oai:sil.org:61479
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OLAC Record oai:sil.org:61479 |
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| Title: | Comparative Study of Eastern Bantu Narrative Texts | |
| Abstract: | This study of narrative texts from twelve Bantu languages spoken in eastern Africa reveals a number of discourse-level similarities together with previously undescribed differences. Discourse features investigated include the characteristics of different episodes, inter-clausal and inter-sentential connectives, participant reference (including the use of independent pronouns and demonstratives), tense and aspect, movement expressions (such as itive and ventive markers), information structure, adverbial and relative clauses, and reported speech. Of particular note are variations between the languages concerning the discourse functions of demonstratives and the expression of topic and focus, and evidence of a linguistic cycle affecting quotative markers in reported speech. | |
| Contributor (author): | Nicolle, Steve | |
| Date (W3CDTF): | 2015 | |
| Description (URI): | http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/61479 | |
| Extent: | 87 pages | |
| Identifier (URI): | http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/61479 | |
| http://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/61479 | ||
| Is Part Of: | SIL Electronic Working Papers 2015-003 | |
| Language: | English | |
| Language (ISO639): | eng | |
| Publisher: | SIL International | |
| Spatial Coverage (ISO3166): | TD | |
| KE | ||
| MZ | ||
| TZ | ||
| Subject: | Bena (Tanzania) language | |
| Kabwa language | ||
| Digo language | ||
| Koti language | ||
| Fuliiru language | ||
| Jita language | ||
| Makonde language | ||
| Kwaya language | ||
| Langi language | ||
| Malila language | ||
| Suba-Simbiti language | ||
| Mwani language | ||
| Bantu languages; demonstratives; discourse; information structure; narrative; quotatives; tense; aspect | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | bez | |
| cwa | ||
| dig | ||
| eko | ||
| flr | ||
| jit | ||
| kde | ||
| kya | ||
| lag | ||
| mgq | ||
| ssc | ||
| wmw | ||
| Type (DCMI): | Text | |
| Type (OLAC): | language_description | |
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| Archive: | SIL Language and Culture Archives | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/sil.org | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:sil.org:61479 | |
| DateStamp: | 2013-04-27 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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| Citation: | Nicolle, Steve. 2015. SIL Electronic Working Papers 2015-003. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa area_Europe country_CD country_GB country_KE country_MZ country_TZ dcmi_Text iso639_bez iso639_cwa iso639_dig iso639_eko iso639_eng iso639_flr iso639_jit iso639_kde iso639_kya iso639_lag iso639_mgq iso639_ssc iso639_wmw olac_language_description | |
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| Country: | Democratic Republic of the CongoKenyaMozambiqueTanzania | |
| Area: | Africa | |