Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages

Abstract

Morphosyntactic Variation in East African Bantu Languages: Descriptive and Comparative Approaches, edited by Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Gastor Mapunda, and Lutz Marten, examines the diversity of morphosyntactic structures across Bantu languages spoken in East Africa. The volume brings together descriptive and comparative studies that investigate grammatical features of individual languages as well as specific morphosyntactic phenomena across selected groups of related languages. The contributions address a range of topics, including demonstratives, noun classes, grammatical agreement, locative expressions, multiple-object constructions, object marking, verb extensions, tense and aspect marking, and historical developments in grammatical structures. By exploring similarities and differences among related languages, the volume contributes to a deeper understanding of linguistic microvariation, language contact, language change, and the sociolinguistic complexity of East Africa. It provides valuable resources for research in African linguistics, comparative grammar, and linguistic typology.