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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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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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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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Genome-wide SNP analysis of Southern African populations provides new insights into the dispersal of Bantu-speaking groups [PDF]
, 2015 The expansion of Bantu-speaking agropastoralist populations had a great impact on the genetic, linguistic, and cultural variation of sub-Saharan Africa. It is generally accepted that Bantu languages originated in an area around the present border between
ANAGNOSTOU, PAOLO +8 more
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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]
, 2019 The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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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 Marie Crane, Bastian Persohn
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, 2017 Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2015 Mauritian Creole displays an alternation between a short and a long form of the verb, which is reminiscent of the conjoint–disjoint alternation found in some eastern Bantu languages.
van der Wal, Jenneke, Veenstra, Tonjes
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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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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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