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Reflexive-Reciprocal Syncretism in Eastern Bantu Languages of Tanzania: Distribution and Origins
LanguagesThis paper presents an overview of the distribution of reflexive-reciprocal syncretism in Eastern Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania. Most Bantu languages encode reflexive and reciprocal constructions by means of two distinct verbal affixes. However, the
Aron Zahran, Sebastian Dom
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, 2019 Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their ...
Van de Velde, Mark +3 more
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Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2022 In this article we offer an overview of the use of modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu (encompassing languages spoken from eastern Congo in the north-west to northern Mozambique in the south-east; viz.
Devos, Maud +2 more
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Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax
Linguistics, 2022 In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
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Wetenskaplike woordidentifikasie en -klassifikasie in Bantoetale met besondere verwysing na Zoeloe
Literator, 2001 Scientific word identification and classification in Bantu languages with special reference to Zulu Despite the fact that Van Wyk’s word theory (1958) is the only scientifically justified word theory for Bantu languages, his work has not had the ...
L. Posthumus
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Valuing All Languages in Europe [PDF]
, 2007 The VALEUR project (2004-2007) took as its focus the 'additional' languages of Europe. These are defined as all languages in use in contexts where they are not 'national', 'official', or 'dominant' languages.
McPake, Joanna +7 more
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Contact influence in the Tjhauba variety of Kgalagadi
Afrika und Übersee, 2023 Tjhauba, spoken in northwestern Botswana, is a regional variety of the Bantu language Kgalagadi. Tjhauba exhibits a number of striking linguistic differences with respect to other, previously described Kgalagadi varieties, some the result of language ...
Hilde Gunnink
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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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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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