Derek Nurse
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Derek Nurse |
| NOMBRES | Derek |
| APELLIDO | Nurse |
| FIRMA | NURSE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Bajuni – A Language Peninsula
The article deals with the northern Swahili dialect Bajuni. It is viewed as a language peninsula rather than island, attached to neighbouring and related dialects to the south but jutting north into Somali-speaking areas. It is currently severely endangered, having been largely replaced by Somali in Somalia, and Swahili in Kenya during the late twentieth century, so it is regarded essentially as a historical language peninsula. It is treated unde…
Temi – A Survivor in Difficult Sea
This article treats the Bantu language Temi, sometimes called Gitemi or Sonjo. The Temi language island is 125 kilometres from the nearest Bantu community and completely surrounded by historically hostile Maasai communities. As far as we know, Maasai were preceded by other non-Bantu communities for most of the last millennium. Community and language are both in good shape: in 1928 the population was 2,500, at Tanzanian independence in the 1960s i…
Miini – A Lonely Bantu Outpost in the Vast North
The article deals with Miini, spoken in the town of Brava. Some regard it as a northern Swahili dialect, others view it as a closely related language. The town and its speech form have existed for probably a millennium. During most of that period it flourished, surrounded by a community or communities speaking southern Somali dialects. When the Somali central government collapsed in 1991 it was invaded and occupied by the Habr Gidir clan, part of…
The Bantu Languages
Aspect, tense and mood
Chapter 7 is an overview of the expression of aspect, tense and mood. It describes the formal means of expressing aspect and tense (aspect is considered more fundamental than tense) and gives a quantified overview of the aspectual and temporal categories encountered in the Bantu area. The account is based on an analysis of over 200 languages from across the entire Bantu area. The section on mood is the first overview of its kind, and therefore le…
Bantu Languages
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current estimates there are between 250 and 600 of them, as yet neither adequately classified nor fully described. Professor Nurse’s account is based on data from more than …
Focus in Bantu
Although verb forms encoding focus were recorded in various Bantu languages during the twentieth century it was not until the late 1970's that they became the centre of serious attention, starting with the work of Hyman and Watters. In the last decade this attention has grown. While focus can be expressed variously, this paper concentrates largely on its morphological, partly on its tonal expression. On the basis of morphological and tonal behavi…
Stratigraphy and prehistory
"Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History
Roland Oliver, Thomas Spear, Kairn Klieman, Jan Vansina, Scott MacEachern, David Schoenbrun, James Denbow, Yvonne Bastin, H. M. Batibo, Bernd Heine, Michael Mann, Derek Nurse, Simiyu Wandibba, Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2001), pp. 43-81
African Languages
List of maps Notes on contributors 1. Introduction Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse 2. Niger-Congo Kay Williamson and Roger Blench 3. Nilo-Saharan Lionel M. Bender 4. Afroasiatic Richard J. Hayward 5. Khoisan Tom Guldemann and Rainer Vossen 6. Phonology G. N. Clements 7. Morphology Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 8. Syntax John R. Watters 9. Typology Denis Creissels 10. Comparative linguistics Paul Newman 11. Language and history Christopher Ehret 12. Language a…
Chronogenetic staging of tense in Ruhaya
The paradigm of tense and aspect contrasts in Ruhaya, an eastern Bantu language, shows considerable regularity, indication of an ordered system of contrasts. The examination of what appear to be anomalies in the system of contrasts leads to a refinement in the analysis: to the recognition of a tense system that is organised in two stages, based on a model proposed by Gustave Guillaume. Aspectual contrasts are prioritized at the first stage, tense…
The Contributions of Linguistics to the Study of History in Africa
The work of historical and comparative linguists has long interested African historians. By classifying languages into families, linguists provide models of their historical development that may point to historical events and processes that occurred among peoples speaking those languages. Once classified, linguists can then reconstruct earlier forms of present languages, thus providing direct evidence of words, their meanings and historical influ…
Social Issues in Historical Linguistics in Africa
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
The Nature and Size of Linguistic Contact Possible in Three Centuries
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994)
The World of the Swahili
Historical’ classifications of the Bantu languages
Une revue des classifications existantes des langues bantoues permet a l'A. de mettre en lumiere les questions qui se posent a propos des bases de ces classifications. Il souligne la necessite d'approches nouvelles pour aborder l'histoire du developpement des langues bantoues, approches qui ne soient pas basees sur les statistiques lexicales
The History of Sonjo and Engaruka
Chifundi and Vumba
Maasai Farmers
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 177-187
A Classified Vocabulary of the Pare Language
The Swahili
Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary
Sonjo
The Swahili
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."— International Journal of African Historical Studies
The Contributions of Linguistics to the Study of History in Africa
The work of historical and comparative linguists has long interested African historians. By classifying languages into families, linguists provide models of their historical development that may point to historical events and processes that occurred among peoples speaking those languages. Once classified, linguists can then reconstruct earlier forms of present languages, thus providing direct evidence of words, their meanings and historical influ…
A Linguistic Reconsideration of Swahili Origins
Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages. By contrast, three Bantu languages in northeastern Kenya (the northern Swahili dialects, Pokomo, Elwana) have acquired such a series, which thus merits explanation. There are three mechanisms involved: sounds along with loan vocabulary, (b) a simple phonologic…
The History of Sonjo and Engaruka
Maasai Farmers
History From Linguistics
It is the purpose of this article to investigate certain aspects of the Pokomo (P) language, and thereby to present a more detailed picture of Pokomo history than is currently available. Pokomo is an ideal laboratory for comparative linguistics. Whereas much as been written about most adjacent peoples, such as Orma, Somali, Mijikenda (MK), and Swahili, little has been said on the Pokomo, or their neighbors, the Dahalo; virtually no archeological …
A Classified Vocabulary of the Pare Language
Description of Sample Bantu Languages of Tanzania. African Languages/Langues Africaines
Segeju and Daisũ
The history of “the” Segeju has been the subject of lengthy published debate. The discussion has been based almost entirely on interpretation of oral traditions as recounted by Segeju informants to various scholars. A newcomer with a linguistic bias is struck by certain aspects of much of this debate: a] the linguistic implausibility apparently involved. Baker, for example, recording fairly literally what he was told, started the history of “the”…
History From Linguistics
It is the purpose of this article to investigate certain aspects of the Pokomo (P) language, and thereby to present a more detailed picture of Pokomo history than is currently available. Pokomo is an ideal laboratory for comparative linguistics. Whereas much as been written about most adjacent peoples, such as Orma, Somali, Mijikenda (MK), and Swahili, little has been said on the Pokomo, or their neighbors, the Dahalo; virtually no archeological …
A Linguistic Reconsideration of Swahili Origins
The Swahili
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."— International Journal of African Historical Studies
Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages. By contrast, three Bantu languages in northeastern Kenya (the northern Swahili dialects, Pokomo, Elwana) have acquired such a series, which thus merits explanation. There are three mechanisms involved: sounds along with loan vocabulary, (b) a simple phonologic…
The Swahili
Maps Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1 Swahili and Their History 2 The African Background of Swahili 3 The Emergence of the Swahili-Speaking Peoples 4 Early Swahili Society, 800-1100 5 Rise of the Swahili Town-States, 1100-1500 Appendices Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
The Swahili
Alternative historical sources for Swahili vocabulary
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 177-187
A Classified Vocabulary of the Pare Language
The Swahili
Chifundi and Vumba
Maasai Farmers
The History of Sonjo and Engaruka
The Nature and Size of Linguistic Contact Possible in Three Centuries
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics (1994)
The World of the Swahili
Historical’ classifications of the Bantu languages
Une revue des classifications existantes des langues bantoues permet a l'A. de mettre en lumiere les questions qui se posent a propos des bases de ces classifications. Il souligne la necessite d'approches nouvelles pour aborder l'histoire du developpement des langues bantoues, approches qui ne soient pas basees sur les statistiques lexicales
Social Issues in Historical Linguistics in Africa
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Social Issues in Historical Linguistics (1995)
The Contributions of Linguistics to the Study of History in Africa
The work of historical and comparative linguists has long interested African historians. By classifying languages into families, linguists provide models of their historical development that may point to historical events and processes that occurred among peoples speaking those languages. Once classified, linguists can then reconstruct earlier forms of present languages, thus providing direct evidence of words, their meanings and historical influ…
Chronogenetic staging of tense in Ruhaya
The paradigm of tense and aspect contrasts in Ruhaya, an eastern Bantu language, shows considerable regularity, indication of an ordered system of contrasts. The examination of what appear to be anomalies in the system of contrasts leads to a refinement in the analysis: to the recognition of a tense system that is organised in two stages, based on a model proposed by Gustave Guillaume. Aspectual contrasts are prioritized at the first stage, tense…
"Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History
Roland Oliver, Thomas Spear, Kairn Klieman, Jan Vansina, Scott MacEachern, David Schoenbrun, James Denbow, Yvonne Bastin, H. M. Batibo, Bernd Heine, Michael Mann, Derek Nurse, Simiyu Wandibba, Comments on Christopher Ehret, "Bantu History: Re-Envisioning the Evidence of Language", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2001), pp. 43-81
African Languages
List of maps Notes on contributors 1. Introduction Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse 2. Niger-Congo Kay Williamson and Roger Blench 3. Nilo-Saharan Lionel M. Bender 4. Afroasiatic Richard J. Hayward 5. Khoisan Tom Guldemann and Rainer Vossen 6. Phonology G. N. Clements 7. Morphology Gerrit J. Dimmendaal 8. Syntax John R. Watters 9. Typology Denis Creissels 10. Comparative linguistics Paul Newman 11. Language and history Christopher Ehret 12. Language a…
Stratigraphy and prehistory
Focus in Bantu
Although verb forms encoding focus were recorded in various Bantu languages during the twentieth century it was not until the late 1970's that they became the centre of serious attention, starting with the work of Hyman and Watters. In the last decade this attention has grown. While focus can be expressed variously, this paper concentrates largely on its morphological, partly on its tonal expression. On the basis of morphological and tonal behavi…
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