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Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 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
Koen Bostoen, Heidi Goes
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The diachronic semantics of the Dissociative Past Completive construction in the Kikongo Language Cluster (Bantu) [PDF]

Folia Linguistica, 2018
This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about 40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around the mouth of the Congo River in ...
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver, Koen Bostoen, Sebastian Dom   +2 more
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Prénoms portugais en kiKongo

Revue Internationale D Onomastique, 1962
Bal Willy. Prénoms portugais en kiKongo. In: Revue Internationale d'Onomastique, 14e année N°3, Septembre 1962. pp.
Bal, Willy
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Introducing a state-of-the-art phylogenetic classification of the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]

Africana Linguistica, 2015
It is shown how past lexicostatistic efforts eventually led to lexically‑driven phylogenetic classifications of the Bantu languages. As a new case study, 95 North‑West and West Bantu language varieties are sampled across geographical space, with a focus ...
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver
exaly   +2 more sources

Examining variation in the expression of tense/aspect to classify the Kikongo Language Cluster [PDF]

Africana Linguistica, 2015
In this article we examine variation in the expression of tense and aspect (TA) in 23 modern and two historical Bantu language varieties belonging to Guthrie’s B40, H10 and H30 groups in order to shed light on the internal classification of the Kikongo ...
Sebastian Dom
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How ‘person’ got into focus: Grammaticalization of clefts in Lingala and Kikongo areas

Linguistics, 2015
Jenneke van der Wal
exaly  

Event-centrality and the pragmatics–semantics interface in Kikongo: From predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa

Folia Linguistica, 2015
Gilles-Maurice De Schryver, Koen Bostoen, Sebastian Dom   +2 more
exaly  

VVNC in Kamituumbi and Kikongo

South African Journal of African Languages, 1990
David Odden
exaly  

Time Reference in Kikongo-Kituba

Creole Language Library, 1990
Salikoko S. Mufwene
exaly  

A preliminary exploration of verbal affix ordering in Kikongo, a Bantu language of Angola

Language Matters, 2008
exaly