A Glossary of Terms for Bantu Verbal Categories
Author | : Sarah R. Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah R. Rose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. G. Kiango |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Clement Martyn Doke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Folke Josephson |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2008-08-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027290350 |
The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.
Author | : Bastian Persohn |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3961102945 |
Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
Author | : Derek Nurse |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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.
Author | : Robert I. Binnick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1128 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0195381971 |
This Handbook is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to the topics and theories that current form the front line of research into tense, aspect, and related areas.
Author | : Mark L.O. Van de Velde |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110207850 |
A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.
Author | : Doris L. Payne |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027267871 |
Certain grammatical elements help hearers know how propositions are conceptually related: Does a given proposition advance the foregrounded event line, or not? Initiate versus continue an event chain? Indicate that one proposition belongs to a different "mental space" from the previous one? Provide background information? Studies in this volume show that African languages sometimes support, but often refute the idea that perfective aspect or past tense marks the narrative event line. Rather, languages may employ clause level constructions, conjunctions or connectives, tonal melodies on verbs or subjects, specialized auxiliaries, special verb forms and even dependent clause and imperfective aspect forms. Often, correlation of such grammatical elements with the event line is a subcase of a more general function. Analyses in this volume contribute to developing a typology of the expression of discourse functions, a field of research which has so far been minimally addressed from a typological perspective.
Author | : Alice Werner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Bantu languages |
ISBN | : |