The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu / edited by Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van der Wal, Jenneke, 1981- editor.

Hyman, Larry M., editor.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; Volume 301.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 1861-4302 ; Volume 301

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bantu languages--Verb phrase.

Bantu languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of contents

Contributors

1. Introduction

2. What is the conjoint/disjoint alternation? Parameters of crosslinguistic variation

3. Locating the Bantu conjoint/disjoint alternation in a typology of focus marking

4. Disentangling conjoint, disjoint, metatony, tone cases, augments, prosody, and focus in Bantu

5. Shangaji paired tenses: Emergence of a cj/dj system?

6. The Kikuyu focus marker nĩ: Formal and functional similarities to the conjoint/disjoint alternation

7. Conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Gur? Evidence from Yom

8. The conjoint/disjoint distinction in the tonal morphology of Tswana

9. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Símákonde

10. The conjoint/disjoint alternation and phonological phrasing in Bemba

11. Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu

12. Prosody/syntax mismatches in the Zulu conjoint/disjoint alternation

13. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kinyarwanda

14. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kirundi (JD62): A case for its abolition

15. Conjoint/disjoint distinction and focus in Matengo (N13)

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 27, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110634990

3110634996

9783110488425

3110488426

9783110488388

3110488388

OCLC:

979585361