Bantu Historical Linguistics Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Bantu Historical Linguistics Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

EnglishPaperback / softback
Hombert, Jean-Marie
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
EAN: 9781575862040
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This collection brings together most of the world's leading Bantuists, as well as some of the most promising younger scholars interested in the history, comparison, and description of Bantu languages. The Bantu languages, numbering as many as 500, have been at the center of cutting-edge theoretical research in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Besides the issues of classification and internal sub-grouping, this volume treats historical and comparative aspects of many of the significant typological features for which this language group is known: vowel height harmony, noun classes, elaborate tense-aspect systems, etc. The result is a compilation that provides the most up-to-date understanding of these and other issues that will be of interest not only to Bantuists and historical linguists, but also to those interested in the phonological, morphological and semantic issues arising within these highly agglutinative Bantu languages.
EAN 9781575862040
ISBN 1575862042
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Publication date September 13, 1999
Pages 606
Language English
Dimensions 228 x 152 x 33
Country United States
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Hombert, Jean-Marie; Hyman, Larry
Illustrations 15 b/w illus. 18 maps 16 tables
Editors Hombert Jean-Marie; Hyman Larry M.
Series Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes