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Cognitive schemas and motion verbs: COMING and GOING in Chindali (Eastern Bantu)
This study develops a detailed semantic analysis of a dozen COME and GO verbs in an eastern Bantu language, Chindali...
Keywords: Bantu, Chindali, deixis, lexical semantics, motion verb, verb chaining in discourse
02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterMultifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns
It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...
Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterTense and cognitive space: On the organization of tense/aspect systems in Bantu languages and beyond
Bantu languages are well-known for their complex tense systems encoding multiple degrees of remoteness...
Keywords: Bantu, cognitive domains, dissociation, semantics, tense
01/2008 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter