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Author(s): Thera Marie Crane, Larry M. Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu S.J.
ISBN(s): 9780520098862, 0520098862
Edition: 1
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 0520098862 
ISBN 13: 9780520098862
Author: Thera Marie Crane, Larry M Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu SJ

This publication presents the first documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is the product of extensive study by the authors and participants in field methods and group study courses at the University of California, Berkeley, and consists of ten chapters covering the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes. Also included are three texts and a lexicon of over 1100 entries, including a number of fish species. Prior to this work, Nzadi had not even been mentioned in the literature, and at this time still has no entry as a language or dialect in the Ethnologue. Of particular interest in the study of Nzadi is its considerable grammatical simplification, resulting in structures quite different from those of canonical Bantu languages. Although Nzadi has lost most of the inherited agglutinative morphology, there are still recognizable class prefixes on nouns and a reflex of noun class agreement in genitive constructions. Other areas of particular interest are human/number agreement, tense-aspect-mood marking, non-subject relative clause constructions, and WH question formation. This succinct, but comprehensive grammar provides broad coverage of the phonological, grammatical and semantic properties that will be of potential interest not only to Bantuists, Africanists and those interested in this area of the DRC, but also to typologists, general linguists, and students of linguistics.

A Grammar of Nzadi B865 A Bantu language of Democratic Republic of Congo 1st Table of contents:

  • The Sound System
    Detailed analysis of Nzadi’s segmental phonology, including vowel and consonant systems, syllable structure, and phonotactics.

  • Tone
    Examination of the tone system, contrasting high and low tones, and the occurrence of downsteps and contour tones.

  • The Noun
    Study of noun classes, including prefixless nouns and those with vowel or nasal prefixes, reflecting Proto-Bantu noun class prefixes.

  • Pronouns
    Analysis of personal pronouns, including distinctions in person, number, and case.

  • Verbal Morphology
    Exploration of verb roots, derivational affixes, and inflectional morphology, including tense, aspect, and mood markers.

  • Syntax
    Investigation of sentence structure, including word order, clause types, and syntactic relations.

  • Semantics
    Discussion of meaning, including argument structure, quantification, and modality.

  • Texts
    Presentation of three texts in Nzadi, providing contextual examples of the language in use.

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