Sound change, misanalysis, and analogy in the Bantu causative

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-90

  Hyman, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751093934     PISSN: 01676164     EISSN: 16133811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jall.2003.004     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Ashton, E.O. and E.M.K. Mulira and E.G.M. Ndawula (1954). A Luganda Grammar. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
2. Bastin, Yvonne (1983). La finale -IDE et l'imbrication en bantou. Annales (Série IN-8, Sciences Humaines 114). Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
3. Bastin, Yvonne (1986). Les suffixes causatifs dans les langues bantoues. In Africana Linguistica X, 55-145. Annales (Série IN-8, Sciences Humaines, 121). Tervuren: Musée Royale de l'Afrique Centrale.
4. Benua, Laura (1995). Identity effects in morphological truncation. In Papers in Optimality Theory, Jill N. Beckman, Suzanne Urbanczyk and L. Walsh-Dickey (eds.). Amherst: GLSA.
5. Bourquin, Walther (1955). Notes on the "close vowels" in Bantu. African Studies 14: 49-62.
6. Byarushengo, Ernest R. (1975). An examination of the segmental phonology of Haya. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Dar es Salaam.
7. - (1977). Word list. In Haya grammatical structure. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 6, Ernest R. Byarushengo, Alessandro Duranti and Larry M. Hyman (eds), 205-213. Los Angeles: University of Southern California.
8. Clements, George N. (1986). Compensatory lengthening and consonant gemination in Luganda. In Studies in Compensatory Lengthening, Leo Wetzels and Engin Sezer (eds.), 37-77. Dordrecht: Foris Publications.
9. Dalgish, Gerald M. (1977). Past tense formation in olu-Haya. African Languages 3: 78-91.
10. Endemann, Karl (1900). Zur Erklärung einer eigenthümlichen Verbalform im Konde. Mitteilungen des Orientalische Seminars zu Berlin 3: 93-95.
11. Feiberg, Knut (1996). Nyakyusa-English-Swahili and English-Nyakyusa Dictionary. Cape Town: Creda Press.
12. Goldsmith, John (1988). Paper on Haya past tense formation read at U.C. Berkeley.
13. Good, Jeffrey (2001). Causativization and applicativization in Bantu: Evidence for an evolutionary approach to morpheme ordering restrictions. Ms. University of California, Berkeley.
14. Halemba, Andrej (1994). Mambwe-English Dictionary. Ndola, Zambia: Mission Press.
15. Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur (2001). Theoretical and typological issues in consonant harmony. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
16. Harries, Lyndon (1950). A Grammar of Mwera. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. Herbert, Robert K. (1976). A reanalysis of Luganda vowels. Afrika und Übersee 59: 113-124.
17. Hombert, Jean-Marie and Larry M. Hyman (eds.) (1999). Bantu Historical Linguistics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
18. Hulstaert, Gustaaf (1965). Grammaire du Linverted c signminverted c signnginverted c sign IIe Partie, Morphologie. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
19. Hyman, Larry M. (1972). Nasals and nasalization in Kwa. Studies in African Linguistics 3: 167-205.
20. - (1994). Cyclic phonology and morphology in Cibemba. In Perspectives in Phonology, Jennifer Cole and Charles W. Kisseberth (eds.), 81-112. Stanford: CSLI
21. - (1995). Minimality and the prosodic morphology of Cibemba imbrication. Journal of African Languages & Linguistics 16: 3-39.
22. - (1997). La morphologie et la 'fricativation' diachronique en bantou. Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, Grammaticalisation et reconstruction. Tome V, 163-175.
23. - (1999). The historical interpretation of Bantu vowel harmony In Bantu historical linguistics: Theoretical and empirical perspectives, Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry M. Hyman (eds.) (1999), 235-295. Stanford: SCLI.
24. Hyman, Larry M. and Francis X. Katamba (1990). Final vowel shortening in Luganda. Studies in African Linguistics 21: 1-59.
25. - (1999). The syllable in Luganda phonology and morphology. In The Syllable: Views and Facts, Harry van der Hulst and Nancy A. Ritter (eds.), 349-416. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
26. Labroussi, Catherine (1998a). Vowel systems and spirantization in Southern Tanzania. In Bantu Historical Linguistics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry M. Hyman (eds.), 335-377. Stanford:SCLI.
27. - (1998b). Le couloir des lacs: Contribution linguistique à l'histoire des populations du sudouest de la Tanzanie. Doctoral dissertation. Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris.
28. Maddieson, Ian (1984). Patterns of Sounds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
29. Maganga, Clement and Thilo C. Schadeberg (1992). Kinyamwezi: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
30. Meinhof, Carl (1932). Introduction to the phonology of the Bantu languages [translated by Nicolaas J. van Warmelo (ed.)]. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
31. Meeussen, A.E. (1959). Essai de grammaire rundi. Tervuren: Musée Royal du Congo Belge.
32. - (1967). Bantu grammatical reconstructions. Annales (Série 8, Sciences Humaines 61): 81-121. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.
33. Mpiranya, Fidèle (1997). Spirantisation et fusion vocalique en Bantu: Essai d'interprétation fonctionnelle. Linguistique Africaine 18: 51-77.
34. Ngunga, Armindo (2000). Lexical Phonology and Morphology of Ciyao. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
35. Odden, David (1996). The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatuumbi. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
36. Orgun, Orhan (1996). Sign-based phonology and morphology, with special attention to optimality theory. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
37. Polak-Bynon, Louise (1975). A Shi Grammar: Surface Structures and Generative Phonology of a Bantu Language. Tervuren: Musée Royale de l'Afrique Centrale.
38. Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1976). The Duke of York gambit. Journal of Linguistics 12: 83-102
39. Rugemalira, Josephat M. (1993). Runyambo verb extensions and constraints on predicate structure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
40. Schadeberg, Thilo C. (1995). Spirantization and the 7-to-5 vowel merger in Bantu. In Sound change, Marc Domincy and Didier Demolin (eds), Belgian Journal of Linguistics 9: 73-84.
41. Schumann, C. (1899). Grundriss einer Grammatik der Kondesprache. Mitteilungen des Orientalische Seminars zu Berlin 2 (3): 1-86.
42. Snoxall, R. A. (ed.) (1967). Luganda-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
43. Stappers, Leo J. (1971). Esquisse de la langue lengola. Africana Linguistica V, 255-307.
44. Stewart, John M. (1989). Fortis-lenis and vowel length in proto-Bantu. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 11:45-88.
45. Stewart, John M. (1999). Nasal vowel creation without nasal consonant deletion and the eventual loss of nasal vowels thus created: The pre-Bantu case. In Bantu Historical Linguistics: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, Jean-Marie Hombert and Larry M. Hyman (eds.), 207-233. Stanford: SCLI.
46. Stimimann, Hans (1983). Praktische Grammatik der Pangwa-Sprache (SW-Tanzania). Freiburg: Universitätsverlag Freiburg, Switzerland.
47. Taylor, Charles (1959). A Simplified Runyankore-Rukiga-English and English-Runyankore-Rukiga Dictionary. Kampala: The Eagle Press.
48. Trithart, Mary Lee (1977). Causatives and instrumentals. In Haya Grammatical Structure, Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 6. Ernest R. Byarushengo, Alessandro Duranti and Larry M. Hyman (eds.), 73-98. Los Angeles: University of Southern California.
49. Tucker, Archibald N. (1962). The syllable in Luganda: A prosodic approach. Journal of African Languages 1: 122-166.
50. Vennemann, Theo (1972). Rule inversion. Lingua 29: 209-242.
51. Zoll, Cheryl (1995). Consonant Mutation in Bantu. Linguistic Inquiry 26: 536-545.