Essays about: "Eboo"

Found 2 essays containing the word Eboo.

1. 1. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
   Keywords : Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

   Abstract : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. READ MORE

3. 2. Aspects of phonology in Eboo-Nzikou (Bantu B74)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2012-06-27]
   Keywords : African linguistics; Bantu languages; Congo-Brazzaville; Teke; Eboo-Nzikou; Proto-Bantu; phonology; advanced tongue root harmony; consonant loss; vowel assimilation; vowel splits; nasalisation;

   Abstract : This paper describes aspects of the phonology of Eboo-Nzikou which forms part of the Teke language group (Bantu B70) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. It posits that Eboo and Nzikou are phonologically the same variety of Teke. Proto-Bantu reconstructions, as well as two previous phonological sketches of Eboo are taken as the basis for this study. READ MORE