Bantu Phonology and Morphology

The collection brings together up-to-date descriptive and theoretical studies of important topics in the phonology and morphology of Bantu languages. Each chapter provides an in-depth treatment of an aspect of an individual language, or a small group of languages. But the issues dealt with are of general importance.
- AL MTENJE University of Malawi
Tone shift, accent and domains in Bantu: the case of Chichewa
- LAURA J. DOWNING Univ. of Pennsylvania
The metrical domain of register raising in Jita: An optimality approach
- LUPENGA MPHANDE The Ohio State U & Curtis Rice University of Tromsø
Chitumbuka ideophones
- SCOTT MYERS Univ. of Texas at Austin
The phonological word in Shona
- DAVID ODDEN Ohio State University
Phonology at the phrasel level in Bantu
- NGESSIMO M. MUTAKA U of Yaoundé
Prosodic circumscription of morphological domains: The case of Kinande verbal forms