A Grammar of Yeyi
Author : Frank Seidel
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bantu languages
ISBN :
A grammar of Fwe
Author : Hilde Gunnink
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3961103887
Book Description
This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe. Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some 20,000 people. Very little previous documentation exists on the language, and the current description of Fwe is based exclusively on newly collected field data. It includes an analysis of the grammatical structure of Fwe, followed by basic cultural information on greetings, a Fwe narrative with its English translation, and a lexicon comprising some 2200 Fwe lexemes with their English translation. This book is intended as a resource for linguists, whether interested in African languages, Bantu languages, language typology, or general linguistics.
On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
Author : Koen Bostoen
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961104069
Book Description
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. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.
Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa
Author : James Essegbey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268150
Book Description
This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that range from the development of a writing system to ideologies of language endangerment, from working with displaced communities to the role of colonial languages in reshaping African repertoires, and from the insights of archeology to the challenges of language documentation as a doctoral project. The authors are concerned with both theoretical and practical aspects of language documentation as they address the ways in which the African context both differs from and resembles contexts of endangerment elsewhere in the world. This volume will be useful to fieldworkers and documentalists who work in Africa and beyond.
The Bantu Languages
Author : Mark Van de Velde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317628683
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their history and classification. It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition. The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison. Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights. New to this edition: • new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact • 12 new sketch grammars • thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification • exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.
The Bantu Languages
Author : Derek Nurse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1135796831
Book Description
Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
The Verb in Nyakyusa
Author : Bastian Persohn
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release :
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3961102945
Book Description
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages
Author : María J. Arche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192565427
Book Description
This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a range of key topics including the existence of more than one copular form in certain languages, the factors determining the presence or absence of a copula, and the morphology of copular forms. The team of expert contributors present new theoretical proposals regarding the formal mechanisms behind the behaviour and patterns observed in copulas in a wide range of typologically diverse languages, including Czech, French, Korean, and languages from the Dene and Bantu families. Their findings have implications beyond the study of copulas and shed more light on issues such as agreement relations, the nature of grammatical categories, and nominal predicates in syntax and semantics.
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Author : Salikoko Mufwene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1009115774
Book Description
Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.
An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
Author : Ranko Matasović
Publisher :
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108420974
Book Description
The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.
