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2010 | 44 | 29-45

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What is new in Ethiopian and other African language areas?

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Le ‘Sprachbnud’ de l’Afrique Nord-Est ou, autrement, Macroethiopien, existe malgre des oppositions hypercritiques de certains linguists. Il englobe au moins 9 moindre ‘Sprachbuende’ que j’ai déjà identifie en 1991 et, a cette occasion, j’ai aussi demontré que seulement 6 traits des langues appartenant a ce ‘Sprachbund’, figurant sur la liste de Ferguson (et de Bender!) de 1976, peuvent etre considerés comme etant apparus a la suite de contacts et d’interferences, tandis que les autres traits communs decolent de la parente dans le cadre du semitique et du chamitosemitique. Je propose, au total traits types pour ce ‘Sprachbund’, auxquels il faut ajouter ceux etablis par Crass, Meyer et Bisang et cette liste sera, tres probablement, elargie. En Afrique, il existe de nombreux autres ‘Sprachbuende’ qui, souvent, s’embriquent, mais ne sont pas fondés, notamment a cause d’un degré trop elevé de generalité et du hasard, les tentative de considerer toute l’Afrique comme un seul grand ‘Sprachbund’ et de chercher des traits pretendument africains typiques.

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2010-12-10

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  • Jagiellonian University, Cracow

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