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Implementation of a Part-of-Speech Ontology

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015
In a previous article (Faaß et al., 2012), a first attempt was made at documenting and encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages, i.e.
Elsabé Taljard, Gertrud Faaß, Sonja Bosch   +2 more
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Habituals in four Bantu languages

, 2020
The paper surveys the expression of habitual meaning and the origins of habitual markers in four Bantu languages: Eton (A.71), Swahili (G.42), Fwe (K.402), and Nyanja/Chewa (N.31). The division of labour between the habitual marker and other tense and aspect markers differs between the languages, but the coexpression of habitual and generic meaning is ...
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Vowel Height Assimilation in Bantu Languages

, 1991
George N. Clements
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Language contact between Khoisan and Bantu languages: The case of Setswana

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2020
In southern Africa, contact with the typologically and genealogically diverse Khoisan languages has resulted in various changes in Bantu languages. The most salient and well-studied change is the acquisition of clicks, cross-linguistically uncommon phonemes that are a strong indicator of Khoisan influence.
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Expanding Swahili Lexicon by Means of Bantu Languages [PDF]

, 1988
Anita Macwilliam
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Subject and object pronominal agreement in the southern Bantu languages: From a dynamic syntax perspective. [PDF]

, 2008
Anna McCormack
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The Impact of Language on Educational Access in South Africa [PDF]

, 2009
The role of Medium of Instruction (MoI) or Language of Learning and Teaching (LoL&T) has not received sufficient attention as a factor denying meaningful access to education in South Africa. Yet the majority of under-performing learners are also children
Lafon, Michel
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Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu

Studies in African Linguistics
This special issue addresses how evidentiality and mirativity are expressed in various Bantu languages. Both the notions of evidentiality and mirativity remain underexamined for the Bantu languages – the following quote is quite typical: “It appears ...
Hannah Gibson, Jenneke van der Waal
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What tone teaches us about language [PDF]

, 2018
In ‘Tone: Is it different?’ (Hyman 2011a), I suggested that ‘tone is like segmental phonology in every way—only more so’, emphasizing that there are some things that only tone can do.
Hyman, LM
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Argument structure and agency in Bemba passives [PDF]

, 2010
Bemba employs two passive constructions: an older one with verbal extension -w- and a more recent construction involving the class 2 subject marker ba-. We argue that ba- is ambiguous between an ordinary, referential class 2 marker, and an underspecified
Kula, Nancy, Marten, Lutz
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