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Year

Region

Paper Title

Status

2014

Sahara

The linguistic prehistory of the Sahara. Presented at the conference The Trans-Sahara project: State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC - AD 1500). Burials, migration, identity: Wednesday 30th April 2014 Friday 2nd May 2014. School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. Version revised for publication

Submitted

2014

General

African language isolates. Submitted as a Chapter for a book: Language Isolates. Editors: Lyle Campbell, Alex Smith, and Thomas Dougherty. Series: Routledge Language Family Series

Submitted

n.d.

General

Sibling names and the Kongo origins of Marie-Therèse Coincoin, an African plantation owner in colonial Louisiana. Draft paper by MacDonald, Blench, Mills & Morgan

In draft

2013

General

Why Is Africa So Linguistically Undiverse? Exploring Substrates and Isolates. MOTHER TONGUE, Journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory Issue XVIII, 43-68. • 50th Anniversary of J.H. Greenberg’s The Languages of Africa (1963). The first version was circulated for the workshopLanguage Isolates in Africa’ Lyon, December 3 and 4, 2010

Published

2013

General

Language, linguistics and archaeology; their integration in the study of African prehistory. Chapter for the Oxford Handbook Of African Archaeology. Peter Mitchell & Paul Lane (eds) pp. 49-64.

Published

2010

General

Imperial grammar and grassroots categories: why we should take what people say more seriously. Presentation at the Workshop: Loss and gain in grammar, with a special focus on Jukunoid and its close relatives. October 24-26 2010. Universität zu Köln

Circulated

2010

General

Flying foxes: to Borneo in search of the roots of African languages. Powerpoint presented at 40th CALL Leiden, August 23-25th 2010.

Presented

2009

Southern Africa

Was there an interchange between Cushitic pastoralists and Khoesan speakers in the prehistory of Southern Africa and how can this be detected?  Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 20:31-49. Special volume edited by Wilhelm Möhlig, Frank Seidel & Marc Seifert.

Published

2008

General

The problem of pan-African roots. In: In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory. J. Bengtson ed. 189-209. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Published

2007

General

Conference paper ‘What are ideophones about? Given at the Conference ‘Perception of the Invisible’, Köln, November 16th, 2007. Ideophones powerpoint

Published

2007

West Africa

Endangered languages in West Africa. In: Language Diversity Endangered. M. Brenzinger ed.  140-162. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter.

Published

1999

General

The languages of Africa: macrophyla proposals and implications for archaeological interpretation. In: Archaeology and Language, IV. eds. R.M. Blench and M. Spriggs. 29-47. London: Routledge.

Published

1997

General

The papers of Roland Stevenson. Nilo-Saharan Newsletter. N.S. 1:3-16.

Published

n.d.

General

Afrihili brochure scanned

Published

 

By country

 

Country

Paper Title

Ghana

Dictionary of Ghanaian English

 

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