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Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Lutz Marten - Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu, Inbunden

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Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu

Av Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Lutz Marten

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This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the wealth of empirical and conceptual work in the field. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu languages as well as drawing on a wider comparative set of more than 200 languages from across Central, Eastern and Southern Africa: some studies focus on one specific language in a comparative context; some investigate fine-grained variation among a close-knit group of languages; and others present large-scale comparative studies spanning the whole of the Bantu-speaking area. The contributors address a range of topics from a micro-variation perspective, primarily in the areas of nominal and verbal morphology and syntax and information structure. The volume highlights key aspects of contemporary research in Bantu morphosyntax and outlines distinct and novel approaches to prominent questions; it combines the most recent thinking on morphosyntactic variation in Bantu with different theoretical and methodological approaches and novel empirical data from a wide range of languages.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-11-05
  • Mått: 165 x 242 x 29 mm
  • Vikt: 906 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 464
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780198821359
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Eva-Marie Bloom Ström is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include information structure in languages with flexible sentence structure, such as the Bantu languages, as well as language description and documentation. She works primarily on languages of Tanzania and South Africa.Hannah Gibson is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex. Her research examines linguistic variation with a focus on the morphosyntax of Bantu languages of Eastern and Southern Africa. She works also on language contact, language change, and multilingualism.Rozenn Guérois is a Researcher at the LLACAN-CNRS and a Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include the description of Bantu languages spoken in Mozambique, morphosyntactic variation, typology, and comparative and historical linguistics.Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at SOAS University of London. He is interested in linguistic theory, comparative and historical linguistics, and questions of language and identity. Most of his work focuses on African languages and he has carried out research in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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This book is a welcome addition to a growing field of comparative Bantu morphosyntax, showing how the language family provides many interesting case studies of fine-grained variation which can be used to test hypotheses about diachronic syntax. The chapters are united by this general theme, but vary in method, scope, and topic, and so are most likely to be read separately by researchers interested in a specific topic or by teachers looking to illustrate topics in Bantu grammar in their classes. I can also imagine one of the chapters serving as a useful starting point for a BA or MA dissertation project, which could for example investigate whether the patterns found in the chapter are found in fieldwork on a new language, or alternatively consider a wider sample of languages using descriptive grammars.

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