The Subclassification of Songhay and its Historical Implications (2012)
Journal Article
Souag, L. (2012). The Subclassification of Songhay and its Historical Implications. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 33(2), 181-213. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2012-0008

This paper seeks to establish the first cladistic subgrouping of Songhay explicitly based on shared arbitrary innovations, a prerequisite both for distinguishing recent loans from valid extra-Songhay comparanda and for determining how Songhay spread.... Read More about The Subclassification of Songhay and its Historical Implications.

Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China (2012)
Book
Ferrari, R. (2012). Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China. Seagull Books

Pop Goes the Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China is the first comprehensive review of the history and development of avant-garde drama and theatre in the People’s Republic of China since 1976. Drawing on a range of critical perspe... Read More about Pop Goes The Avant-Garde: Experimental Theatre in Contemporary China.

Why Ukaan is hard to classify (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salffner, S., & Sands, B. (2012, September). Why Ukaan is hard to classify. Paper presented at The Niger-Congo International Congress, Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, Paris

In this paper, we look at Ukaan, an endangered minority language spoken in south-western Nigeria. Ukaan has not been investigated much but has nonetheless received a great number of rather different classifications, most recently as an Edoid language... Read More about Why Ukaan is hard to classify.

Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films (2012)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2012). Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films. Journal of African Cinemas, 4(1), 25-57. https://doi.org/10.1386/jac.4.1.25_1

In this article, I discuss how Nigerian film-makers respond to discourses surrounding film-making in Nigeria through using techniques of metafiction to theorize their roles as professionals and cultural mediators. Dividing my analysis into two sectio... Read More about Video Exposé: Metafiction and Message in Nigerian Films.

'They see him, but they don't recognize him because of his striking attire': Africa's changing identities and the Lingala novel (2012)
Book Chapter
Rettová, A. (2012). 'They see him, but they don't recognize him because of his striking attire': Africa's changing identities and the Lingala novel. In V. Fiala (Ed.), Multiple Identities in Post-Colonial Africa (191-202). Publishing House Moneta-FM

Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual (2012)
Book Chapter
Chang, C. B. (2012). Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual. In S. Berson, A. Bratkievich, D. Bruhn, A. Campbell, R. Escamilla, A. Giovine, L. Newbold, M. Perez, M. Piqueras-Brunet, & R. Rhomieux (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Information Structure (61-72). Berkeley Linguistics Society

Following phonological and phonetic models of loanword adaptation, I present evidence from Burmese in favor of an intermediate model of loanword adaptation incorporating both language-independent phonetics and language-particular phonology. On the ba... Read More about Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual.

Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection (2012)
Book Chapter
Salffner, S. (2012). Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection. In R. Blench, & S. McGill (Eds.), Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria (137-190). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag

This paper reports on aspects of the verbal morphology of Ikaan, an endangered minority language spoken in Nigeria. In addition to regular and obligatory tense-aspect-mood inflection, Ikaan shows a range of optional morphemes in the verb which transl... Read More about Tense, aspect and manner encoding in Ikaan beyond verbal inflection.