Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective

Bantu languages in eastern and southern Africa possess nominal suffixes which serve to express locative relations or derive nominal stems. As these grammemes are final to their noun hosts, they are markedly distinct from canonic prefix morphology in Bantu nouns. Moreover, nominal syntagms are head-i...

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Autor principal:	Tom Güldemann
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1999
Materias:	Bantu locative suffix nominals diachrony Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:080c1ec624934c18916dbf7f9be057fc2021-11-19T03:53:46ZHead-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective10.32473/sal.v28i1.1073780039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/080c1ec624934c18916dbf7f9be057fc1999-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107378https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XBantu languages in eastern and southern Africa possess nominal suffixes which serve to express locative relations or derive nominal stems. As these grammemes are final to their noun hosts, they are markedly distinct from canonic prefix morphology in Bantu nouns. Moreover, nominal syntagms are head-initial and canonic grammaticalization in this domain can be expected to yield prefixes. The elements under discussion are suffixes, yet they developed in Bantu from inherited nominal lexemes. Thus, they are unusual from a morphotactic viewpoint and cannot easily be accounted for by exclusively language-internal developments. For this reason, it is plausible to investigate the hypothesis that the nominal suffixes emerged due to interference from languages having a different grammatical structure. For this purpose, a sample of non-Bantu languages from the relevant geographic area in Africa is established and analyzed in order to test whether there are languages or entire groups with head-final and suffixing patterns that could have influenced the process of suffix emergence in Bantu.Tom GüldemannLibraryPress@UFarticleBantulocative suffixnominalsdiachronyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 1 (1999)
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topic	Bantu locative suffix nominals diachrony Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Bantu locative suffix nominals diachrony Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Tom Güldemann Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective
description	Bantu languages in eastern and southern Africa possess nominal suffixes which serve to express locative relations or derive nominal stems. As these grammemes are final to their noun hosts, they are markedly distinct from canonic prefix morphology in Bantu nouns. Moreover, nominal syntagms are head-initial and canonic grammaticalization in this domain can be expected to yield prefixes. The elements under discussion are suffixes, yet they developed in Bantu from inherited nominal lexemes. Thus, they are unusual from a morphotactic viewpoint and cannot easily be accounted for by exclusively language-internal developments. For this reason, it is plausible to investigate the hypothesis that the nominal suffixes emerged due to interference from languages having a different grammatical structure. For this purpose, a sample of non-Bantu languages from the relevant geographic area in Africa is established and analyzed in order to test whether there are languages or entire groups with head-final and suffixing patterns that could have influenced the process of suffix emergence in Bantu.
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title	Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective
title_short	Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective
title_full	Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective
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Head-initial meets head-final nominal suffixes in eastern a southern Bantu from a historical perspective

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