TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
A1  - Marten, Lutz
A1  - Zerbian, Sabine
T1  - Introduction
T2  - Papers in Bantu grammar and description / editors: Laura J. Downing, Lutz Marten & Sabine Zerbian, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, April 2006, : ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 43, S. 1-7
N2  - The papers in this volume reflect a number of broad themes which have emerged during the meetings of the project as particularly relevant for current Bantu linguistics. [...] The papers show that approaches to Bantu linguistics have also developed in new directions since this foundational work. For example, interaction of phonological phrasing with syntax and word order on the one hand, and with information structure on the other, is more prominent in the papers here than in earlier literature. Quite generally, the role of information structure for the understanding of Bantu syntax has become more important, in particular with respect to the expression of topic and focus, but also for the analysis of more central syntactic concerns such as questions and relative clauses. This, of course, relates to a wider development in linguistic theory to incorporate notions of topic and focus into core syntactic analysis, and it is not surprising that work on Bantu languages and on linguistic theory are closely related to each other in this respect. Another noteworthy development is the increasing interest in variation among Bantu languages which reflects the fact that more empirical evidence from more Bantu languages has become available over the last decade or so. The picture that emerges from this research is that morpho-syntactic variation in Bantu is rich and complex, and that there is strong potential to link this research to research on micro-variation in European (and other) languages, and to the study of morpho-syntactic variables, or parameters, more generally.
KW  - Bantusprachen
KW  - Hypotaxe
KW  - Interrogativsatz
KW  - Intonation <Linguistik>
KW  - Lokativ
KW  - Morphem
KW  - Morphosyntax
KW  - Parataxe
KW  - Phonologie
KW  - Satz
KW  - Syntaktische Kongruenz
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
KW  - Valenz <Linguistik>
KW  - Wortstellung
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30946
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309465
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/189.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 43
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -