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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 ...
Bastian Persohn, Thera Marie Crane
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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
First Language, 2012 Katherine J. Alcock, Charles R. Newton
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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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Contextualizing Universal Theory of Acronym Formation in Kiswahili acronyms
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2021 In controlling and managing knowledge there is need of a tool that ensures such management. Theories, principles and rules are the right tools for knowledge management (cf. Mkude 2008: 158).
Saul S. Bichwa
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Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 Ɛnyá (ISO: gey, Guthrie: D14), Mokpá (no ISO, Guthrie: D142) and Metóko (ISO: zmq, Guthrie: D13) are rare examples of East-Bantu languages containing labial-velars. The three languages form a branch of the Lega subgroup.
David Kopa wa Kopa, Birgit Ricquier
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Variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 In this paper, we discuss shifts in the formal relation, i.e. “correspondence” (Haspelmath 1993; Nichols et al. 2004), between members of noncausal/causal verb pairs in eight East Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom +3 more
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La reconstruction de quelques mots pour mortier en domaine Bantou
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 This article proposes reconstructions of words for "mortar" in Bantu languages. Comparative research indicates that a nominal stem of the type *-du - -nu can be reconstructed on a Proto-Bantu level; however, data from related non-narrow Bantu languages ...
Annelies Bulkens
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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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Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 Bantu languages in eastern and southern Africa possess nominal suffixes which serve to express locative relations or derive nominal stems. As these grammemes are final to their noun hosts, they are markedly distinct from canonic prefix morphology in ...
Tom Güldemann
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