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The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu / ed. by Larry M. Hyman, Jenneke van der Wal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 301Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (X, 458 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110488388
  • 9783110488425
  • 9783110490831
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 496.39 23
LOC classification:
  • PL8025 .C67 2017
  • PL8025.1 .C66 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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