Bantu Historical Linguistics

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Paperback
606 pages
15 Line Diagrams 16 Tables 18 Maps
Published: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN / EAN: 1575862042

Besides the issues of classification and internal sub-grouping, this volume treats historical and comparative aspects of many of the significant typological features for which Bantu is known: vowel height harmony, noun classes, elaborate tense-aspect sys