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Rainer Vossen

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ID168134
NAMERainer Vossen
GIVEN NAMESRainer
FAMILY NAMEVossen
SIGNATUREVOSSEN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bayreuth
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2
  • The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

    Rainer Vossen, Gerrit J Dimmendaal•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of African…•2020

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one-third of the world’s languages, usually classified into four phyla—Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan—which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume …

  • Oxford Handbook of African Languages

    Gerrit J Dimmendaal, Rainer Vossen•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of African…•2020

  • Historical classification of Khoe (central khoisan) languages of Southern Africa

    Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•African Studies•1998•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • English-Jul'Hoan / Jul'Hoan-English Dictionary

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1996

  • Maasai-Frauen: Leben in einer patriarchalischen Gesellschaft: Feldforschung bei den Parakuyo, Tansania. Ulrike VON MITZLAFF

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1992

  • What Do We Do with Irregular Correspondences? The Case of the Khoe Languages

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•History in Africa•1991•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    There is nothing that cannot be related directly or indirectly to anything else, and it is this nightmare that is horrifying. There seems to be no precedent for this sort of chaos in the languages of the world... (Traill 1974:251) Regularity of phonological change is considered a basic principle of historico-linguistic reconstruction. In 1876 A. Leskien of the Leipzig school of neogrammarians formulated the postulate of sound change occurring wit…

  • Labour, Language and Power in the Construction of Ethnicity in Botswana

    Open Access•Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•1990•Cited by: 18•References: 21

    L'evolution des solutions interethniques et la formation des classes sociales selon un clivage ethnique au Botswana depuis l'epoque coloniale. A la domination des Tswana sur les autres ethnies et en particulier sur les Bushmen du Kalahari correspond une domination de leur langue et meme une modification phonetique de celle des Bushmen. L'evolution economique place les ouvriers dans la position la plus favorisee et les petits agricultuers en bas d…

  • The symbols for clicks

    Open Access•Oswin Köhler, Peter Ladefoged et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the International…•1988•Cited by: 1•References: 3

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  • The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions

    Ben G Blount, Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1984

  • Die Oralliteratur der Balese-Efe im Ituri-Wald (Nordost-Zaïre), mil einem musikwissenschaftlichen Anhang von Rudolf Maria Brandl. By Anton Vorbichler [Texts with German translation] St. Augustin bei B…

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•Africa•1981

    Die Oralliteratur der Balese-Efe im Ituri-Wald (Nordost-Zaïre), mil einem musikwissenschaftlichen Anhang von Rudolf Maria Brandl. By Anton Vorbichler [Texts with German translation] St. Augustin bei Bonn: Anthropos-Insitut1979. xv, 349p., map, music, plates, bibl. Studia Instituti Anthropos, 34. DM 132. - Volume 51 Issue 1

  • Labour, Language and Power in the Construction of Ethnicity in Botswana

    Open Access•Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•1990•Cited by: 18•References: 21

    L'evolution des solutions interethniques et la formation des classes sociales selon un clivage ethnique au Botswana depuis l'epoque coloniale. A la domination des Tswana sur les autres ethnies et en particulier sur les Bushmen du Kalahari correspond une domination de leur langue et meme une modification phonetique de celle des Bushmen. L'evolution economique place les ouvriers dans la position la plus favorisee et les petits agricultuers en bas d…

  • What Do We Do with Irregular Correspondences? The Case of the Khoe Languages

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•History in Africa•1991•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    There is nothing that cannot be related directly or indirectly to anything else, and it is this nightmare that is horrifying. There seems to be no precedent for this sort of chaos in the languages of the world... (Traill 1974:251) Regularity of phonological change is considered a basic principle of historico-linguistic reconstruction. In 1876 A. Leskien of the Leipzig school of neogrammarians formulated the postulate of sound change occurring wit…

  • Historical classification of Khoe (central khoisan) languages of Southern Africa

    Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•African Studies•1998•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • The symbols for clicks

    Open Access•Oswin Köhler, Peter Ladefoged et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the International…•1988•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Die Oralliteratur der Balese-Efe im Ituri-Wald (Nordost-Zaïre), mil einem musikwissenschaftlichen Anhang von Rudolf Maria Brandl. By Anton Vorbichler [Texts with German translation] St. Augustin bei B…

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•Africa•1981

    Die Oralliteratur der Balese-Efe im Ituri-Wald (Nordost-Zaïre), mil einem musikwissenschaftlichen Anhang von Rudolf Maria Brandl. By Anton Vorbichler [Texts with German translation] St. Augustin bei Bonn: Anthropos-Insitut1979. xv, 349p., map, music, plates, bibl. Studia Instituti Anthropos, 34. DM 132. - Volume 51 Issue 1

  • The Eastern Nilotes: Linguistic and Historical Reconstructions

    Ben G Blount, Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1984

  • The symbols for clicks

    Open Access•Oswin Köhler, Peter Ladefoged et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the International…•1988•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Labour, Language and Power in the Construction of Ethnicity in Botswana

    Open Access•Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.•ARTICLE•Critique of Anthropology•1990•Cited by: 18•References: 21

    L'evolution des solutions interethniques et la formation des classes sociales selon un clivage ethnique au Botswana depuis l'epoque coloniale. A la domination des Tswana sur les autres ethnies et en particulier sur les Bushmen du Kalahari correspond une domination de leur langue et meme une modification phonetique de celle des Bushmen. L'evolution economique place les ouvriers dans la position la plus favorisee et les petits agricultuers en bas d…

  • What Do We Do with Irregular Correspondences? The Case of the Khoe Languages

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•History in Africa•1991•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    There is nothing that cannot be related directly or indirectly to anything else, and it is this nightmare that is horrifying. There seems to be no precedent for this sort of chaos in the languages of the world... (Traill 1974:251) Regularity of phonological change is considered a basic principle of historico-linguistic reconstruction. In 1876 A. Leskien of the Leipzig school of neogrammarians formulated the postulate of sound change occurring wit…

  • Maasai-Frauen: Leben in einer patriarchalischen Gesellschaft: Feldforschung bei den Parakuyo, Tansania. Ulrike VON MITZLAFF

    Open Access•Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1992

  • English-Jul'Hoan / Jul'Hoan-English Dictionary

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1996

  • Historical classification of Khoe (central khoisan) languages of Southern Africa

    Rainer Vossen•ARTICLE•African Studies•1998•Cited by: 2•References: 4

  • The Oxford Handbook of African Languages

    Rainer Vossen, Gerrit J Dimmendaal•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of African…•2020

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one-third of the world’s languages, usually classified into four phyla—Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan—which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume …

  • Oxford Handbook of African Languages

    Gerrit J Dimmendaal, Rainer Vossen•BOOK•Oxford Handbook of African…•2020

Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)

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