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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817107903321

Titolo

The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu / / edited by Jenneke van der Wal and Larry M. Hyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-063499-6

3-11-048842-6

3-11-048838-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 301

Classificazione

EP 13210

Disciplina

496.39

Soggetti

Bantu languages - Verb phrase

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- 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 nĩ: 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 Símákonde -- 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) -- Language index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.