Derek Nurse

Tense and Aspect in Bantu

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Produktbeschreibung

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. His 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780199239290
• ISBN-10: 0199239290
• Artikelnr.: 24764253

Autorenporträt

Derek Nurse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His books include, with T. J. Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History (University of California Press 1993) and, with Bernd Heine, African Languages (CUP 2000). Future work will extend the current book to the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Verb Structure and Categories in Bantu
3: Tense
4: Aspect
5: Other Categories
6: What Can be Assumed for Proto-Bantu?
7: Processes of Change
Appendices
Acknowledgements