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The Cangin Languages
Phonological and Morphological Reconstruction and Diachrony
Series: - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume: 21
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The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods. This is one of few in-depth historical treatments of a West African language family, and takes into account all existing sources, including previously unpublished data from my own work on Noon. The reconstruction of Proto-Cangin reveals a number of important features now obscured in the modern languages, including a surprisingly rich inventory of noun class prefixes, which are of great importance to the study of the worldâs largest language family, Niger-Congo. Included is a catalogue of over 600 Proto-Cangin reconstructions.
John T.M. Merrill received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2018, and has published on multiple Senegalese languages. He is currently a lecturer in the Princeton University Program in Linguistics.
List of Tables
Symbols and Abbreviations
1 Introduction
â1.1âThe Cangin Languages
â1.2âSources
â1.3âComparison with Drolc (2005)
2 Phonology
â2.1âConsonants
â2.2âVowels
â2.3âPhonotactics and Borrowing
â2.4âSummary of Sound Changes
3 Nominal Morphology
â3.1âNoun Class Morphology
â3.2âDeterminers
â3.3âNumerals
â3.4âDerivational Suffixes
â3.5âSummary
4 Verbal Morphology
â4.1âPronouns
â4.2âInflectional Morphology
â4.3âDerivational Suffixes
â4.4âSummary
5 Cangin in an Areal and Niger-Congo Context
â5.1âPhonology
â5.2âNoun Class
â5.3âVerbal Derivational Suffixes
â5.4âThe Place of Cangin within Niger-Congo
â5.5âConclusion
Appendix 1: Proto-Cangin Lexical Reconstructions
Appendix 2: Outside Cognates
References
Index
Symbols and Abbreviations
1 Introduction
â1.1âThe Cangin Languages
â1.2âSources
â1.3âComparison with Drolc (2005)
2 Phonology
â2.1âConsonants
â2.2âVowels
â2.3âPhonotactics and Borrowing
â2.4âSummary of Sound Changes
3 Nominal Morphology
â3.1âNoun Class Morphology
â3.2âDeterminers
â3.3âNumerals
â3.4âDerivational Suffixes
â3.5âSummary
4 Verbal Morphology
â4.1âPronouns
â4.2âInflectional Morphology
â4.3âDerivational Suffixes
â4.4âSummary
5 Cangin in an Areal and Niger-Congo Context
â5.1âPhonology
â5.2âNoun Class
â5.3âVerbal Derivational Suffixes
â5.4âThe Place of Cangin within Niger-Congo
â5.5âConclusion
Appendix 1: Proto-Cangin Lexical Reconstructions
Appendix 2: Outside Cognates
References
Index
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