Panel 142: African waters - water in Africa, barriers, paths, and resources: their impact on language, literature and history of people (Manfred von Roncador)
Panel Organiser: Manfred von Roncador
This panel will focus on the structural and the substantial role of water in language, literature and history in Africa. Big amounts of water may be both barriers and ways for diffusion. Water as resource has determined the way of living. Both aspects are important for language development and conceptualizations.
Accepted Abstracts
Nile - Words and songs
LE BASSIN CENTRAL
CONGOLAIS ET LA PROBLEMATIQUE DE L'EXPANSION BANTOUE
The Semantics of Water and the Middle Passage:
African and Caribbean Evidence
From the Yellow Nile to the
Blue Nile. The quest for water and the diffusion of Northern East Sudanic
languages from the fourth to the first millenia BCE
Human
settlement and Bantu language dispersal in the Inner Congo Basin:
A
Correspondence (Re)analysis of Lexicostatistical Data
