Thilo C. Schadeberg’s research while affiliated with Leiden University and other places

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Publications (3)


Tone cases in UMbundu, in Africana Linguistica X
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January 1986

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1 Citation

T.C. Schadeberg


Classification of Nouns and Things in Bantu
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March 1985

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Afrika Focus

Is there a semantic foundation for the system of noun classes and genders found in Bantu (and in Niger-Congo-Kordofanian) ? This question has intensely occupied many bantuists for over a century. Fundamentalist, mentalistic, and ethnosemantic approaches were used to construct explanations. The present paper reviews several such approaches, giving particular emphasis to some old and recent Dutch contributions to this field. KEYWORDS : nominal classification, Bantu, semantics

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... In the remainder of this section, I discuss morphosyntactic features which are of immediate relevance to the discussion of applicative constructions (ACs). Bantu nouns are not marked for case, though tonal case marking has been claimed to exist in some languages, see, e.g., Schadeberg (1986), Blanchon (1999). As is typical of Niger-Congo (Hyman 2014), Bantu languages feature a system of nominal classification where nouns belong to different, partially semantically motivated classes. ...

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The polyfunctional applicative *-ɪd in Bantu languages
Tone Cases in Umbundu
  • Citing Article
  • January 1986

Africana Linguistica

... É importante referir que, do ponto de vista morfológico, a formação do plural de nomes terminados em -r, -z, -n ou -s segue a regra a geral, apesar de razões fonológicas exigirem a ocorrência de uma vogal epentética. É também a regra geral que se aplica em nomes terminados em -ao que, para formarem o plural, se lhes adiciona apenas um -s.3 De acordo comSchadeberg (1986), os afixos entre parênteses representam uma variante da classe, podendo, portanto, ocorrer às vezes uma outras vezes outra forma. ...

Tone cases in UMbundu, in Africana Linguistica X
  • Citing Article
  • January 1986