Historical implications of a linguistic environment - towards a systemic approach

The aim of our project B6 “Towards a genesis of the ethnolinguistic situation at the southern and western fringes of lake Chad basin” within SFB 268 “West African Savannah” is to analyse the emergence and development of the complex presentday ethnolinguistic patterns in a region which may be historically labelled as southern and western periphery of the Borno empire. For the first time, a model of migratory routes was put forward based on combined research efforts of the disciplines involved in our project. Below we shall attempt to summarise the main points and reflections of our findings. Our specific approach as a whole is based on applying the respective research methods of the individual disciplines represented in our project, namely anthropology, ethnomusicology, history and linguistics and eventually on integrating the results into a systemically coherent pictur

Systèmes de marques personnelles en Afrique

Cet ouvrage est le fruit d'une collaboration entre l'université de Bayreuth (départements Afrikanistik I et II) et l'unité mixte de recherche Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire (LLACAN, UMR 8135, CNRS-INALCO).Les onze articles ici réunis présentent des données de plus de 250 langues d'Afrique. Le matériau utilisé est souvent inédit et de première main, et constitue de ce fait un corpus unique