A Glossary of Terms for Bantu Verbal Categories
Author | : Sarah R. Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah R. Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. G. Kiango |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Clement Martyn Doke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
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Author | : Malcolm Guthrie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1351601431 |
The first volume of this pair, The Classification of Bantu Languages, originally published in 1948, investigates the questions arising out of the use of the term Bantu. It establishes and illustrates the criteria used in identifying languages as members of the Bantu family. The technique used in classification is described and its results shown in the form of a series of descriptive classifications of each of the principal areas. As well as the map (not included in the volume due to modern methods of reproduction, but available to view on routledge.com), there is a complete list of languages classified in their groups. The second volume, Bantu Word Division published in the same year, discusses a question which for many years was the subject of protracted controversy, namely the dispute between the conjunctivist and the disjunctivist, with regard to word division. This pamphlet discusses word division from a different angle, and solves the problem in a more conclusive way.
Author | : Derek Nurse |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191553603 |
Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described. Professor Nurse's account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website. He devotes substantial chapters to the analysis and comparison of the different tense and aspect systems found in Bantu. He also examines the verbal categories with which they interact, including negation and focus. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are interwoven throughout the book. Following a brief history of Bantu over the last five thousand years, the final two chapters look systematically at the history of tense and aspect in Bantu. The first deals with the reconstruction of the earlier forms from which contemporary structures, morphemes, and categories are derived, and the second with the processes of change, including grammaticalization, by means of which older analytical structures and independent lexical items moved as they became incorporated as grammatical inflections and categories.
Author | : Alice Werner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark L.O. Van de Velde |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110207850 |
A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.
Author | : Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3961102945 |
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.
Author | : Robert I. Binnick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1128 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0195381971 |
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Author | : Clement M. Doke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2017-09-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1351601555 |
Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations, individual members of a particular zone may be living among members of a different zone (as has been the case with the Ngoni, South-Eastern Zone, who are found among the Eastern Bantu), but the zone label is taken from the habitat of the majority.