The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 July 2025
- ISBN 9780198808343
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1264 pages
- Size 276x219 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This volume brings together leading scholars from the African continent and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family. The book will be an essential resource for students and researchers specializing in the Bantu languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
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This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and one of the world's biggest language groups, comprising around 500 languages. The family includes major languages with large numbers of speakers, such as Zulu, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, the most widely spoken and taught African language, as well as many community languages and several endangered languages. Bantu languages feature prominently in the complex and multilingual language ecologies that are characteristic of the linguistic situation in much of Africa and they provide rich evidence for the study of theoretical and comparative linguistics, language contact, and language change. They play an important role in education, commerce, culture, and artistic expression, in the media and public discourse, in governance and social justice, and are central to the future of the continent and the well-being of its communities.
The first part of The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages provides background and context, with chapters exploring the history of research in the field; language and prehistory in Bantu-speaking Africa; and typology and variation. Chapters in the second part offer broad comparative overviews of Bantu phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, socio- and applied linguistics, before Parts III - VII cover more specific topics in Bantu linguistics across a variety of subfields, ranging from structural issues such as the augment and melodic tone to historical and sociolinguistic topics such as Bantu languages in the diaspora and language policy and standardization. The chapters in the final part offer individual structural overviews of a range of languages from across the Bantu-speaking area. The book will be an essential resource for students and researchers specializing in the Bantu languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Historical and typological background
A history of research into Bantu linguistics
Language and (pre)history in Bantu-speaking Africa
Typology and variation
Part II. Comparative overviews
Phonology
Tone
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics and pragmatics
Sociolinguistics and applied linguistics
Part III. Topics in Bantu morphology and syntax
Noun classes and agreement
Relative clauses
Attributive possession
The augment
Subject and object marking
Object (a)symmetries
Applicative constructions
Causative constructions
Passive constructions
Inversion constructions
The conjoint/disjoint alternation
Tense and aspect
Negation
Auxiliary constructions
Locatives
Non-verbal predication
Clause linkage
Part IV. Topics in Bantu semantics and pragmatics
Lexical structures and lexical semantics
The lexicon of the mixed language Ma'á/Mbugu
Narrative discourse
Topic and focus
Part V. Topics in Bantu historical and comparative linguistics
Historical morphosyntax and syntactic change
. Micro-variation approaches to Bantu language varieties
Language contact and convergence
Phylogenetic approaches to Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu languages in the diaspora
Vowel harmony
Hiatus resolution
Consonantal processes
Imbrication
Nasal prefix segmental processes
Melodic tone
Nominal tone
Depressor consonants
Reduplication
Phonetics
Prosody-syntax interface
Intonation
Part VII. Topics in Bantu sociolinguistics and applied linguistics
Multilingualism in Bantu languages
Language endangerment and vitality
Fanakalo, a Bantu-lexified pidgin
Youth language and registers
Language policy and standardization
Towards a decolonial Bantu linguistics
Language acquisition in Bantu languages
Mental representation and processing
African languages in education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bantu languages in the media
Literatures in Bantu languages
Part VIII. Language descriptions
West Ring (Grassfields Bantu)
Barombi (A41)
Basaa (A43)
Nsamban (B85F)
Bangala (C30A)
Lingala (C30B)
Kinyarwanda (JD61)
Runyakitara (JE10A)
Luganda (JE15)
Wanga (JE32A)
Rwa (E621A), Uru (E622D), and Mkuu (E623C): Less described varieties of Kilimanjaro Bantu (Chaga) languages
Kiswahili (G40)
Chimiini (G412)
Kwangali (K33)
Cilub? (L31)
Lunda (L52)
Bemba (M42)
Matengo (N13)
Chinyanja/Chichewa (N31)
Emakhuwa (P31)
Otjiherero (R30)
Zulu (S42)
References
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
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