TY  - UNPD
A1  - Heine, Bernd
A1  - Reh, Mechthild
T1  - Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages
T2  - Kölner Universalienprojekt: Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts ; Nr. 47
N2  - The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa. Thus, to our knowledge, an African language having anything that could be called an ergative case or a numeral classifier system has not been discovered so far. It may turn out that our approach can, in a modified form, be made applicable to languages outside Africa. This , however, is a possibility that has not been considered here. The present approach is based essentially on diachronic findings in that it uses observations on language evolution in order to account for structural differences between languages. Thus, it has double potential: apart from describing and explaining typological diversity it can also be material to reconstructing language history.
T3  - Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup - 47 
KW  - Sprachtypologie
KW  - Afrikanische Sprachen
Y1  - 1982
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25141
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251419
PB  - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln
CY  - Köln
ER  -