On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
Title | On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Koen Bostoen |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 862 |
Release | 2023-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961104069 |
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.
A Comparative Grammar of the South-African Bantu Languages
Title | A Comparative Grammar of the South-African Bantu Languages PDF eBook |
Author | J. Torrend |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Bantu languages |
ISBN |
A Comparative Grammar of the South-African Bantu Languages
Title | A Comparative Grammar of the South-African Bantu Languages PDF eBook |
Author | J. Torrend |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Bantu languages |
ISBN |
Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages
Title | Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Werner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Bantu languages |
ISBN |
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Title | Tense and Aspect in Bantu PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Nurse |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2008-07-03 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0199239290 |
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.
List of Grammars, Dictionaries, Etc
Title | List of Grammars, Dictionaries, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Reference Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa
Title | The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Guthrie |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2017-09-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1351600087 |
The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.