Author: James Anthony Pritchett
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813926247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Transporting the reader to a place few have heard of, to examine the lives of people few will ever meet, Friends for Life, Friends for Death is an accessible account of day-to-day life and social construction in contemporary rural Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 708
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 632
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Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 878
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-07-03
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0191553603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.