The Bantu Languages

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1134-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1247 g

Reihe: Routledge Language Family Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nurse, Derek

Philippson, Gérard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

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.