On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

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

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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

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
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A Comparative Grammar of the South-African Bantu Languages

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
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Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages

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
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Tense and Aspect in Bantu

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

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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

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
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The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa

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

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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.