The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC)
| Autor: | Koen Bostoen, Sara Pacchiarotti |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Sound change History media_common.quotation_subject West-Coastal Bantu 05 social sciences shared morphological innovations Bantu languages Verb internal classification 06 humanities and the arts 050105 experimental psychology Agreement Noun phrase Linguistics Languages and Literatures Prefix Noun class paradigm levelling Diachronic analysis 0602 languages and literature noun class system 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common sound change |
| Zdroj: | LANGUAGE IN AFRICA |
| ISSN: | 2686-8946 |
| Popis: | In this paper we offer a first systematic account of the noun class system of Ngwi, a West-Coastal Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. First, we describe the synchronic system of noun class prefixes and the agreement patterns they trigger on constituents of the noun phrase and the verb. Second, we provide a diachronic analysis of the innovations the synchronic Ngwi noun class system underwent with respect to the noun class system reconstructed for the most recent common ancestor of all Narrow Bantu languages. Finally, we compare the morphological innovations found in the Ngwi noun class system with those identified in the noun class systems of other West-Coastal Bantu varieties and assess whether some of these could be diagnostic for internal classification within this western Bantu branch. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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