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On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar [PDF]
, 2022 This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family.
Bostoen, Koen +3 more
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Proto-Bantu existential locational construction(s)
, 2022 This chapter proposes a Proto-Bantu reconstruction of existential constructions based on a convenience sample of 180 Bantu languages, which points towards “existential locationals” (ELs) as a suitable base for comparison. ELs include inverse-locational predications as well as expressions of generic existence.
Devos, Maud, Bernander, Rasmus
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, 2022 The focus of this chapter is the appearance of tense in Proto-Bantu (PB). Most Niger-Congo (NC) languages are aspect-prominent, having no tense contrasts, and the same is generally assumed for ancestral Proto-Niger-Congo. PB emerged from part of an eastern subgroup of NC to which we refer as Bantoid.
Derek Nurse, John R. Watters
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An introduction to Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar [PDF]
On Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar, 2022 This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of the African linguistic family commonly known as Bantu. It is about how to retrieve the phonology, the morphology and the syntax the earliest Bantu speakers used to communicate with each other. In §1, I explain how this book came about. In §2, I offer a
Bostoen, Koen, Koen Bostoen
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Proto-Bantu reflexes in Dhaisu
, 2022 This paper is a study of Proto-Bantu reflexes in Dhaisu, a highly endangered lan- guage also known as Dhaiso, Segeju, Daisu and Kidhaisu (dhs, E56). Dhaisu is spo- ken in the East Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania, but its closest rel- ative is Kamba (E55). Seven vowels are reported in this study as has been in other studies /i, ɪ, ɛ, a, ɔ, ʊ,
Ngonyani, Deo +3 more
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Sorting out Proto-Bantu *j [PDF]
, 2022 The most problematic of the consonants that Meeussen reconstructed for Proto-Bantu (PB) phonology is *j, for which Guthrie used both *j and *y. Earlier generations had also sometimes omitted either in favour of vowel-initial roots. Recent progress in establishing a solid family tree of the Bantu languages allows the evidence to be re-evaluated based on
Wills, Jeffrey, Jeffrey Wills
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Agreement on Proto-Bantu relative verb forms
, 2022 This chapter argues that Meeussen’s (1967) reconstruction of a Direct and an Indirect relative clause construction in Proto-Bantu (PB) is untenable, because there exists no scenario of morphosyntactic change that can lead from that reconstructed state of affairs to the relative clause constructions attested in contemporary Bantu. Although typologically
van de Velde, Mark, L.O. +2 more
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Proto-Bantu Relative Verb Forms
, 2021 This chapter argues that Meeussen (1967)’s reconstruction of a Direct and an Indirect relative clause construction in Proto-Bantu is untenable, because there exists no scenario of morphosyntactic change that can lead from that reconstructed state of affairs to the relative clause constructions attested in contemporary Bantu.
van de Velde, Mark
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Double reflexes in north-western Bantu and their implications for the Proto-Bantu consonant system
, 2022 A number of languages in the north-westernmost area of the Bantu domain have been claimed to present two different reflexes of originally unitary Proto-Bantu (PB) phonemes. A solution to this surprising situation has been sought in the presence of some assumed phonological conditioning, whereas other authors have proposed to reconstruct new proto ...
Philippson, Gérard, Gérard Philippson
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, 2018 This paper proposes a typologically informed reconstruction of the Proto Bantu question words provisionally reconstructed in BLR 3 (http://www.africamuseum.be/research/discover/human_sciences/culture_society/blr/) as °n(d)áí ‘who?’ and -í ‘what?’.
Idiatov, Dmitry
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