Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitat Oldernburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schulern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte naturlicher Sprachen berucksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschlieBlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfaltiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknupft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages b ut he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contribution are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

This volume contains the results of the Bayreuth SFB research program "Effects of globalisation processes on the vitality of languages in West African cities." Two towns with different historical and colonial background, Maiduguri in Nigeria and Banfora in Burkina Faso, were selected as research areas. The contrast between language and social institutions is most obvious in the colonial and post- colonial world in Africa. Colonization was characterized by the importation of European institutions which were of a qualitatively new nature linked to the globalising forces. This qualitative newness is captured in our term "direct globalisation." A basic observation is that the globalising forces led to a hierarchicalisation of languages in Africa which is not obviously attested in the institutions of direct globalisation. Our term "indirect globalisation" describes the alignment of local practices to the external forces and institutions introduced during a globalising colonial and post-colonial experience.

Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitat Oldernburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schulern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte naturlicher Sprachen berucksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschlieBlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfaltiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknupft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages b ut he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contribution are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.