Open AccessPapers from the workshop on Bantu relative clauses
Author(s) -
Laura J. Downing,
Annie Rialland,
Jean-Marc Beltzung,
Sophie Manus,
Cédric Patin,
Kristina Riedel
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.53.2010.388
Subject(s) - bantu languages , tone (literature) , linguistics , variety (cybernetics) , range (aeronautics) , relative clause , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , engineering , aerospace engineering
All of the papers in the volume except one (Kaji) take up some aspect of relative clause construction in some Bantu language. Kaji’s paper aims to account for how Tooro (J12; western Uganda) lost phonological tone through a comparative study of the tone systems of other western Uganda Bantu languages. The other papers examine a range of ways of forming relative clauses, often including non-restrictive relatives and clefts, in a wide range of languages representing a variety of prosodic systems.