Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2021-12-14 DOI:10.1163/19552629-14020007

Sara Pacchiarotti, K. Bostoen

引用次数: 5

Abstract

In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss (fvl) in the Bantu languages of the Lower Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We argue that this diachronic sound shift rose relatively late in Bantu language history as a contact-induced change and affected adjacent West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu languages belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. We account for its emergence and spread by resorting to two successive processes of language contact: (1) substrate influence from extinct hunter-gatherer languages in the center of innovation consisting of Bantu B80 languages, and (2) dialectal diffusion towards certain peripheral Bantu B70, C80, H40 and L10 languages.

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下开赛班图语(drc)中最后元音的丢失是一种接触引起的变化

在这篇文章中，我们提出了刚果民主共和国下开赛地区班图语中最后元音丢失(fvl)的定性和定量比较。我们认为，这种历时性的语音转移在班图语历史上出现得相对较晚，是一种接触引起的变化，并影响了属于不同系统发育集群的邻近的西海岸和中西部班图语言。我们通过两个连续的语言接触过程来解释它的出现和传播:(1)在创新中心已经灭绝的狩猎-采集语言的底层影响，由班图B80语言组成;(2)向某些外围班图B70, C80, H40和L10语言的方言传播。

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Journal of Language Contact LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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1.50

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审稿时长

20 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Language Contact (JLC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal. It focuses on the study of language contact, language use and language change in accordance with a view of language contact whereby both empirical data (the precise description of languages and how they are used) and the resulting theoretical elaborations (hence the statement and analysis of new problems) become the primary engines for advancing our understanding of the nature of language. This involves linguistic, anthropological, historical, and cognitive factors. Such an approach makes a major new contribution to understanding language change at a time when there is a notable increase of interest and activity in this field. The Journal of Language Contact accepts articles in English and French.