The Bantu Languages
Edited by Derek Nurse, GERARD PHILIPPSON
Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Language Family Series
Description
Providing descriptive and typological information about the Bantu languages of southern Africa, this volume brings together a set of expert contributors and is divided into two parts: linguistics areas, including phonology, morphology, syntax and historical linguistics, and secondly, the many hundreds of Bantu languages themselves.
Author Bio
Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.
Name: The Bantu Languages (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Derek Nurse, GERARD PHILIPPSON. Providing descriptive and typological information about the Bantu languages of southern Africa, this volume brings together a set of expert contributors and is divided into two parts: linguistics areas, including phonology, morphology, syntax and...
Categories: Languages of Africa, General Language Reference, Language & Linguistics
