Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu

Herausgeber: Bloom-Strom, Eva-Marie; Marten, Lutz; Guérois, Rozenn; Gibson, Hannah

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu languages as well as drawing on a wider comparative set of more than 200 languages, and address key questions in Bantu morphosyntax.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198821359
• ISBN-10: 0198821352
• Artikelnr.: 69725457

Autorenporträt

Eva-Marie Bloom Ström is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include information structure in languages with flexible sentence structure, such as the Bantu languages, as well as language description and documentation. She works primarily on languages of Tanzania and South Africa. Hannah Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex. Her research examines linguistic variation with a focus on the morphosyntax of Bantu languages of Eastern and Southern Africa. She works also on language contact, language change, and multilingualism. Rozenn Guérois is a Researcher at the LLACAN-CNRS and a Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include the description of Bantu languages spoken in Mozambique, morphosyntactic variation, typology, and comparative and historical linguistics. Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at SOAS University of London. He is interested in linguistic theory, comparative and historical linguistics, and questions of language and identity. Most of his work focuses on African languages and he has carried out research in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Lutz Marten, Rozenn Guérois, Hannah Gibson, and Eva-Marie Bloom
Ström: Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: An introduction
* Part I. Morphosyntactic variation across Bantu
* 2: Peter Edelsten, Rozenn Guérois, and Lutz Marten: Comparative
analysis of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu languages: Parameters,
data representation, and database design
* 3: Nobuko Yoneda: Micro-variation of noun-modifying constructions in
Bantu languages
* 4: Justine Sikuku: Reflexive and reciprocal marking in Bantu
* 5: Rozenn Guérois, Hannah Gibson, and Lutz Marten: A parametric
approach to negation in Bantu languages
* 6: Rasmus Bernander, Maud Devos, and Hannah Gibson: Existential
constructions in Bantu languages
* 7: Denis Creissels: Predicative possession in Bantu languages
* Part II. Areal and micro-level morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
* 8: Eva-Marie Bloom Ström and Matti Miestamo: The use of the augment
in Nguni languages: A marker of referentiality?
* 9: Atikonda Mtenje-Mkochi: Micro-variation in the nominal class
marking systems of Malawian languages
* 10: Dorothee Beermann and Allen Asiimwe: Locatives in
Runyankore-Rukiga
* 11: Amani Lusekelo: Morphosyntactic properties of object marking in
Nyakyusa
* 12: Sebastian Dom, Heidi Goes, and Koen Bostoen: Multiple-reciprocity
marking in the Kikongo language cluster: Functional distribution and
origins
* 13: Koen Bostoen: Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy in South-Western
Bantu: Distribution, typology, and origins
* 14: Yuko Abe: Morphosyntactic and semantic variation of the
persistive aspect in Lake Tanganyika Bantu: A focus on Bende
* 15: Daisuke Shinagawa: A micro-parametric approach to focus marking
ni in Kilimanjaro Bantu languages: With special reference to
Rombo-Mkuu and Uru