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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages

English · Hardback

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The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives.    Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics.    The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages.   The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.

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Assisted by Hannah Gibson (Editor), Rozenn Guérois (Editor), Gastor Mapunda (Editor), Lutz Marten (Editor)
Publisher Language Science Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 19.02.2024
 
EAN 9783985540914
ISBN 978-3-98554-091-4
No. of pages 444
Dimensions 175 mm x 246 mm x 33 mm
Weight 1018 g
Series Contemporary African Linguistics 8
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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