A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

• Main Author: van der Wal, Jenneke
• Format: eBook
• Language: Bantu; English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022; Oxford University Press USA - OSO
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: African languages; Agree; agreement; Bantu languages; comparative morphosyntax; crosslinguistic variation; Grammar, syntax and morphology; Historical and comparative linguistics; information structure; Language and Linguistics; Language qualifiers; Linguistics; Niger-Congo languages; nominal licensing; object marking; Person; Structural systems (Grammar); subject marking; Topic

The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of morphosyntactic variation. Two core areas in which such variation is attested are subject and object agreement. The book explores...