The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Blasius Achiri-Taboh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. The 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing the Bantu noun phrase
Part 1 Phrase structure
Chapter 2 On the size and category of Bantu nominal expressions
Chapter 3 Adjectives in the Ngamambo noun phrase: Issues of pre- and post-modification
Chapter 4 Nominal morphology and syntax of Rwa-Meru
Chapter 5 The noun phrase in Nugunu: Nominal structure and internal organization
Part 2 Tone in the internal structure of the NP
Chapter 6 Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase
Chapter 7 Morphology and tonology of the vocative in Basaa
Chapter 8 The augment in Shingazidja
Part 3 Anaphoric relations
Chapter 9 Content words and contextual meaning: Lexical NPs as discourse anaphora in Makhuwa and Cuwabo
Chapter 10 Aspects of referent tracking in Northern Sotho
Index