Thera Marie Crane, Larry M. Hyman, Tukumu, Simon Nsielanga, S.J.

Broschiertes Buch

A Grammar of Nzadi [B865]

A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo

Beschreibung

Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This title covers the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes.

Autor

Thera Marie Crane is a postdoctoral researcher with the Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification (GRAMIS) project at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, specializing in tense, aspect, and mood expression in Bantu languages. Larry M. Hyman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and specializes in phonology, typology, and African linguistics. Simon T. Nsielanga is a Jesuit Vice-Directeur of Loyola Hope Center in Lome, Togo, and a researcher in pre-colonial and colonial political African history.

Produktdetails

• UC Publications in Linguistics
• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780520098862
• ISBN-10: 0520098862
• Artikelnr.: 34226703