Full Description
This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. This volume speaks to contemporary debates on the Bantu noun phrase, seeking to stimulate a greater understanding of the true nature of adnominal modification, definiteness, and anaphoric relations associated with it, with respect to various segmental and supra-segmental, noun formation, and noun classification phenomena. The ten chapters take the reader through the Grassfields, North-Western, North-Eastern and Southern present-day Bantu homeland, making important contributions to the documentation and analysis of Bantu languages.
The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives is unique in its inclusion of so many North-Eastern Bantu languages in its discourse on Bantu linguistics and this important collection will be of particular interest to those researching, teaching, and studying African languages and linguistics.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction: Conceptualizing the Bantu noun phrase
BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH
PART 1
Phrase structure
2 On the size and category of Bantu nominal expressions
VICKI CARSTENS
3 Adjectives in the Ngamambo noun phrase: Issues of pre- and post-modification
BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH
4 Nominal morphology and syntax of Rwa-Meru
AMANI LUSEKELO, SAMSON SARAKIKYA, AND BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH
5 The noun phrase in Nugunu: Nominal structure and internal organization
THÉOPHILE AMBADIANG OMENGELE
PART 2
Tone in the internal structure of the NP
6 Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase
LARRY M. HYMAN AND FRANCIS X. KATAMBA
7 Morphology and tonology of the vocative in Basaa
EMMANUEL-MOSELLY MAKASSO
8 The augment in Shingazidja
CÉDRIC PATIN
PART 3
Anaphoric relations
9 Content words and contextual meaning: Lexical NPs as discourse anaphora in Makhuwa and Cuwabo
LUTZ MARTEN, HANNAH GIBSON, ROZENN GUÉROIS, AND TERESA POETA
10 Aspects of referent tracking in Northern Sotho
MAMPAKA LYDIA MOJAPELO
Index
