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Tense and Aspect in Bantu (Hardcover)
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Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense
and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest
language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern,
and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and
Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of
them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described.
Professor Nurse's account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu
languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely
available on the publisher's website.
He devotes substantial chapters to the analysis and comparison of
the different tense and aspect systems found in Bantu. He also
examines the verbal categories with which they interact, including
negation and focus. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are
interwoven throughout the book. Following a brief history of Bantu
over the last five thousand years, the final two chapters look
systematically at the history of tense and aspect in Bantu. The
first deals with the reconstruction of the earlier forms from which
contemporary structures, morphemes, and categories are derived, and
the second with the processes of change, including
grammaticalization, by means of which older analytical structures
and independent lexical items moved as they became incorporated as
grammatical inflections and categories.
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