Morphosyntactic Variation In East African Bantu Languages
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Author |
: Hannah Gibson |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2024-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783985540914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3985540918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages by : Hannah Gibson
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics. The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages. The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.
Author |
: Eva-Marie Bloom-Strom |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198821352 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198821359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu by : Eva-Marie Bloom-Strom
This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu languages as well as drawing on a wider comparative set of more than 200 languages, and address key questions in Bantu morphosyntax.
Author |
: Jelle Cammenga |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056956405 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Phonology and Morphology of Ekegusii by : Jelle Cammenga
Author |
: Koen Bostoen |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 862 |
Release |
: 2023-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961104062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961104069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar by : Koen Bostoen
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.
Author |
: Koen Bostoen |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 862 |
Release |
: 2023-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783985540648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3985540640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar by : Koen Bostoen
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.
Author |
: Yaqian Huang |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 580 |
Release |
: 2024-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961104727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961104727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis ACAL in SoCAL by : Yaqian Huang
This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.
Author |
: Christopher R. Green |
Publisher |
: Language Science Press |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2024-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783961104697 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3961104697 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghanaian linguistics nexus by : Christopher R. Green
There is a long and rich tradition of excellence in Ghanaian linguistics and the detailed study of Ghanaian languages. This tradition has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks in part to a cadre of renowned and highly productive Ghanaian linguists conducting research at universities around the globe, as well as in Ghana itself. So too has the commitment to careful description, documentation, and theorizing underlying this tradition been extended to the students that these scholars have trained. The papers in this volume reflect the vast reach of this research tradition, grounded in but expanding beyond Ghanaian languages, ranging from experimental phonetics, to language description, to political discourse analysis.
Author |
: Clement M. Doke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2017-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351601559 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351601555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bantu by : Clement M. Doke
Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations, individual members of a particular zone may be living among members of a different zone (as has been the case with the Ngoni, South-Eastern Zone, who are found among the Eastern Bantu), but the zone label is taken from the habitat of the majority.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 4863373430 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9784863373433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Descriptive Materials of Morphosyntactic Microvariation in Bantu by :
Author |
: H. Ekkehard Wolff |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2019-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108417976 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108417973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of African Linguistics by : H. Ekkehard Wolff
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.