A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary

Despite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Scholars have identified four common noun stems for 'oil palm', i.e. *-bida (cl....

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Autor principal:	Koen Bostoen
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2005
Materias:	Proto-bantu oil palm reconstruction Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:28b1dc07f051445697deddcbdc06db192021-11-19T03:53:11ZA diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary10.32473/sal.v34i2.1073280039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/28b1dc07f051445697deddcbdc06db192005-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107328https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XDespite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Scholars have identified four common noun stems for 'oil palm', i.e. -bida (cl. 5/6, 7/8), o_bd (cl. 5/6), -gadi (cl. 9/10), and *-tende (el. 3/4) but determined the stems' geographic distributions within the Bantu domain to be insufficiently widespread to reflect a Proto-Bantu origin. From the wider perspective of Niger-Congo, certain of these nouns undoubtedly reconstruct to a level higher than Narrow Bantu. This paper presents an onomasiological approach to the earliest Bantu 'oil palm' vocabulary, offering a diachronic semantic analysis of the main noun stems, and an evaluation of the historical implications of their current-day distribution, both with respect to each other and in the light of the available Niger-Congo data.Koen BostoenLibraryPress@UFarticleProto-bantuoil palmreconstructionPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 34, Iss 2 (2005)
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description	Despite its ancient and long-lasting importance to sub-Saharan African economies, there has been no systematic attempt to reconstruct Proto-Bantu vocabulary referring to the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Scholars have identified four common noun stems for 'oil palm', i.e. -bida (cl. 5/6, 7/8), o_bd (cl. 5/6), -gadi (cl. 9/10), and *-tende (el. 3/4) but determined the stems' geographic distributions within the Bantu domain to be insufficiently widespread to reflect a Proto-Bantu origin. From the wider perspective of Niger-Congo, certain of these nouns undoubtedly reconstruct to a level higher than Narrow Bantu. This paper presents an onomasiological approach to the earliest Bantu 'oil palm' vocabulary, offering a diachronic semantic analysis of the main noun stems, and an evaluation of the historical implications of their current-day distribution, both with respect to each other and in the light of the available Niger-Congo data.
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title_short	A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary
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A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary

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