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Bantu historical linguistics : theoretical and empirical perspectives / edited by Jean-Marie Hombert & Larry M. Hyman.
- Title
- Bantu historical linguistics : theoretical and empirical perspectives / edited by Jean-Marie Hombert & Larry M. Hyman.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, c1999.
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- Description
- ix, 596 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- CSLI lecture notes ; no. 99
- Uniform Title
- CSLI lecture notes no. 99.
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- Note
- Based on papers presented at a conference held at the Université Lumière Lyon2 on May 30-June 1, 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- English, with three papers in French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Towards a historical classification of East African Bantu languages / Derek Nurse -- Subclassifying Bantu / Christopher Ehret -- Classifications lexicostatistiques : bantou, bantou et bantoïde / Yvonne Bastin & Pascale Piron -- A note on historical and geographical relations among the Bantu languages / Michael Mann -- Contact and lexicostatistics in comparative Bantu studies / Thomas J. Hinnebusch -- Nasal vowel creation without nasal consonant deletion, and the eventual loss of nasal vowels thus created : the pre-Bantu case / John M. Stewart -- The historical interpretation of vowel harmony in Bantu / Larry M. Hyman -- Remarks on the sound correspondences between proto-Bantu and Tswana (S.31) / Denis Creissels -- Vowel systems and spirantization in S.W. Tanzania / Catherine Labroussi.
- Katupa's law in Makhuwa / Thilo C. Schadeberg -- Unresolved puzzles in Bantu historical tonology / Gérard Philippson -- L'augment en bantou du nord-ouest / Claire Grégoire & Baudouin Janssens -- Les formes nomino-verbales de classes 5 et 15 dans les langues bantoues du Nord-Ouest / Pascale Hadermann -- Future and distal -ka-'s : proto-Bantu or nascent form(s)? / Robert Botne -- Tense and aspect in Lacustrine Bantu languages / Derek Nurse & Henery Muzale -- The genesis of verbal negation in Bantu and its dependency on functional features of clause types / Tom Güldemann.
- ISBN
- 1575862034 (alk. paper)
- 1575862042 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99013461^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library