Reconstructing morpheme order in Bantu
The case of causativization and applicativization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20345109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Good (0000-0001-8679-4654, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-57 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diachronica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/dia.22.1.02goo |
| OpenAlex | W1976255375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
The morphological ordering relationships among a set of valence-changing suffixes found throughout the Bantu family have been of theoretical interest in a number of synchronic studies of the daughter languages. However, few attempts have yet been made to reconstruct the principles governing their ordering in the parent language. Based on a survey of over thirty Bantu languages, this paper proposes a reconstruction wherein the order of suffixes marking causativization and applicativization was fixed in Proto-Bantu. This reconstruction runs counter to approaches to morphosyntax where semantic scope is taken to determine the order of morphemes but is consistent with templatic approaches to morpheme ordering in the Bantu family
Bantu languages · Linguistics · Morpheme · Word order · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |