The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu / edited by Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman.
Material type: TextSeries: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 301.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (458 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9783110490831
- 3110490838
- 9783110488425
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- 496.39 23
- PL8025.1 .C66 2017
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 n�i : 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 S�im�akonde -- 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).
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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