Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa
| Main author: | Edelsten, Peter |
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| Other authors: | Gibson, HannahGuérois, RozennMapunda, GastorMarten, LutzTaji, Julius |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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SOAS, University of London |
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SOAS Research Online |
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English |
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English |
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Recent studies have developed a systematic approach to morphosyntactic variation among Bantu languages, taking well-known and widely attested construction types as a starting point and sketching their distribution across the family. One such approach, Guérois et al. (2017), utilises 142 morphosyntactic parameters or features, across a sample of some 50 Bantu languages (Marten et al. 2018). The present paper builds on this work and focusses on 10 parameters of variation where there is a significant difference between the values for East African Bantu languages and non-East African Bantu languages of the sample. The parameters relate to areas such as noun class morphology, agreement, and word order and so cover a wide range of morphosyntactic structures. The paper shows that the differences overall can be used for an initial characterisation of East Africa as a morphosyntactic area, with its own specific language change and language contact dynamics. |
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Journal Article |
| author |
Edelsten, Peter |
| author_facet |
Edelsten, Peter Gibson, Hannah Guérois, Rozenn Mapunda, Gastor Marten, Lutz Taji, Julius |
| authorStr |
Edelsten, Peter |
| author_letter |
Edelsten, Peter |
| author2 |
Gibson, Hannah Guérois, Rozenn Mapunda, Gastor Marten, Lutz Taji, Julius |
| author2Str |
Gibson, Hannah Guérois, Rozenn Mapunda, Gastor Marten, Lutz Taji, Julius |
| title |
Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa |
| publisher |
Language Association of Eastern Africa |
| publishDate |
2022 |
| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38833/
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