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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]
, 2016 Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
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What’s in a Bantu verb? Actionality in Bantu languages [PDF]
Linguistic Typology, 2019 AbstractThe lexical and phrasal dimensions of aspect and their interactions with morphosyntactic aspectual operators have proved difficult to model in Bantu languages. Bantu actional types do not map neatly onto commonly accepted categorizations of actionality, although these are frequently assumed to be universal and based on real-world event ...
Thera Crane, Bastian Persohn
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Flore Bollaert +2 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well ...
Sifra Van Acker +3 more
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Constituency, Imbrication, and the Interpretation of Change-of-State Verbs in isiNdebele
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 This paper describes the interplay of lexical and grammatical aspect with other grammatical phenomena in the interpretation of the aspectual suffix ‑ile (which we analyse as Perfective) in isiNdebele, a Nguni Bantu language spoken in South Africa ...
Thera Crane, Axel Fanego
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga
Linguistics, 2023 Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs
Asiimwe Allen +2 more
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Pre-nominal DP modifiers and penultimate lengthening in Xitsonga
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 Bantu languages generally have noun-initial DP word order but they typically allow for demonstratives, and in some languages also the quantifier meaning ‘each, every’, to precede the noun.
Lee, Seunghun J., Riedel, Kristina
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On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
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Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023 Verum focus has long been analysed as part of information structure, being accounted for within a theory of focus as generation of alternatives on a polarity value.
Kerr Elisabeth J., Van der Wal Jenneke
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
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