The Bantu Languages

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-41265-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Routledge Language Family Series

Providing descriptive and typological information about the Bantu languages of southern Africa, this volume brings together a set of expert contributors and is divided into two parts: linguistics areas, including phonology, morphology, syntax and historical linguistics, and secondly, the many hundreds of Bantu languages themselves.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nurse, Derek

Philippson, Gérard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part A

2. Sounds of Bantu

3. Phonology

4. Tonology

5. Derivational Morphology

6. Tense and Aspect

7. Noun Classes

8. Syntax

9. Historical Linguistics

10. Towards a Historical Classification of the Bantu Languages

11. Grammaticalization

12. Contact Languages

13. Acquistition

Part B

14. Grassfields Bantu

15. Basaa (A43)

16. Nen (A44)

17. Kpa (A53)

18. Makaa (A83)

19. The Bantu Languages of the Forest

20. The B30 Language Group

21. Babole (C101)

22. Lega (D25)

23. Bila (D32)

24. Kilimanjaro Bantu (E60 and E74)

25. The Interlacustrine Zone (Zone J)

26. Rufiji-Ruvuma (N10, P10-20)

27. Makhuwa (P30)

28. Western Savanna (K, R)

29. Herero (R31)

30. Zone S

31. A Classification of the Bantu Languages

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.