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Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond

Sebastian Dom (UGent)
(2018)
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  • KONGOKING (Political centralization, economic integration and language evolution in Central Africa: An interdisciplinary approach to the early history of the Kongo kingdom)
Abstract
This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation and tense/aspect, from a comparative and diachronic perspective. With respect to derivation, the aim of the PhD is to relate a number of verbal affixes, which are found throughout Bantu, to the grammatical category of “middle voice”. With respect to tense/aspect, one aim of the PhD is to present a first large-scale comparative overview of the most common tense/aspect constructions in the Kikongo Language Cluster from which i) Proto-Bantu retentions and ii) innovations from different stages in time can be identified. The isoglosses of the most common tense/aspect constructions can be confronted with the isoglosses of lexically-based phylogenetic subgroups, where both similarities and mismatches between the two provide relevant information about language history. A second aim of the study is to describe the diachrony of tense/aspect constructions and paradigms on the basis of different methods, such as the Comparative Method and/or Diachronic Corpus Linguistics.
Keywords
Bantu, Kikongo, Kikongo Language Cluster, verbal derivation, middle voice, tense/aspect, Comparative Method, Diachronic Corpus Linguistics

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Dom, Sebastian. Bantu Verbal Derivation and Tense/Aspect from a Historical-Comparative Perspective : The Kikongo Language Cluster and Beyond. Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, 2018.
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Dom, S. (2018). Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond. Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent, Belgium.
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Dom, Sebastian. 2018. “Bantu Verbal Derivation and Tense/Aspect from a Historical-Comparative Perspective : The Kikongo Language Cluster and Beyond.” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
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Dom, Sebastian. 2018. “Bantu Verbal Derivation and Tense/Aspect from a Historical-Comparative Perspective : The Kikongo Language Cluster and Beyond.” Ghent, Belgium: Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
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Dom S. Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond. [Ghent, Belgium]: Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy; 2018.
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S. Dom, “Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond,” Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent, Belgium, 2018.
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  abstract     = {{This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation and tense/aspect, from a comparative and diachronic perspective. With respect to derivation, the aim of the PhD is to relate a number of verbal affixes, which are found throughout Bantu, to the grammatical category of “middle voice”. With respect to tense/aspect, one aim of the PhD is to present a first large-scale comparative overview of the most common tense/aspect constructions in the Kikongo Language Cluster from which i) Proto-Bantu retentions and ii) innovations from different stages in time can be identified. The isoglosses of the most common tense/aspect constructions can be confronted with the isoglosses of lexically-based phylogenetic subgroups, where both similarities and mismatches between the two provide relevant information about language history. A second aim of the study is to describe the diachrony of tense/aspect constructions and paradigms on the basis of different methods, such as the Comparative Method and/or Diachronic Corpus Linguistics.}},
  author       = {{Dom, Sebastian}},
  keywords     = {{Bantu,Kikongo,Kikongo Language Cluster,verbal derivation,middle voice,tense/aspect,Comparative Method,Diachronic Corpus Linguistics}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{XVIII, 294}},
  publisher    = {{Ghent University. Faculty of Arts and Philosophy}},
  school       = {{Ghent University}},
  title        = {{Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective : the Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}