Cilungu Phonology (Stanford Monographs in African Languages)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf; CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language and Information
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781575865508
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Bantu languages; Language; African Languages (See Also Swahili); Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Lungu dialect; Morphology; Phonology
Description: "Only a handful of Bantu languages have been completely described phonologically. This volume brings to the forefront Cilungu, spoken in the northeastern part of Zambia's Northern Province and on the southeast shore of Lake Rukwa in Tanzania. Along with a focus on Cilungu phonology, this book also details much of its morphology. The nominal morphology includes descriptions of locatives, diminutives, augmentatives, deverbal nouns, and copulatives. The verbal morphology is comparatively rich, having 26 single-word tense/aspects and over 30 compound ones."--book jacket.