Jean-Pierre Donzo

Datos Biográficos

ID5990484
NOMBREJean-Pierre Donzo
NOMBRESJean-Pierre
APELLIDODonzo
FIRMADONZO J
AFILIACIONESUniversité Libre de Bruxelles
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS2
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR2
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34)

    Open AccessLorenzo Maselli, Véronique Delvaux et al.ARTICLEStudies in African Linguistics2024

    The present contribution bears on the documentation and description of a few unusual sounds, i.e. double labial-velar articulations, in a number of Bantu zone C varieties belonging to the so-called “Sakata cluster” in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These phonemes, often considered typical of a linguistic area known as the “Macro-Sudan Belt”, are considerably more common in southern Central Africa than previously thought. The…

  • Bantu-Ubangi language contact and the origin of labial-velar stops in Lingombe (Bantu, C41, DRC)

    Koen Bostoen, Jean-Pierre DonzoARTICLEDiachronica2013

    We examine the origin of labial-velar stops in Lingombe, a language from the northern Bantu borderland. Labial-velar stops are uncommon in Bantu. It is generally believed that they were acquired through contact with neighbouring non-Bantu speakers, in casu Ubangi languages. We show that the introduction of labial-velar stops in Lingombe is indeed a contact-induced change, but one which could not happen through superficial contact. It involved adv…