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The Bantu?Romance Connection
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 173.00This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures. In particular, it explores the timely and much debated issues of verbal morphology and agreement, the structure of DPs, and word... more...
Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 231.00The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family. One of the findings of... more...
A Grammar of Wandala
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00This is the first description of a most interesting Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria. The grammar provides proofs for all hypotheses concerning forms and functions grammaticalized in the language. The grammar is written in a style accessible to linguists working within different theoretical frameworks. more...
Focus Strategies in African Languages
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00The book contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. It investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others. The volume enhances... more...
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 164.99Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website. - ;Derek Nurse looks at variations... more...
Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone
De Gruyter 1984; US$ 133.00Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone more...
The Manenguba Languages (Bantu A. 15 Mbo Cluster) of Cameroon
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95Published in 2004, The Manenguba Languages of Cameroon is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies. more...
The Bafaw Language: Bantu A10
Langaa RPCIG 2010; US$ 28.95The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Buea. It is the first serious piece of work on this highly endangered language, and aims to account generally for the data of Bafaw. The work therefore lays the foundation for more advanced work in the future. It provides... more...
Khoesan Languages
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 360.00The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development. According to a widely accepted hypothesis, the Khoesan languages represent the smallest of the four language phyla in Africa,... more...
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