Grammar of Nzadi [B865] - A Bantu Language of Democratic Republic of Congo

Zusatztext "A Grammar of Nzadi makes a truly outstanding contribution to the still-too-small but growing collection of full Bantu grammars." Informationen zum Autor Thera Marie Crane is a postdoctoral researcher with the Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification (GRAMIS) project at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, specializing in tense, aspect, and mood expression in Bantu languages. Larry M. Hyman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and specializes in phonology, typology, and African linguistics. Simon T. Nsielanga is a Jesuit Vice-Directeur of Loyola Hope Center in Lome, Togo, and a researcher in pre-colonial and colonial political African history. Klappentext Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This title covers the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes. Zusammenfassung Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This title covers the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes.

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• Authors: Thera Marie Crane, Thera Marie Hyman Crane, Crane Thera Marie, Larry M. Hyman, Hyman Larry M., Simon Nsielanga Tukumu, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu S. J., Tukumu Simon Nsielanga
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780520098862
• ISBN: 978-0-520-09886-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: UC Publications in Linguistics; UC Publications in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Bantu languages