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Negative Indefinite Constructions in Bantu: ‘Nobody’
LanguagesThis paper presents a first typology of negative indefinites in Bantu languages. The lack of interest in expressions of ‘nobody’ in Bantu languages is connected with the idea that they merely involve a generic noun for ‘person’ and main clause negation ...
Maud Devos +2 more
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Electronic Dictionaries viewed from South Africa
Hermes, 2005 The aim of this article is to evaluate currently available electronic dictionaries from a South African perspective for the eleven official languages of South Africa namely English, Afrikaans and the nine Bantu languages Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Ndebele ...
Danie J. Prinsloo
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Questions in Bantu languages : prosodies and positions
, 2011 The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Workshop on Bantu Wh-questions, held at the Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Université Lyon 2, on 25-26 March 2011, which was organized by the French-German cooperative project on the Phonology/
Downing, Laura J.
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Relationships among six north-eastern Bantu languages. [PDF]
, 1975 Six north-eastern Bantu languages spoken in Kenya are the subject of this thesis. They are Dawida, Saghala, Giryama, Kikuyu, Mvita and Unguja, Saghala, Giryama and Mvita lack substantial primary documentation, Dawida lacks any, and Kikuyu and Unguja are ...
Slavikova, Magdalena
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Introduction to the Special Issue
Nordic Journal of African StudiesBantu languages are notoriously “verby” (Nurse 2008, 21), referring to the highly agglutinative nature of the inflected verb, whose complexities have sparked extensive research.
Ponsiano Kanijo +4 more
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 Morphological parsers are typically developed for languages without contrastive tonal systems. Ha, a typical Bantu language of Western Tanzania, proposes a challenge to these parses with both lexical and grammatical pitch-accent that would, in order to ...
Lotta Harjula
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Grammaticalization of tense and aspect in Mbugwe: a preliminary investigation
Language Documentation and Description, 2011 Mbugwe is a relatively small Bantu language spoken in Northern Tanzania, between the cities of Arusha and Babati. The formal classification is Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, F, Nyilamba ...
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Considerazioni per uno studio delle lingue bantu
Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2014 This work is broadly divided into two parts. The first one discusses the typical features which characterize Bantu languages, in particular analysing the criteria which have been individuated in order to classify a given language as Bantu.
Gloria Cocchi
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The V and CV augment and exhaustivity in Kinyakyusa
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 In addition to the stem and noun class prefix, the structure of nouns in Bantu languages may contain an augment. This augment typically is a vowel, but some languages show a CV augment.
Jenneke van der Wal, Amani Lusekelo
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002 Bantu Languages, 7, 33, 34 ...
Renaud Beeckmans
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