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Auxiliary Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages

Nordic Journal of African Studies
Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu exhibit a feature in which two or more auxiliaries appear alongside a single lexical verb. We term this construction ‘auxiliary stacking’. The goal of the paper is to outline the phenomenon of auxiliary stacking
Thera Marie Crane, Hannah Gibson, Kristina Riedel   +2 more
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Environmental conditions do not predict diversification rates in the Bantu languages. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2019
Beyer R, Singarayer JS, Stock JT, Manica A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Community languages in higher education : towards realising the potential [PDF]

, 2008
This study, Community Languages in Higher Education: Towards Realising the Potential, forms part of the Routes into Languages initiative funded by the Higher Education Funding Council in England (HEFCE) and the Department for Children, Schools and ...
McPake, Joanna, Sachdev, Itesh, , Routes into Languages (HEFCE and DCSF) (Funder), Routes into Languages (HEFCE and DCSF) (Funder)   +3 more
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Information Structure in Bantu Languages

, 2015
or some 40 years, the role that information structure (IS) plays in the grammatical structure of the ca. 500 Bantu languages has been the topic of considerable research.
Downing, Laura J.,, Hyman, Larry M.
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Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2018
Greenhill SJ, Hua X, Welsh CF, Schneemann H, Bromham L.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Morphology of Plant Names in the Mpiemo Language

, 2010
The paper focuses on the morphological structure of plant names in the Bantu language Mpiemo, classified as A86c by Guthrie. The plant names represent simple and complex names, both of which, in Bantu languages typically include a prefix.
Thornell, Christina,
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Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2013
Currie TE, Meade A, Guillon M, Mace R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Left dislocation in Zulu [PDF]

, 2004
This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element ...
Zeller, Jochen
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Emphatic Interpretations of Object Marking in Bantu Languages

Studies in African Linguistics
This paper investigates emphatic interpretations of object marking in various Bantu languages. We focus on Lubukusu (spoken in Kenya) and Cinyungwe (spoken in Mozambique) in particular, but we also report initial evidence from other Bantu ...
Hannah Lippard, Justine Sikuku, Crisófia Langa da Câmara, Madelyn Colantes, Kang (Franco) Liu, Michael Diercks   +5 more
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Genetic perspectives on the origin of clicks in Bantu languages from southwestern Zambia. [PDF]

Eur J Hum Genet, 2013
Barbieri C, Butthof A, Bostoen K, Pakendorf B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source