On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
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 p...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1005562026-06-12T09:20:52Z On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar Bostoen, Koen de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice Guérois, Rozenn Pacchiarotti, Sara Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. 2023-06-08T04:04:26Z 2023-06-08T04:04:26Z 2023-06-07T05:34:32Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63273 9783985540648 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/100556 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63273/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63273/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63273/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63273/1/external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.7560553 10.5281/zenodo.7560553 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched 9783985540648 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press 2021-2023 Language Science Press open access |
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