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Obligatory reading / Obligatorisk kurslitteratur:

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Curnow, Timothy J. 2004. Language descriptions. In Davies, Alan & Elder, Catherine, The handbook of applied linguistics, 25–53. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Nilsson, Morgan. In prep. *Introduction to linguistics and African languages: key concepts and assignments. *University 91̽»¨.

Wolff, H. Ekkehard. 2016. Language and development in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 9, 20 pp.]

Videos, lesson slides, summaries, exercises, and other short texts distributed during the course.

Useful for reference / Användbar referenslitteratur:

All these resources are electronically available without any fees, some of them through Gothenburg University Library.

Childs, George Tucker. 2003. *An Introduction to African Languages. *Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [Selected parts, ca. 75 pages.]

Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). 2013. The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Available at

Eberhard, David M. & Simons, Gary F. & Fennig, Charles D. (eds.). 2022. *Ethnologue: Languages of the World. *25th edn. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Available at

Eifring, Halvor & Theil, Rolf. 2005. *Linguistics for Students of Asian and African Languages. *Manuscript. University of Oslo. [Chapters 1, 2.1–2.2, 5, 7, and 8 = 103 pages.]

Güldemann, Tom (ed.). 2018. *The languages and linguistics of Africa, The World of Linguistics *11. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.

Richter, Borbála (ed.). 2006. *First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. *Budapest: Bölcsész Konzorcium. [Chapters 1–6 and 8 = 95 pages.]

Vossen, Rainer & Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. (eds.). 2020. *The Oxford handbook of African languages. *Oxford: Oxford University Press.