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Prehistoric language contact in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area: Khoisan influence on southwestern Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2015 In this article, we show that the influence of Khoisan languages on five southwestern Bantu click languages spoken in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier area is diverse and complex.
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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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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, 2018 The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon.
Bostoen, Koen
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Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-: A historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster [PDF]
, 2018 In this article, a comparison is made of the expression of possibility in West Nyanza Bantu languages in order to reconstruct the origins of Luganda's two most frequent possibility markers, viz. the near-synonymous auxiliaries -sobol- and -yinz-. Earlier
Bostoen, Koen +2 more
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Parameters of Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu [PDF]
, 2007 Bantu languages are fairly uniform in terms of broad typological parameters. However, they have been noted to display a high degree of more fine-grained morphosyntactic micro-variation.
Alsina +68 more
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Variation in Bantu copula constructions [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter provides an overview of variation in Bantu non-verbal predication and copula constructions. These constructions exhibit a wide range of fine-grained micro-variation against a backdrop of broad typological similarity across the Bantu family ...
Gibson, Hannah +2 more
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The lexicographic treatment of ideophones in Zulu [PDF]
, 2009 The ideophone, a word class not unique to but highly characteristic of the Bantu languages, presents particular challenges in both monolingual and bilingual lexicography.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Motion time and tense on the grammaticalization of come and go to future markers in Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Many Bantu languages have grammaticized one or both types of motion verb -COME and GO - as future markers. However, they may differ in the semantics of future temporal reference, in some cases referring to a "near" future, in others to a "remote" future.
Robert Botne
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Quaternary Environments and HumansIn this article, Jan Vansina’s essay on the deep-time population history of the Kwilu-Kasai region, now more than half a century old, is revisited through the kaleidoscopic lens of newly collected linguistic, archaeological, palaeoecological and genetic ...
Koen Bostoen +5 more
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