Bantu Noun Phrase

<p>This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. This volume speaks to contemporary debates on the Bantu noun phrase seeking to stimulate a greater understanding of the true nature of adnominal modification definiteness and anaphoric relations associated with it with respect to various segmental and supra-segmental noun formation and noun classification phenomena. The ten chapters take the reader through the Grassfields North-Western North-Eastern and Southern present-day Bantu homeland making important contributions to the documentation and analysis of Bantu languages.</p><p><i>The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives</i> is unique in its inclusion of so many North-Eastern Bantu languages in its discourse on Bantu linguistics and this important collection will be of particular interest to those researching teaching and studying African languages and linguistics.</p>