The Bantu Noun Phrase

This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase.

Autorentext

Blasius Achiri-Taboh is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Buea, Cameroon.

Inhalt

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing the Bantu noun phrase

BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

PART 1

Phrase structure

2 On the size and category of Bantu nominal expressions

VICKI CARSTENS

3 Adjectives in the Ngamambo noun phrase: Issues of pre- and post-modification

BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

4 Nominal morphology and syntax of Rwa-Meru

AMANI LUSEKELO, SAMSON SARAKIKYA, AND BLASIUS ACHIRI-TABOH

5 The noun phrase in Nugunu: Nominal structure and internal organization

THÉOPHILE AMBADIANG OMENGELE

PART 2

Tone in the internal structure of the NP

6 Tonology of the Luganda noun phrase

LARRY M. HYMAN AND FRANCIS X. KATAMBA

7 Morphology and tonology of the vocative in Basaa

EMMANUEL-MOSELLY MAKASSO

8 The augment in Shingazidja

CÉDRIC PATIN

PART 3

Anaphoric relations

9 Content words and contextual meaning: Lexical NPs as discourse anaphora in Makhuwa and Cuwabo

LUTZ MARTEN, HANNAH GIBSON, ROZENN GUÉROIS, AND TERESA POETA

10 Aspects of referent tracking in Northern Sotho

MAMPAKA LYDIA MOJAPELO

Index