35.1886, Books: Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Gibson, Guérois, Mapunda and Marten (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 28-Jun-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Gibson, Guérois, Mapunda and Marten (eds.) (2024)


Title: Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
Subtitle: Descriptive and comparative approaches
Series Title: Contemporary African Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/383

Editor: Hannah Gibson
Editor: Rozenn Guérois
Editor: Gastor Mapunda
Editor: Lutz Marten
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-433-8 Pages: 444 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of
Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a
number of broad typological similarities, including, for example,
complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology.
However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation.
Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation
across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as
double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object
marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives.

 Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the
dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to
the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation,
with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East
African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms
of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different
linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic
dynamics.

 The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing
together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an
individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth
examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of
languages.

The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages
under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language,
language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related
languages spoken in close geographic proximity.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Central Bantu

Written In: English (eng)



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