Final version. This paper provides proposals for the internal reconstruction of Bena-Yungur [Glottocode: bena1260]. The present-day three-tone system of Bena-Yungur with an opposition between H, M and L must result from a relatively recent process of tonogenesis in...
download According to the existing linguistic atlases, such as Blench (2019) and Eberhard et al. (2020), the language spoken in the Nigerian town of Lau is called Laka [ISO 639-3: lak] and belongs to the Mbumic family of the Adamawa pool within the Niger-Congo...
Download We begin by presenting a concise grammatical overview of Bena-Yungur in Section 2. Section 3 concentrates on the tone rules of the language, viz. tone spread (3.1), tone absorption (3.2) and floating tone attachment (3.3). The joint application of these...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of the gender system of Ɓə́ná-Yungur (glottocode: bena1260), distinguishing noun classes proper, defined as agreement classes, from morphological classes, defined in terms of number marking on nouns. The gender system...
