Classification Of The Chaga Dialects: Language And History On Kilimanjaro, The Taita Hills, And The Pare Mountains

By Derek Nurse

Derek Nurse. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis, University Of Dar Es Salaam. Bibliography: P. 564-582.

Historical Language Contact In Africa

By Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Derek Nurse, H. Ekkehard Wolff, D. Nurse, Herman M. Batibo, Maarten Mous, Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu, Anthony Traill, Ousseina Alidou, Christopher Ehret, Bruce Connell, Russell G. Schuh, Deo S. Ngonyani, Benji Wald

Inheritance, Contact And Change In Two East African Languages

By Derek Nurse, D. Nurse

Introduction -- Inheritance, Contact, And Change In Daiso -- Inheritance, Contact, And Change In Ilwana -- Summary, Other Cases, Discussion, Suggestions For The Future. Derek Nurse. Includes Biblio...

Bantu Languages

By Derek Nurse, Nurse/Philoppso, Gérard Philippson, Ed. By Derek Nurse And Gérard Philippson

Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de...

African Languages: An Introduction

By Derek Nurse, Bernd Heine, Bernd Heine And Derek Nurse

Niger-congo / Kay Williamson And Roger Blench -- Nilo-saharan / Lionel M. Bender -- Afroasiatic / Richard J. Hayward -- Khoisan / Tom Güldemann And Rainer Vossen -- Phonology / G.n. Clements -- Mor...

African Languages: An Introduction

By Derek Nurse, Bernd Heine, Bernd Heine And Derek Nurse

this Book Is The First General Introduction To African Languages And Linguistics To Be Published In English. It Covers The Four Major Language Groupings (niger-congo, Nilo-saharan, Afroasiatic And...

A Linguistic Geography Of Africa

By Derek Nurse, Bernd Heine

An Edited Collection Of Essays Discussing The Linguistic Relationships Between African Languages.

The Swahili: Reconstructing The History And Language Of An African Society, 800-1500

By Derek Nurse, Thomas T. Spear, NetLibrary, Inc

"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of A...

The Swahili

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

The authors, respectively a linguist specializing in Swahili and related Bantu languages and a historian specializing in the history of East Africa, have assembled an impressive array of evidence--...

Tense And Aspect In Bantu

By Derek Nurse

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern,...