The paper offers a brief but hopefully clarificatory account of the three language families
generally referred to by linguists as Southern African Khoisan, and outlines ongoing and …

The purpose of this article is to discuss contemporary Khoesan languages in South Africa
from a sociolinguistic perspective. In order to do so, a basic explanation of Khoesan …

This thesis is concerned with syntactic mechanisms for the marking of grammatical
relationships. It is argued that there is a class of semantically vacuous functional heads …

The fact that even the most rigid head-final and head-initial languages show inconsistencies
and, more crucially, that the very languages which come closest to the ideal types (the “rigid” …

This dissertation provides a prosodic analysis of Khoekhoe (Nama), a Khoesan language
spoken by about 250,000 people in Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. Drawing on both …

This paper examines╪ Ākhoe Hai|| om, a Khoe language of the Khoisan family spoken in
Northern Namibia. I document the way questions are posed in natural conversation, the …

In southern and eastern Africa, there used to be over a hundred languages characterized by
extensively using click consonants in their phonology (Brenzinger, 2013, 1). These …

Recent years have seen a rise of KhoeSan revivalism in South Africa as identity politics in
the country reach fever pitch. Using Stuart Hall's notion of articulation and his …

Abstract The ǂKhomani San, Hugh Brody Collection features the voices and history of
indigenous hunter gatherer descendants in three endangered languages namely, N| uu …

This brief paper aims to draw attention to the widespread and ongoing phenomenon of
lexical borrowing from Khoekhoe-branch languages into regional Afrikaans. A case study of …