3L Consortium - Lyon, Leiden, London  

International Summer School on
Language Documentation and Description

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden

5 July - 17 July 2010
Instructor:
Thilo C. Schadeberg
Leiden University

Course days:
Monday 5 July 2010
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Thursday 8 July 2010
Friday 9 July 2010

Course time:
16.00-18.30

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Bantu Linguistics

The course provides an introduction to and overview of Bantu languages and linguistics. The first four days have the topics: phonology and reconstruction; noun classes and agreement; verb inflection and TAM; derivation and valency. On the fifth day we shall study a short text in — language to be chosen (Swahili, Nyamwezi, UMbundu, CiLuba?).

Suggested Readings
  • A. E. Meeussen. 1967. Bantu grammatical reconstructions. Africana Linguistica 3:79-121.
  • D. Nurse & G. Philippson, eds. 2003. The Bantu languages. (Selected chapters.)