SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 15 (2007)
Bantu in Bloomsbury: Special Issue on Bantu Linguistics
Editors: Nancy C. Kula and Lutz Marten
Contents
- 1-2 Introduction
Nancy C. Kula and Lutz Marten
Phonology
- 7-18 Stem Tone Melodies in Cilungu
Lee Bickmore - 19-31 The Exponence of TAM in Bakweri
Michael Marlo and David Odden - 33-48 On Recent Trends in Phonology: Vowel Sequences in Bantu Languages
Al Mtenje
Syntax-Phonology
- 51-63 The Prosody and Syntax of Zulu Relative Clauses
Lisa Cheng and Laura J. Downing - 65-78 A First Approach to Information Structuring in Xitsonga/Xichangana
Sabine Zerbian
Syntax
- 81-104 Leftward Focus versus Rightward Focus: The Kwa-Bantu Conspiracy
Enoch Oladé Aboh - 105-120 Semantic and Formal Locatives: Implications for the Bantu Locative Inversion Typology
Leston Buell - 121-134 Minimal Verbal and Adjectival Inflection in Dibole
Myles Leitch - 135-148 The Structure of the Bantu Noun Phrase
Josephat M. Rugemalira
Semantics and Pragmatics
- 151-157 Semantic Classification and Chichewa Derived Nouns
Thokozani Kunkeyani - 159-171 Textual Functions of Chidigo demonstratives
Steve Nicolle - 173-184 Lexical Density in Oral versus Written Rangi Texts
Oliver Stegen
Comparative and Historical Linguistics
- 187-200 Complex Verb Morphology in Kulango (Gur): Similarities and Dissimilarities with Bantu
Stefan Elders - 201-211 Reconstructing the Proto-Bantu Verbal Unit: Internal Evidence
Larry M. Hyman - 213-225 The Linear Ordering of TAM/NEG Markers in the Bantu Languages
Jouni Filip Maho - 227-238 Morphosyntactic co-variation in Bantu: two case studies
Lutz Marten and Nancy C. Kula - 239-256 Did the Proto-Bantu Verb have a Synthetic or an Analytic Structure?
Derek Nurse
