Chapter 10 is about how to reconstuct Proto-Bantu, the putative most recent common
ancestor of all Bantu languages, by using the Comparative Method. The chapter includes a …

An introduction to the special collection" Early Descriptors and Descriptions of South Asian
Languages from the 16th Century Onwards" that develops the main ideas on which the …

Jesuits have been in Africa since the founding of their order, yet their history there remains
poorly researched. Although scholars have begun to focus on specific regions such as …

Este artigo apresenta uma visão panorâmica das primeiras descrições gramaticais das
línguas nativas do centro-oeste africano dos antigos reinos do Congo e de Angola, e de …

Resumo Pedro Dias, SJ (1621/1622-1700) publicou a primeira gramática conhecida do
Kimbundu, intitulado Arte da Lingua de Angola, oeferecida (sic) a Virgem Senhora N [ossa] …

The book is organized into three main sections. The first section, entitled'Introduction'gives a
short historical contextualisation of the author and of his Arte; it describes the physical …

Tamil verb stems may be inclusive of a voice morpheme that encodes the degree of agency
of the verb. Hence, using Paramasivam's (1979) terminology, these kinds of verbs are paired …

O presente estudo descreve as interferências da morfossintaxe do kimbundu no português
falado em Malanje, no sentido de se colocar à disposição da comunidade académica …

Cristina Muru (b. 1978) received her PhD in Historical Linguistics at the University of Rome
'La Sapienza'in 2009. She is currently Researcher and Adjunct Professor of Sociolinguistics …

Con las firmas de los Tratados de Tordesillas (7 de junio de 1494) y de Zaragoza (22 de
abril de 1529), los reyes de Portugal y de España decidieron las esferas de influencia de …