Vous pouvez télécharger le dictionnaire ici. Ce dictionnaire éton-français est en partie une version corrigée et élargie du lexique dans la thèse de doctorat de Mark Van de Velde A description of Eton, soutenue à l’université de Leuven (Belgique) en 2006. Il est aussi...
prefinal version Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages have extraordinary typological characteristics. Their word order patterns are extremely diverse and some of the attested patterns are crosslinguistically very rare, or even unique. The same diversity can be...
This chapter argues that Meeussen (1967)’s reconstruction of a Direct and an Indirect relative clause construction in Proto-Bantu is untenable, because there exists no scenario of morphosyntactic change that can lead from that reconstructed state of affairs to the...
Prefinal version This chapter provides a comparative analysis of the expression of attributive possession in the Bantu languages. As is typical for our current knowledge of the Bantu languages, the basics of the grammatical expression of attributive possession are...
Prefinal version This paper presents the Bantu Relative Agreement (BRA) cycle, a scenario of recurrent morphosyntactic change that involves the emergence of relativisers, which are subsequently integrated into the relative verb form, where they can ultimately replace...
Final version. Supplementary materials. Using a very large lexical database and generalized additive modelling, this paper reveals that labial-velar (LV) stops are marginal phonemes in many of the languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa that have them, and that the...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of the phenomenon commonly known as external possession in the Bantu languages. On the basis of comparative data, I argue for a prototype approach to the intricate problem of determining the conditions of use of such...
Prefinal version One of the quintessential typological properties of the Bantu languages is their pervasive system of noun classes and noun class agreement. This is undoubtedly the aspect of their grammatical structure that is most discussed in the literature, if only...
Kwakum (A91, ISO 639-3 kwu, glottocode kwak1266) is a cluster of Bantu language varieties spoken in the East Province of Cameroon. Ethnologue distinguishes four dialects: Baki, Betɛn, Til and Kwakum, which is the focus of this description. There is a high degree of...
Prefinal version. This paper provides an analysis of two relative clause constructions in the Gabonese Bantu language Orungu that are in complementary distribution. The choice between them is determined by the target of relativisation in a typologically interesting...
Prefinal version. The only formal characteristic that all restrictive relative clause constructions have in common in Eton is that the relativised noun is marked by means of a prefix í- ~ H- traditionally called the augment. Eton does not normally use a relative...
The Bantu equivalent of a genitive construction, a construction in which a nominal constituent modifies another one, is part of a family of constructions commonly called the connective construction. This paper analyses the family of Bantu connective constructions from...
Aspects of the grammar of proper names in the Gabonese Bantu language Orungu are described and tentatively explained, with special attention for agreement and definiteness marking. Proper names have a mixed agreement pattern that differs from that of the common nouns...
Eton (A70) is unusual in that it lacks an applicative affix. Benefactive and circumstantial participants can be added without marking, be it head marking (an applicative suffix) or dependent marking (a preposition). This paper argues that the applicative suffix was...
Download / télécharger Un très grand nombre de langues bantoues ont un marqueur de l’allocutif pluriel (AP) qui exprime que le locuteur s’adresse à plus d’un allocutaire et/ou qui sert de marque de politesse. Ce marqueur est un suffixe ou un enclitique qui s’attache...
