar --- syntax --- phonology --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Linguistique