The Bantu Noun Phrase

Issues and Perspectives

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-18364-0 (ISBN)

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This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. This volume speaks to contemporary debates on the Bantu noun phrase, seeking to stimulate a greater understanding of the true nature of adnominal modification, definiteness, and anaphoric relations associated with it, with respect to various segmental and supra-segmental, noun formation, and noun classification phenomena. The ten chapters take the reader through the Grassfields, North-Western, North-Eastern and Southern present-day Bantu homeland, making important contributions to the documentation and analysis of Bantu languages.

The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives is unique in its inclusion of so many North-Eastern Bantu languages in its discourse on Bantu linguistics and this important collection will be of particular interest to those researching, teaching, and studying African languages and linguistics.

Blasius Achiri-Taboh is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Buea, Cameroon.

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing the Bantu noun phrase

BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

PART 1

Phrase structure

2 On the size and category of Bantu nominal expressions

VICKI CARSTENS

3 Adjectives in the Ngamambo noun phrase: Issues of pre- and post-modification

BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

4 Nominal morphology and syntax of Rwa-Meru

AMANI LUSEKELO, SAMSON SARAKIKYA, AND BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

5 The noun phrase in Nugunu: Nominal structure and internal organization

THÉOPHILE AMBADIANG OMENGELE

PART 2

Tone in the internal structure of the NP

6 Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase

LARRY M. HYMAN AND FRANCIS X. KATAMBA

7 Morphology and tonology of the vocative in Basaa

EMMANUEL-MOSELLY MAKASSO

8 The augment in Shingazidja

CÉDRIC PATIN

PART 3

Anaphoric relations

9 Content words and contextual meaning: Lexical NPs as discourse anaphora in Makhuwa and Cuwabo

LUTZ MARTEN, HANNAH GIBSON, ROZENN GUÉROIS, AND TERESA POETA

10 Aspects of referent tracking in Northern Sotho

MAMPAKA LYDIA MOJAPELO

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables, black and white; 23 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-18364-0 / 1032183640
ISBN-13	978-1-032-18364-0 / 9781032183640
Zustand	Neuware