The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu

This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure.

About the author

Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge, UK & Larry M. Hyman, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Hyman, Larry M Hyman, Larry M. Hyman, Jenneke van der Wal, Jenneke Wal, Jenneke van der Wal
• Assisted by: Larry M. Hyman (Editor), M Hyman (Editor), M Hyman (Editor), Jennek van der Wal (Editor), Jenneke van der Wal (Editor), Jenneke Wal (Editor), Jenneke van der Wal (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783110488388
• ISBN: 978-3-11-048838-8
• No. of pages: 458
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 29 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 811 g
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics