From a corpus of 255 names related to the canoe and gathered from some 200 Bantu languages, the author selected four nominal stems that she analyses in depth at the formal and semantic levels. The study reaches some interesting conclusions at the theoretical and historical levels. First of all, the data proves wrong the hypothesis according to which nominal stems in Proto-Bantu had invariably an initial consonantal. To the contrary, in the protolanguage, the canonical *-CV(CV) structure must have coexisted with a *-VCV structure. At the cultural history level, the comparative distribution of the four selected stems is revelatory. Alongside a very old root for ‘ canoe’, spread throughout the Bantu zone except for the extreme south, innovat...
This article proposes reconstructions of words for "mortar" in Bantu languages. Comparative research...
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin o...
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past A...
From a corpus of 255 names related to the canoe and gathered from some 200 Bantu languages, the auth...
This PhD thesis consists of the documentation, reconstruction and classfication of ten Bantu languag...
In this article, we assess the genealogical validity of West‑Coastal Bantu (WCB) as a major subclade...
The Bantu family is the largest African language family in terms of geographic and demographic sprea...
Working in terms of a genetic tree diagram, reconstructing features of any intermediate node in the ...
This paper examines reflexes of Proto-Bantu phonemes in Cibinji cya Ngusu, a Bantu language classifi...
The article suggests making a distinction between the prototypes of the noun class systems in synchr...
In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium La...
In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium La...
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin o...
In this chapter the relevance of Bantoid for the reconstruction of verbal extensions in Proto-Bantu ...
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the ea...
This article proposes reconstructions of words for "mortar" in Bantu languages. Comparative research...
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin o...
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past A...
From a corpus of 255 names related to the canoe and gathered from some 200 Bantu languages, the auth...
This PhD thesis consists of the documentation, reconstruction and classfication of ten Bantu languag...
In this article, we assess the genealogical validity of West‑Coastal Bantu (WCB) as a major subclade...
The Bantu family is the largest African language family in terms of geographic and demographic sprea...
Working in terms of a genetic tree diagram, reconstructing features of any intermediate node in the ...
This paper examines reflexes of Proto-Bantu phonemes in Cibinji cya Ngusu, a Bantu language classifi...
The article suggests making a distinction between the prototypes of the noun class systems in synchr...
In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium La...
In this article, the oldest Bantu dictionary hitherto known is explored, that is the Vocabularium La...
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin o...
In this chapter the relevance of Bantoid for the reconstruction of verbal extensions in Proto-Bantu ...
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the ea...
This article proposes reconstructions of words for "mortar" in Bantu languages. Comparative research...
This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin o...
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past A...