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The influence of non-linguistic factors on the usage of the pre-prefix in Luguru
Linguistic Discovery, 2017 This article discusses the impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the use of the pre-prefix in an under-described Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
Malin Petzell, Karoline Kühl
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“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid forms of ...
Christine Saidi
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Pushing Back the Origin of Bantu Lexicography: The Vocabularium Congense of 1652, 1928, 2012
Lexikos, 2012 In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium Latinum, Hispanicum, e Congense, handed down to us through a manuscript from 1652 by the Flemish Capuchin Joris van Gheel, missionary in the Kongo (present ...
Jasper De Kind +2 more
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Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 1: Organic Corpus Building for Lusoga
Lexikos, 2018 This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two instalments will deal with the ...
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 Discourse function has often been noticed to be a strong factor in conditioning Bantu word order. The importance of discourse function for determining the word order of Bantu languages is visible for example in locative inversion and dedicated focus ...
Elisabeth J. Kerr +5 more
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Lexikos, 2015 In this article a little-known dictionary manuscript from the 1930s, the Lexique kikongo-français by the Jesuit missionary Charles Polis, is analysed in great detail. Section 1 expounds on the goal and raison d'être of the study, Section 2 introduces the
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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Aspectuality in Bantu: on the limits of Vendler's categories
Linguistic Discovery, 2018 In current-day aspectology, there is a strong tendency towards bi-dimensional approaches in which aspectual meaning is understood as arising through the selection of abstract lexically specified temporal phases through morphosyntactic aspectual operators.
Bastian Persohn
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ON THE SEMANTICS OF NUMERAL REDUPLICATION IN HAYA: BETWEEN DISTRIBUTIVITY AND PLURACTIONALITY [PDF]
Studii de gramatică contrastivăThis paper provides a first description and analysis of numeral reduplication in Haya, a Bantu language. In literature, numeral reduplication is generally analyzed as a marker of either distributivity or event plurality (pluractionality) in the languages
Amazigh Bedar, Alfred Mulinda
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Migration and interaction in a contact zone: mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in Southern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Bantu speech communities expanded over large parts of sub-Saharan Africa within the last 4000-5000 years, reaching different parts of southern Africa 1200-2000 years ago.
Chiara Barbieri +6 more
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