Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: The case of Setswana by Nancy Kula, Lutz Marten

“…Setswana morpho-syntactic structures for these constructions present instances that distinguish Setswana from Eastern Bantu languages and yet also cases of similarity with patterns more commonly attested in Eastern rather than Southern Bantu languages. …”
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Implementation of a Part-of-Speech Ontology by Elsabé Taljard, Gertrud Faaß, Sonja Bosch

“…By giving a detailed account of the methodology for the population of the database, we provide linguists from other Bantu languages with a road map for extending the database to also include their languages of specialization. …”
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The V and CV augment and exhaustivity in Kinyakyusa by Jenneke van der Wal, Amani Lusekelo

“… In addition to the stem and noun class prefix, the structure of nouns in Bantu languages may contain an augment. This augment typically is a vowel, but some languages show a CV augment. …”
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Considerazioni per uno studio delle lingue bantu by Gloria Cocchi

“…The first one discusses the typical features which characterize Bantu languages, in particular analysing the criteria which have been individuated in order to classify a given language as Bantu. …”
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What is Rukavango? by Pedro Lusakalalu

“…This framework is better presented using Bantu languages in which toponyms, ethnonyms and glossonyms correlate through the same stems. …”
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The contributions of reading and phonological awareness for spelling in grade three isiXhosa learners by Mikaela A. Daries, Tracy N. Bowles, Maxine N. Schaefer

“…Background: One factor which is consistently highlighted in research on literacy is the lack of understanding of how literacy develops in the Southern-Bantu languages. In particular, little is known about spelling in the Southern-Bantu languages such as isiXhosa. …”
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Reduplicazione in swahili. Iconismo e oltre by Marina Castagneto

“…KEYWORDS: reduplication, Swahili, Bantu languages, iconism, semantics…”
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Ikoma Verbal Tone by Lotta Aunio

“… Ikoma is a Bantu language spoken in the Mara Region (Western Tanzania). …”
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Properties of applied objects in Kiswahili and Kindendeule by Deo Ngonyani

“…This paper examines objects which are licensed by the applicative affix in the Bantu languages of Kindendeule and Kiswahili. The data show that all verbs can take the applicative suffix deriving transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, and ditransitive verbs from transitive verbs. …”
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The circumstantial forms of Tswana verbs and the notion of participle by Denis Creissels

“… This article discusses the status of a set of verb forms found in Tswana and other Southern Bantu languages, designated as participial forms in the South-African Bantuist tradition. …”
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Computational Description of Verbs in Disjoining Writing Systems by Arvi Hurskainen, Louis Louwrens, George Poulos

“… In this paper we discuss the problems encountered in the morphological description of verbs in those Bantu languages, which use a disjoining writing system. …”
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La negazione in swahili. Un viaggio nel labirinto della grammatica by Marina Castagneto

“…KEYWORDS: Negation, verbal morphology, Kiswahili, Bantu languages, grammaticalization…”
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The lexicalization of concepts of time in naming sequences of days in Tanzanian Bantu by Amani Lusekelo

“…I argue against this claim and establish that both pasts and futures are elaborate at least in 26 Tanzanian Bantu languages. I used names of sequences of days which discretisize the actual events into eight time-frames, equally four on both sides beyond speech time. …”
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Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: On Colonial Divisions, Discourses of National Belonging, and Language Boundaries by Nico Nassenstein

“… The development of the Bantu languages Kinyarwanda and Kirundi is entangled within the colonial histories of Rwanda and Burundi, first under German and then Belgian rule. …”
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Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: On Colonial Divisions, Discourses of National Belonging, and Language Boundaries by Nico Nassenstein

“… The development of the Bantu languages Kinyarwanda and Kirundi is entangled within the colonial histories of Rwanda and Burundi, first under German and then Belgian rule. …”
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Morphological Parsing of Tone by Lotta Harjula

“…However, since the Two-Level Morphology (Koskenniemi 1983) has proven successful with another Bantu language, Swahili (Hurskainen 1999), it is worth testing its possibilities with the tonally more challenging Bantu languages. …”
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Looking for evidentiality (and mirativity) in Bantu by Thera Marie Crane

“… Although Bantu languages are not known for having grammaticalized and obligatory systems of evidentiality, research is uncovering more and more evidential contrasts and evidential strategies, as well as expressions of related categories like mirativity. …”
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MIRATIVITY IN BANTU: THE CASE OF GĨKŨYŨ (E51) AND KISWAHILI (G42) by Claudius P. Kihara

“… This paper argues for the recognition of mirative marking in two Bantu languages: Gĩkũyũ and Kiswahili. It shows that the two languages use lexical particles to indicate mirativity. …”
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Le pluriel en fang ntumu by Régis Ollomo Ella

“…Fang is a bantu language. It contains 5 dialects and ntúmú is one of them. …”
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Kinyarwanda and Kirundi: On Colonial Divisions, Discourses of National Belonging, and Language Boundaries by Nico Nassenstein

“…The development of the Bantu languages Kinyarwanda and Kirundi is entangled within the colonial histories of Rwanda and Burundi, first under German and then Belgian rule. …”
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