Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages : Descriptive and comparative approaches / Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, Hannah, editor.

Guérois, Rozenn, editor.

Series:

Contemporary African Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Language Science Press, 2024.

Summary:

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives.

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783961104338

3961104336