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Underlying low tones in Ruwund
Studies in African Linguistics, 1994 In this paper the author examines data from Ruwund, a language with surface tone patterns often the reverse of those reconstructed for ProtoBantu, and proposes that, whereas most contemporary Bantu languages are believed to have tonal systems based on an
Jay A. Nash
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Revisiting Basaa verbal derivation
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 Basaa, a Narrow Bantu language (A43) spoken in Cameroon in Central Africa holds a serious record of descriptive works in phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Makasso, Emmanuel-Moselly
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On the origin of tonal classes in Kinande noun stems
Studies in African Linguistics, 2008 This paper investigates the Proto-Bantu origins of the principal tonal classes in Kinande nonderived mono- and disyllabic nominal stems. The temary H vs. L vs. 0 distinction in the final syllable of the current language is traced back to a binary H vs. L
Michael Kenstowicz
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Hypothese du morpheme verbal discontinu -id-e
Studies in African Linguistics, 1987 ide tel que reconstitue en Le morpheme polyphonique proto-bantu comme marque verbale du passe de l'indicatif apparait dans beaucoup de langues bantu actuelles sous une forme dont Ie comportement auto rise la segmentation en deux elements discontinus -id ...
Nkiko Munya Rugero, Kabange Mukala
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Verbal pluralization strategies in Plateau
Afrika und Übersee, 2020 Pluractional verbs are found in many Plateau (and adjacent Chadic) languages. The present study looks into the distribution of a stock of common markers of pluractionality.
Ludwig Gerhardt
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well ...
Sifra Van Acker +3 more
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Reconstructable main clause functions of Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *-ɪd
, 2022 This chapter presents evidence in favour of reconstructing at least three main clause-level functions of the Proto-Bantu (PB) applicative *-ɪd: (i) the introduction of a semantic role which cannot be expressed otherwise with an underived verb root; (ii ...
de Schryver, Gilles-MauriceeditorLW21LW220019891140298010014649590000-0001-7272-9878F6071184-F0ED-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4 +4 more
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Inheritance and Contact in the Development of Lateral Obstruents in Nguni Languages (S40)
LanguagesThis study investigates the development of the lateral fricatives and affricates, to which we jointly refer as ‘lateral obstruents’, in Nguni (S40) languages of Southern Africa.
Nina van der Vlugt, Hilde Gunnink
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The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic
Studies in African Linguistics, 2005 As the largest language phylum in the world and the most geographically widespread (Williamson & Blench 2000), Niger-Congo understandably exhibits some variation at all grammatical levels.
G. Tucker Childs
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2023 The emergence of new languages out of languages in contact is a phenomenon that can be observed with a naked eye on the African terrain (see Abidjan French, Sango, Swahili for example).
Cyril Aslanov +2 more
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