So-called Final Vowel (FV) morphemes are an integral part of the verbal inflectional morphology of most Bantu languages, though relatively little attention has been paid to their historical development in the context of the overall Bantu verbal system. A small set of FVs is reconstructed as appearing at the end of verbs and, along with other morphemes, they play a role in encoding tense, aspect, mood, and polarity. This chapter reconsiders the reconstruction of the Bantu FV system, with the goal of arriving at a better understanding of what the situation may have been like in Proto-Bantu (PB) with respect to these morphemes and how a system of inflectional marking of this kind could have developed. Data is drawn from languages of the north-...
This paper investigates the Proto-Bantu origins of the principal tonal classes in Kinande nonderived...
Meeussen’s (1967: 108–111) Proto-Bantu reconstruction involves a morphologically compact predicate w...
In this paper we look at locative morphemes that occur in the post-final slot of Bantu verbs. We dis...
Although Proto-Bantu had a vowel length contrast on roots which survives in many daughter languages...
This chapter introduces the notion of suffixal phrasemes to designate the semantically non-compositi...
The most problematic of the consonants that Meeussen reconstructed for Proto-Bantu (PB) phonology is...
In this chapter the relevance of Bantoid for the reconstruction of verbal extensions in Proto-Bantu ...
When the morphology of a language creates instances of successive vowels, these cases of vowel hiatu...
This article discusses three main phenomena in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology of Bantu langu...
Bantu vowel height harmony has been described in a number of works (see e.g. Hyman 1999), and has of...
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation a...
Abstract: This chapter surveys the main phonological phenomena found in Bantu lan-guages. One such p...
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
Bantu verbal forms are notoriously complex from a morphological point of view, in that they consist ...
This paper investigates the Proto-Bantu origins of the principal tonal classes in Kinande nonderived...
Meeussen’s (1967: 108–111) Proto-Bantu reconstruction involves a morphologically compact predicate w...
In this paper we look at locative morphemes that occur in the post-final slot of Bantu verbs. We dis...
Although Proto-Bantu had a vowel length contrast on roots which survives in many daughter languages...
This chapter introduces the notion of suffixal phrasemes to designate the semantically non-compositi...
The most problematic of the consonants that Meeussen reconstructed for Proto-Bantu (PB) phonology is...
In this chapter the relevance of Bantoid for the reconstruction of verbal extensions in Proto-Bantu ...
When the morphology of a language creates instances of successive vowels, these cases of vowel hiatu...
This article discusses three main phenomena in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology of Bantu langu...
Bantu vowel height harmony has been described in a number of works (see e.g. Hyman 1999), and has of...
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation a...
Abstract: This chapter surveys the main phonological phenomena found in Bantu lan-guages. One such p...
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown...
Bantu verbal forms are notoriously complex from a morphological point of view, in that they consist ...
This paper investigates the Proto-Bantu origins of the principal tonal classes in Kinande nonderived...
Meeussen’s (1967: 108–111) Proto-Bantu reconstruction involves a morphologically compact predicate w...
In this paper we look at locative morphemes that occur in the post-final slot of Bantu verbs. We dis...