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- Bar-el, L., et al.
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(Im)perfectivity and actionality in East Ruvu Bantu
- 2021
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Ingår i: Language Typology and Universals. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1867-8319 .- 2196-7148. ; 74:3-4, s. 533-559
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Temporal/aspectual morphology often serves as a diagnostic for actional classes. Bantu languages are known for their highly developed tense, aspect (and mood) systems. The East Ruvu Bantu languages of Tanzania are unusual in that they exhibit a decidedly reduced set of temporal/aspectual morphemes. This paper contributes to the growing body of research on Bantu actionality in showing that despite not being encoded overtly, perfective distinguishes between at least two actional classes. We suggest, however, that imperfective, morphologically encoded by present and non-past tense morphology, does not clearly delineate between the two verb classes. This discussion highlights the complex interaction between tense and aspect.
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- Bloom Ström, Eva-Marie, 1967, et al.
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Paradisets språkliga rötter
- 2022
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Ingår i: Språktidningen. - 1654-5028. ; :2, s. 56-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Om swahili och hur Abdulrazak Gurnah använder språket i boken Paradiset
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- Botne, Robert Dale Olson, et al.
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Temporal Status vs. Timescape Status in Kami and Gyeli
- 2023
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Ingår i: Domains and Regions in Bantu Tense and Aspect / edited by Robert Botne and Axel Fanego Palat.. - Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. - 9783896457721 ; , s. 77-104
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Dom, Sebastian, 1990, et al.
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. - 0167-6164 .- 1613-3811. ; 44:2, s. 129-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the formal correspondences between the members of verb pairs participating in the noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, a Bantu language from Tanzania. Our investigation shows that Kagulu has a predominance of equipollent verb pairs, with the anticausative and causative correspondences following close behind. We argue that, diachronically, the causative correspondence was much more prominent than it is in present-day Kagulu. However, due to morphophonological changes triggered by the historical causative suffix *-i, a significant number of verb pairs that are diachronically causative can be synchronically reanalyzed as equipollent. This study highlights the complexity of diachronic morphology in synchronic analyses of comparative-typological phenomena such as the noncausal/causal alternation, and contributes to the growing body of research on noncausal/causal verb pairs in African languages.
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- Hammarström, Harald, et al.
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Bootstrapping Language Description : The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), 28-30 may 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Linguists have long been producing grammatical decriptions of yet undescribed languages. This is a time-consuming process, which has already adapted to improved technology for recording and storage. We present here a novel application of NLP techniques to bootstrap analysis of collected data and speed-up manual selection work. To be more precise, we argue that unsupervised induction of morphology and part-of-speech analysis from raw text data is mature enough to produce useful results. Experiments with Latent Semantic Analysis were less fruitful. We exemplify this on Mpiemo, a so-far essentially undescribed Bantu language of the Central African Republic, for which raw text data was available.
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- Marten, Lutz, et al.
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Linguistic variation and the dynamics of language documentation: Editing in ‘pure’ Kagulu
- 2016
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Ingår i: Language Documentation & Conservation. - 1934-5275. ; 10, s. 105-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Tanzanian ethnic community language Kagulu is in extended language contact with the national language Swahili and other neighbouring community languages. The effects of contact are seen in vocabulary and structure, leading to a high degree of linguistic variation and to the development of distinct varieties of ‘pure’ and ‘mixed’ Kagulu. A comprehensive documentation of the language needs to take this variation into account and to provide a description of the different varieties and their interaction. The paper illustrates this point by charting the development of a specific text within a language documentation project. A comparison of three versions of the text – a recorded oral story, a transcribed version of it and a further, edited version in which features of pure Kagulu are edited in – shows the dynamics of how the different versions of the text interact and provides a detailed picture of linguistic variation and of speakers’ use and exploitation of it. We show that all versions of the text are valid, ‘authentic’ representations of their own linguistic reality, and how all three of them, and the processes of their genesis, are an integral part of a comprehensive documentation of Kagulu and its linguistic ecology.
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