Nancy C Kula
Biographic Data
| ID | 176643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy C Kula |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kula |
| SIGNATURE | KULA N C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8323-2573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
This volume provides a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and one of the world’s biggest language groups, comprising around 500 languages. The family includes major languages with large numbers of speakers, such as Zulu, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, the most widely spoken and taught African lan…
Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
The multilingual university: Language ideology, hidden policies and language practices in Malawian universities
Globalisation is increasingly affecting universities worldwide. In African contexts, language policies exhibit an inheritance situation in which countries continue to implement policies which favour colonial languages in education. This paper investigates the Malawian higher education context and the ways in which staff engage with multilingualism. It examines the implementation of language policies by staff in their classrooms and explores the a…
Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: Tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Emerging principles for researching multilingually in linguistic ethnography: Reflections from Botswana, Tanzania, the UK and Zambia
This paper discusses collaborative ethnographic work investigating multilingualism within education in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia. The paper takes a reflective perspective on how research is conducted and the role that multilingualism and collaboration can play in the research process itself. As a team of thirteen individuals, working across four countries, we bring a range of multilingual repertoires to the project. In this paper we discuss …
Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: The case of Setswana
Within the context of microvariation in Bantu, three processes are examined in Setswana – object marking, inversion constructions and diminutive marking. 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. Using a comparative-parametric approach Set…
Developing an Areal View of Intonation in Eastern Bantu
This paper is an initial attempt at trying to synthesise the state-of-art in the study on intonation in Bantu languages. The goal is to specifically investigate what central features emerge in the comparison of four Bantu languages to allow us to formulate a hypothesis on areal features and variation in Eastern Bantu languages. The base language used for the comparison is Bemba, for which details of local intonational effects such as final loweri…
Phrasal phonology in Copperbelt Bemba
Copperbelt Bemba exhibits several rightward spreading tonal processes which are sensitive to prosodic phrase structure. The rightmost H tone in a word will undergo unbounded spreading if the word is final in a phonological phrase (φ). In an intonational phrase consisting of several single-word φ's, the rightmost H in the first word will spread through all following toneless φ's. From a rule-based perspective, this can only be accounted for by pos…
Bemba
Bemba (also called Cibemba or Icibemba; ISO 639-3 codebem) is a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Central Narrow Bantu branch (Zone M in Guthrie's 1948, 1967-71 classification). Bemba is spoken in Zambia (mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt provinces) and the Southern Democratic Republic of Congo by approximately 3.3 million speakers (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013). Our data are based on Bemba spoken in Zambia
Phillip Backley (2011). An introduction to Element Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. xiv+210
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Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
The paper presents a detailed discussion of morphosyntactic variation in object marking in Bantu. Building on previous work (Marten et al., 2007), the paper investigates variation in object marking in 16 Bantu languages with respect to six parameters: the co-occurrence of object markers and lexical objects, the obligatoriness of object markers with specific classes of objects, the presence of locative object markers, multiple object markers, obje…
Jan Kooij (1940–2004)
Derived environment effects: A representational approach
Meanings of money: National identity and the semantics of currency in Zambia and Tanzania
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Effects of phonological phrasing on syntactic structure
Bantu languages are renowned as tone languages that utilize this suprasegmental feature not only on the lexical level to distinguish lexical items, but also on the grammatical level to distinguish clause types. This article investigates one such use of grammatical tone in relative clauses in Bemba where a low tone can be used in place of a segmental relative marker. This low tone relative morpheme functions in conjunction with phrase boundary ton…
Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba relatives
Tone as a distinctive feature used to differentiate not only words but also clause types, is a characteristic feature of Bantu languages. In this paper we show that Bemba relatives can be marked with a low tone in place of a segmental relative marker. This low tone strategy of relativization, which imposes a restrictive reading of relatives, manifests a specific phonological phrasing that can be differentiated from that of non-restrictives. The p…
No initial empty CV in clusterless languages
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The phonology–morphology interface: Consonant mutations in Bemba
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On the Representation of NC Clusters in Bemba
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Meanings of money: National identity and the semantics of currency in Zambia and Tanzania
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: Tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
The paper presents a detailed discussion of morphosyntactic variation in object marking in Bantu. Building on previous work (Marten et al., 2007), the paper investigates variation in object marking in 16 Bantu languages with respect to six parameters: the co-occurrence of object markers and lexical objects, the obligatoriness of object markers with specific classes of objects, the presence of locative object markers, multiple object markers, obje…
Emerging principles for researching multilingually in linguistic ethnography: Reflections from Botswana, Tanzania, the UK and Zambia
This paper discusses collaborative ethnographic work investigating multilingualism within education in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia. The paper takes a reflective perspective on how research is conducted and the role that multilingualism and collaboration can play in the research process itself. As a team of thirteen individuals, working across four countries, we bring a range of multilingual repertoires to the project. In this paper we discuss …
Bemba
Bemba (also called Cibemba or Icibemba; ISO 639-3 codebem) is a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Central Narrow Bantu branch (Zone M in Guthrie's 1948, 1967-71 classification). Bemba is spoken in Zambia (mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt provinces) and the Southern Democratic Republic of Congo by approximately 3.3 million speakers (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013). Our data are based on Bemba spoken in Zambia
Derived environment effects: A representational approach
The multilingual university: Language ideology, hidden policies and language practices in Malawian universities
Globalisation is increasingly affecting universities worldwide. In African contexts, language policies exhibit an inheritance situation in which countries continue to implement policies which favour colonial languages in education. This paper investigates the Malawian higher education context and the ways in which staff engage with multilingualism. It examines the implementation of language policies by staff in their classrooms and explores the a…
On the Representation of NC Clusters in Bemba
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The phonology–morphology interface: Consonant mutations in Bemba
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Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba relatives
Tone as a distinctive feature used to differentiate not only words but also clause types, is a characteristic feature of Bantu languages. In this paper we show that Bemba relatives can be marked with a low tone in place of a segmental relative marker. This low tone strategy of relativization, which imposes a restrictive reading of relatives, manifests a specific phonological phrasing that can be differentiated from that of non-restrictives. The p…
No initial empty CV in clusterless languages
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Effects of phonological phrasing on syntactic structure
Bantu languages are renowned as tone languages that utilize this suprasegmental feature not only on the lexical level to distinguish lexical items, but also on the grammatical level to distinguish clause types. This article investigates one such use of grammatical tone in relative clauses in Bemba where a low tone can be used in place of a segmental relative marker. This low tone relative morpheme functions in conjunction with phrase boundary ton…
Jan Kooij (1940–2004)
Derived environment effects: A representational approach
Meanings of money: National identity and the semantics of currency in Zambia and Tanzania
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Phillip Backley (2011). An introduction to Element Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pp. xiv+210
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu
The paper presents a detailed discussion of morphosyntactic variation in object marking in Bantu. Building on previous work (Marten et al., 2007), the paper investigates variation in object marking in 16 Bantu languages with respect to six parameters: the co-occurrence of object markers and lexical objects, the obligatoriness of object markers with specific classes of objects, the presence of locative object markers, multiple object markers, obje…
Phrasal phonology in Copperbelt Bemba
Copperbelt Bemba exhibits several rightward spreading tonal processes which are sensitive to prosodic phrase structure. The rightmost H tone in a word will undergo unbounded spreading if the word is final in a phonological phrase (φ). In an intonational phrase consisting of several single-word φ's, the rightmost H in the first word will spread through all following toneless φ's. From a rule-based perspective, this can only be accounted for by pos…
Bemba
Bemba (also called Cibemba or Icibemba; ISO 639-3 codebem) is a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Central Narrow Bantu branch (Zone M in Guthrie's 1948, 1967-71 classification). Bemba is spoken in Zambia (mainly in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt provinces) and the Southern Democratic Republic of Congo by approximately 3.3 million speakers (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2013). Our data are based on Bemba spoken in Zambia
Developing an Areal View of Intonation in Eastern Bantu
This paper is an initial attempt at trying to synthesise the state-of-art in the study on intonation in Bantu languages. The goal is to specifically investigate what central features emerge in the comparison of four Bantu languages to allow us to formulate a hypothesis on areal features and variation in Eastern Bantu languages. The base language used for the comparison is Bemba, for which details of local intonational effects such as final loweri…
Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: Tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt
Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Emerging principles for researching multilingually in linguistic ethnography: Reflections from Botswana, Tanzania, the UK and Zambia
This paper discusses collaborative ethnographic work investigating multilingualism within education in Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia. The paper takes a reflective perspective on how research is conducted and the role that multilingualism and collaboration can play in the research process itself. As a team of thirteen individuals, working across four countries, we bring a range of multilingual repertoires to the project. In this paper we discuss …
Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: The case of Setswana
Within the context of microvariation in Bantu, three processes are examined in Setswana – object marking, inversion constructions and diminutive marking. 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. Using a comparative-parametric approach Set…
The multilingual university: Language ideology, hidden policies and language practices in Malawian universities
Globalisation is increasingly affecting universities worldwide. In African contexts, language policies exhibit an inheritance situation in which countries continue to implement policies which favour colonial languages in education. This paper investigates the Malawian higher education context and the ways in which staff engage with multilingualism. It examines the implementation of language policies by staff in their classrooms and explores the a…
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
This volume provides a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and one of the world’s biggest language groups, comprising around 500 languages. The family includes major languages with large numbers of speakers, such as Zulu, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, the most widely spoken and taught African lan…
Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
Linguistics (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Bantu languages (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Phonology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)