Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A fieldworker’s tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell. - Köln; Yaounde: Rutgers University; University of Yaounde, 2001. - pp. 333 - 357. This paper seeks to account for the tonal processes in the infinitive in Kinande. We postulate lexical tones, phrasal tones and intonational tones in the...
S.l., s.a. - 8 p. This paper addresses tonal domains in Kinande as a way of complementing material already published on the Afranaph website on Kinande (cf. Grammar Sketch, Kinande-English dictionary, Kinande OM dislocation). Three foci of interest with respect to the research related to African anaphora are introduced in this paper. First, the verbal extensions –ik-i- (a...
S.l., s.a. - 53 p. This paper presents new analyses of four phonological processes in Kinande (Bantu, DRC) – Intonational Tone Assignment (ITA), Lexical Tone Assignment (LTA), Purposive Suffix Affixation (PSA), and Verbal Reduplication (VR) – and argues that they all make crucial reference to a morphoprosodic “PStem” domain which, though derived from the morphosyntactic stem...
Selected proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of African Linguistics. - Somerville, MA., 2015. - pp. 264-276. In this study, I have introduced novel data that demonstrate that previous accounts of the syntax of the linker in Kinande are empirically inadequate. Specifically, I have established that neither Case theory, nor a linearization requirement that identically...
Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. - Somerville, MA., 2011. - pp. 285-293. Morphological and Phonological Stems in Bantu. Three New Arguments for a Phonological Stem in Kinande. Phonological reference to morphologically-defined domains.
Under review for Selected Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2008. - 8 p. The results of this paper suggest strongly that glides derived from high vowels preserve their underlying [ATR] specifications, and so corroborate – and provide an acoustic explanation for – Mutaka's and Kavutirwaki's...
Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department of Linguistics, s.a. - 46 p. This paper documents the acoustic reflexes of ATR harmony in Kinande followed by an analysis of the dominance reversal found in class 5 nominals. The principal findings are that the ATR harmony is reliably reflected in a lowering of the first formant. Depending on the vowel, ATR harmony...
Tervuren, Belgique: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 2012. — XXXV, 309 p. — ISBN: 978-9-4916-1501-6. Le kinande ou konzo est une langue bantoue, parlée par la population nande, l'un des multiples groupes ethniques de la Rép. dém. du Congo. Le kinande est parlé dans l'Est de la RDC et à l'Ouest de l'Ouganda où les Wanande prennent le nom de Bakondjo ou Bakonzo. Comme toutes...
Author: Ngessimo Mutaka and Kambali Kavutirwaki Publication date: 2009 Number of pages: 523 For the dictionaries to have practical use in the Kinande-speaking communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, as well as for the Kinande-speaker diaspora (which has come in to being due to the ongoing tensions and unrest in the region), hard copies of these...