{"product_id":"the-cangin-languages-phonological-and-morphological-reconstruction-and-diachrony-9789004520028","title":"The Cangin Languages: Phonological and Morphological Reconstruction and Diachrony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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treatments of a West African language family, and takes into account all existing sources, including previously unpublished data from my own work on Noon.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 world’s largest language family, Niger-Congo. Included is a catalogue of over 600 Proto-Cangin reconstructions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables  Symbols and Abbreviations    1 Introduction   1.1 The Cangin Languages   1.2 Sources   1.3 Comparison with Drolc (2005)    2 Phonology   2.1 Consonants   2.2 Vowels   2.3 Phonotactics and Borrowing   2.4 Summary of Sound Changes    3 Nominal Morphology   3.1 Noun Class Morphology   3.2 Determiners   3.3 Numerals   3.4 Derivational Suffixes   3.5 Summary    4 Verbal Morphology   4.1 Pronouns   4.2 Inflectional Morphology   4.3 Derivational Suffixes   4.4 Summary    5 Cangin in an Areal and Niger-Congo Context   5.1 Phonology   5.2 Noun Class   5.3 Verbal Derivational Suffixes   5.4 The Place of Cangin within Niger-Congo   5.5 Conclusion    Appendix 1: Proto-Cangin Lexical Reconstructions  Appendix 2: Outside Cognates  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210847773015,"sku":"9789004520028","price":119.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cangin-languages-phonological-and-morphological-reconstruction-and-diachrony-9789004520028","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}