Nominal morphology and syntax

M Van de Velde - The Bantu languages, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
The chapter on nominal morphology and syntax provides an analysis of the Bantu noun
phrase. An overview of the well-known characteristics of the noun class system is …

[图书][B] A grammar of Fwe

H Gunnink - 2022 - library.oapen.org
This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe.
Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some …

[PDF][PDF] A grammar of Fwe: A Bantu language of Zambia and Namibia

H Gunnink - 2018 - academia.edu
Without diminishing the emotional trials and suffering that some PhD students go through,
writing this dissertation has been an incredibly fun experience. Working on a single topic, as …

The multifunctionality of-o in Rukiga: pronoun, contrastive topic, and mirative marker

A Asiimwe, J van der Wal - Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 - njas.fi
This paper discusses the particle-o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its
origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun …

[PDF][PDF] The structure, distribution and function of demonstratives in Runyankore-Rukiga

A Asiimwe - Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu …, 2024 - eprints.soas.ac.uk
The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of the morpho-syntactic characteristics and
functions of demonstratives in Runyankore-Rukiga (Bantu JE. 13-JE. 14, Uganda). The …

[PDF][PDF] Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili

L Marten, H Gibson, R Guérois, K Jerro - 2024 - eprints.soas.ac.uk
The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on
contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do not have a long-written …

[PDF][PDF] Microvariation in Western Serengeti: Comparative Morphosyntax of Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and Ngoreme

AO Laine - 2023 - helda.helsinki.fi
This dissertation provides a comparative morphosyntactic description of the previously
largely undescribed Western Serengeti language varieties (Ikoma, Ishenyi, Nata and …

Discourse functions of demonstratives in Eastern Bantu narrative texts

S Nicolle - Studies in African Linguistics, 2014 - journals.flvc.org
Demonstratives are an important feature of many eastern Bantu narrative texts. In addition to
a basic tracking use, in which demonstratives are used to refer to different participants in a …

[PDF][PDF] Digo narrative discourse

S Nicolle - Language and Culture Documentation and Description, 2015 - academia.edu
This paper describes the linguistic features of narrative texts in Digo based on a corpus of
non-translated texts. Digo, or Chidigo (Ethnologue code [dig]), is a Bantu language …

Cuwabo P34

R Guérois - The Bantu Languages, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Cuwabo (P34) is a Bantu language spoken by more than 800,000 people in the north-
eastern part of Mozambique. This chapter is a grammatical sketch of “central Cuwabo,” ie …