Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit...

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description The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1637462026-06-12T05:32:04Z Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages Gibson, Hannah Guérois, Rozenn Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. 2025-08-05T05:01:50Z 2025-08-05T05:01:50Z 2025-08-04T14:24:05Z 2024 book ONIX_20250804T161608_9783961104338_5 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104961 9783961104338 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163746 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104961/1/9783961104338.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104961/1/9783961104338.pdf Language Science Press ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961104338 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press 2021-2023 [...] open access
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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title_full Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title_fullStr Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title_full_unstemmed Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title_short Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
title_sort morphosyntactic variation in east african bantu languages
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