The Structure of Bantu Languages, with Focus on East Africa

7.5 credits

Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5SW007

A revised version of the reading list is available.

Main group 1

  • Encyclopedia of language & linguistics, 2. ed., Amsterdam ;a Oxford, Elsevier, 2006Compulsory
  • Nurse, Derek.; Philippson, Gérard., The Bantu languages, London, Routledge, cop. 2003, [repr. 2006]
  • Ehret, C, Bantu history: Big advance, although with a chronological, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 2015, http://www.pnas.org/content/112/44/13428.full.pdf
  • Batibo, H. M.; Rombi, M.-F., 'The evolution of na in Bantu languages', LiBRI (Linguistic and Literary Broad Research and Innovation), 2016, https://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/libri/article/download/559/599
  • de Rooij, V.A., 'Shaba Swahili', ur: J. Arends, P. Muysken & N. Smith (red.), Pidgins and creoles: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995
  • Githiora, C, 'Sheng: Peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole'., Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2002
  • Hyman, L. M., 'Niger-Congo verb extensions: Overview and discussion', ur: D. L. Payne & J. Peña (red.), Selected proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 149-163, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2007, http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/37/paper1603.pdf
  • Nurse, D, 'Bantu (Narrow) (Bantoid, E. Benue-Congo)' ur: D. Nurse, S. Rose & J. Hewson (red.), Verbal categories in Niger-Congo, 2012, http://www.mun.ca/linguistics/nico/ch4.pdf
  • Selvik, Kari-Anne, 'When a dance resembles a tree: a polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes', ur: Hubert Cuykens & Britta Zawada (red.), Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins., 2001

* Compulsory

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