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Variation in the coding of the noncausal/causal alternation: Causative *-i in East Bantu languages
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 In this paper, we discuss shifts in the formal relation, i.e. “correspondence” (Haspelmath 1993; Nichols et al. 2004), between members of noncausal/causal verb pairs in eight East Bantu languages.
Sebastian Dom +3 more
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The History of Porridge in Bantuphone Africa, with Words as Main Ingredients
Afriques, 2014 The historical comparative-linguistic analysis of Bantu culinary vocabulary reveals that the stiff porridge widely consumed in Central and Southern Africa today as principal starch food was already known to the first Bantu speech communities.
Birgit Ricquier
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The Noun Class System of Bwala, an Undocumented Teke Language from the DRC (Bantu, B70z)
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper presents the noun class system of Bwala, a nearly undocumented and undescribed Bantu language of the Teke group spoken in the Kinshasa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Flore Bollaert +2 more
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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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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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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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