Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen(De Gruyter, 2018)
This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific
tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about
40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around ...
De Kind, Jasper; Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen(De Gruyter, 2015-11)
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive
aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003;
Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in
Kikongo ...
Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen(John Benjamins Publishing, 2020)
The North-Angolan Bantu language Kisikongo has a present tense (O-Rang- a; R=root) that is morphologically more marked than the future tense (O-R-a). We reconstruct how this typologically uncommon tense-marking feature ...
