TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bostoen,Koen
AU  - Cook,Toni
AU  - Creissels,Denis
AU  - Devos,Maud
AU  - Fiedler,Ines
AU  - Gibson,Hannah
AU  - Halpert,Claire
AU  - Hyman,Larry M.
AU  - Koumbarou,Andriana
AU  - Kula,Nancy C.
AU  - Manus,Sophie
AU  - Marten,Lutz
AU  - Morimoto,Yukiko
AU  - Ngoboka,Jean Paul
AU  - Nshemezimana,Ernest
AU  - Wal,Jenneke van der
AU  - Yoneda,Nobuko
AU  - Zeller,Jochen
AU  - Zerbian,Sabine
AU  - van der Wal,Jenneke
TI  - The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110488388
AV  - PL8025 .C67 2017
U1  - 496.39 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Bantu languages
KW  - Case
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Verb
KW  - Bantu
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of contents --; Contributors --; 1. Introduction --; 2. What is the conjoint/disjoint alternation? Parameters of crosslinguistic variation --; 3. Locating the Bantu conjoint/disjoint alternation in a typology of focus marking --; 4. Disentangling conjoint, disjoint, metatony, tone cases, augments, prosody, and focus in Bantu --; 5. Shangaji paired tenses: Emergence of a cj/dj system? --; 6. The Kikuyu focus marker nĩ: Formal and functional similarities to the conjoint/disjoint alternation --; 7. Conjoint and disjoint verb forms in Gur? Evidence from Yom --; 8. The conjoint/disjoint distinction in the tonal morphology of Tswana --; 9. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Símákonde --; 10. The conjoint/disjoint alternation and phonological phrasing in Bemba --; 11. Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu --; 12. Prosody/syntax mismatches in the Zulu conjoint/disjoint alternation --; 13. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kinyarwanda --; 14. The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Kirundi (JD62): A case for its abolition --; 15. Conjoint/disjoint distinction and focus in Matengo (N13) --; Language index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This volume brings together descriptions and analyses of the conjoint/disjoint alternation, a typologically significant phenomenon found in many Bantu languages. The chapters provide in-depth documentation, comparative studies and theoretical analyses of the alternation from a range of Bantu languages, showing its crosslinguistic variation in constituent structure, morphology, prosody and information structure
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490831
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110490831
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110490831/original
ER  -