The Vute Noun Phrase and the Relationship Between Vute and Bantu
Author: Rhonda Ann Thwing
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 112
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Author: Rhonda Ann Thwing
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Koen Bostoen
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 862
ISBN-13: 3961104069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 3110467674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world’s languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.
Author: Tom Güldemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-09-10
Total Pages: 1032
ISBN-13: 3110421666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
Author: John R. Watters
Publisher: Language Science Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 3961101000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.
Author: Ngessimo M. Mutaka
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 384
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 504
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 612
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Bendor-Samuel
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 538
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