34.980, Books: On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar: Bostoen, Maurice de Schryver, Guérois, Pacchiarotti (eds.)

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Subject: 34.980, Books: On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar: Bostoen, Maurice de Schryver, Guérois, Pacchiarotti (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:59:40
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar: Bostoen, Maurice de Schryver, Guérois, Pacchiarotti (eds.)

 


Title: On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar 
Series Title: Niger-Congo Comparative Studies  

Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/373 


Editor: Koen Bostoen
Editor: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Editor: Rozenn Guérois
Editor: Sara Pacchiarotti

Electronic: ISBN:  978396110406 Pages: 808 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral
language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a
low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still
Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the
phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to
communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues
raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a
fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of
expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic
approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical
Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five
decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book
considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers
new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Bantoid
                      Bantu-Cushitic 


Written In: English  (eng)

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