LINGUIST List 17.3359

Thu Nov 16 2006

Books: Phonology: Bently, Kulemeka

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Directory         1.    Ulrich Lueders, Chichewa: Bently, Kulemeka
Message 1: Chichewa: Bently, Kulemeka
Date: 13-Nov-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Chichewa: Bently, Kulemeka


Title: Chichewa Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 345 Published: 2006 Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom.eu

Author: Mayrene Bentley Author: Andrew Kulemeka Paperback: ISBN: 3895869201 Pages: 60 Price: Europe EURO 35
Abstract:

Chichewa is an eastern Bantu language spoken in Malawi, primarily in theKasungu, Dowa, and Lilongwe districts. It is also known as Nyanja becauseof its ethnic and linguistic ties with the Nyanja people. Typical of Bantulanguages, Chichewa is tonal with a CV syllable structure, five vowels, andapproximately forty consonant sounds. It has an extensive noun class systemdistinguished by noun prefixes with an accompanying concord system. Itsverbal system marks tense and aspect by infixes, tone, and auxiliaries. Thepassive, stative, causative, reciprocal, and applicative are verbalsuffixes. Wh-questions are clefts and relative clauses are marked eitherby relative pronouns or tones. In recent years, Chichewa has been a richsource of study syntactically for its use of locatives, morphologically forits ideophones, and phonologically for its prosody and phrase structure.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology
Subject Language(s): Nyanja (nya)
Written In: English (eng )

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