Edelsten, Peter and Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2022) Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa. Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 1 (1). pp. 1-22. DOI https://doi.org/10.5642/jlaea.omug7174
Edelsten, Peter and Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2022) Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa. Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 1 (1). pp. 1-22. DOI https://doi.org/10.5642/jlaea.omug7174
Edelsten, Peter and Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2022) Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa. Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 1 (1). pp. 1-22. DOI https://doi.org/10.5642/jlaea.omug7174
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics, Department of |
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Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2023 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jun 2023 14:39 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/35311 |
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