Is There an "Ethiopian Language Area"?  

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Tosco, MAURO

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 42 no. 3 (Mar. 2000), page 329-365.
Fulltext: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 329-365.pdf (4.13MB)

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This article addresses the question of whether or not there is an "Ethiopian language area," as proposed by Charles A. Ferguson in 1970. Competing approaches to the concept of "language area" are evaluated, arriving at the conclusion that the existence of a language area may be conclusively de- monstrated only in the presence of genetically unrelated languages and of a multilateral convergence process. It is further argued that the notion of an "Ethiopian language area" is false. Although the Ethiopian languages display numerous common features, these are either retentions from a common Afro- Asiatic stock or the result of long-standing unilateral contact, followed by language loss and substratal retention, but without multilateral convergence towards a common model.

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