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Bernd Heine

Author of African Languages: An Introduction

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Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies (Afrikanistik) and Director of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany

Works by Bernd Heine

African Languages: An Introduction (2000) 50 copies
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010) — Editor — 36 copies, 1 review
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization (2002) 33 copies
The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (2007) 23 copies
The Changing Languages of Europe (2006) 20 copies
A Linguistic Geography of Africa (2008) 20 copies
Language Contact and Grammatical Change (2005) 11 copies
Approaches to grammaticalization. Volume II, Focus on types of grammatical markers (1991) — Editor — 11 copies
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar (1997) 11 copies
Approaches to grammaticalization. Volume 1, Focus on theoretical and methodological issues (1990) — Editor — 10 copies
The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization (2011) — Editor — 10 copies
Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (1991) 9 copies, 1 review
Possession (1997) 8 copies
Auxiliaries : cognitive forces and grammaticalization (1993) 7 copies
The non-Bantu languages of Kenya (Language and dialect atlas of Kenya) (1980) 4 copies
Grammaticalization (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) (2021) 3 copies
Status and use of African lingua francas (Afrika-Studien) (1970) 3 copies
On the rise of grammatical categories : some examples from Maa (1986) 3 copies
Ik dictionary (1999) 2 copies
The Waata dialect of Oromo : grammatical sketch and vocabulary (Language and dialect atlas of Kenya ; 4) (1981) 2 copies
Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages (1984) 2 copies
A typology of African languages based on the order of meaningful elements 2 copies
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective (2018) — Editor — 2 copies
Boni Dialects (Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya vol. 10) (1982) 1 copy
The Mukogodo Maasai: An Ethnobotanical Survey (1994) 1 copy
Recent German research on Africa: Language and culture : projects of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1982) 1 copy
Geographical and historical introduction (Language and dialect atlas of Kenya ; 1) (1980) 1 copy
The Labwor language of Northeastern Uganda : a grammatical sketch (2010) 1 copy
The Sam languages : a history of Rendille, Boni, and Somali 1 copy
The grammar of interactives (2023) 1 copy
Die Verbreitung und Gliederung der Togorestsprachen 1 copy
Sprache, Gesellschaft und Kommunikation in Afrika : zum Problem der Verständigung und sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung (1979) 1 copy
Conceptual shift : a lexicon of grammaticalization processes in African languages (= AAP 34/35) 1 copy
The Kuliak languages of Eastern Uganda 1 copy
Plant Concepts and Plant Use. An Ethnobotanical Survey of the Semi-Arid and Arid Lands of East Africa / Plants of the Samburu (Kenya): Part V (1988) 1 copy
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1939-05-25
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Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework by Bernd Heine
Marvelous book. Using data from African languages, the author show that human experience fashions the forms of grammar. Not an easy read, however, especially for a non-linguist.
Sep 22, 2009
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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics) by Bernd Heine
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Jun 24, 2010

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