The Bantu Languages
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-40166-9 (ISBN)
It is estimated that some 300 to 350 million people, or one in three Africans, are Bantu speakers. Van de Velde and Bostoen bring together their linguistic expertise to produce a volume that builds on Nurse and Philippson’s first edition.
The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition is divided into two parts; Part 1 contains 11 comparative chapters, and Part 2 provides grammar sketches of 12 individual Bantu languages, some of which were previously undescribed. The grammar sketches follow a general template that allows for easy comparison.
Thoroughly revised and updated to include more language descriptions and the latest comparative insights.
New to this edition:
• new chapters on syntax, tone, reconstruction and language contact
• 12 new sketch grammars
• thoroughly updated chapters on phonetics, aspect-tense-mood and classification
• exhaustive catalogue of known languages with essential references
This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Bantu linguistics and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology and grammatical analysis.
Mark Van de Velde is a researcher at LLACAN (CNRS-INaLCO) in Paris, of which he has been the director since 2015. He works on the grammatical analysis and documentation of the north-western Bantu languages and the languages of the Benue valley in Nigeria, especially those currently classified as Adamawa. He is also interested in linguistic typology and in the comparative study and reconstruction of Bantu grammar, particularly in the domain of the noun phrase. Koen Bostoen is Professor of African Linguistics and Swahili at Ghent University and member of the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies. His research focuses on Bantu languages and interdisciplinary approaches to the African past. He obtained an ERC Starting Grant for the KongoKing Project (2012–2016) and an ERC Consolidator’s Grant for the BantuFirst project (2018–2022). Apart from several research articles, he is the author of Des mots et des pots en bantou: une approche linguistique de l’histoire de la céramique en Afrique (2005) and co-editor of Studies in African Comparative Linguistics, with Special Focus on Bantu and Mande (2005), The Kongo Kingdom: Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity (2018) and Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo (2018). Derek Nurse edited the first edition of The Bantu Languages and has worked on historical linguistics, language contact, phonological change, Bantu and (East) African languages, Swahili, ethnolinguistics, the interface of linguistics, archaeology, and history tense/aspect systems in Bantu. Gérard Philippson edited the first edition of The Bantu Languages and is emeritus Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Paris) and member of the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon). He has worked mostly on East African Bantu Languages, Bantu comparative tonology and diachronic phonology, as well as culture history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Koen Bostoen & Mark Van de Velde
PART 1
2. An inventoryof Bantu languages
Harald Hammarström
3. The sounds of the Bantu languages
Ian Maddieson & Bonny Sands
4. Segmental phonology
Larry Hyman
5. Tone
David Odden & Michael Marlo
6. Word formation
Thilo Schadeberg & Koen Bostoen
7. Aspect, Tense and Mood
Derek Nurse & Maud Devos
8. Nominal Morphology and Syntax
Mark Van de Velde
9. Clausal morphosyntax and information structure
Laura Downing & Lutz Marten
10. Reconstructing Proto Bant
Koen Bostoen
11. Classifying Bantu languages
Gérard Philippson & Rebecca Grollemund
12. Language contact
Maarten Mous
PART 2
13. Kwakum A91
Elisabeth Njantcho & Mark Van de Velde
14. Nsong B85d
Joseph Koni Muluwa & Koen Bostoen
15. Pagibete C401
JeDene Reeder
16. Zimba D26
Constance Kutsch Lojenga
17. The Mara languages JE40
Lotta Aunio, Holly Robinson, Tim Roth, Oliver Stegen & John B. Walker
18. Mbugwe F34
Vera Wilhelmsen
19. Kami G36
Malin Petzell & Lotta Aunio
20. Shingazidja G44a
Cédric Patin, Kassim Mohamed-Soyir & Charles W. Kisseberth
21. Vwanji G66
Helen Eaton
22. Totela K41
Thera Crane
23. Chimpotot N14
Robert Botne
24. Cuwabo P34
Rozenn Guérois
Langage Index
Subject Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Language Family Series |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 1160 g |
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ISBN-10 | 1-032-40166-4 / 1032401664 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-40166-9 / 9781032401669 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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