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- Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
- Topic #1: Reconstruction
- Topic #2: Historical Linguistics
Reconstructing Benue-Congo person marking I: Proto-Bantoid
This paper is the first part of the complex comparative research of systems of personal pronouns and person markers in Benue‑Congo languages. It aims at conducting a detailed analysis of the systems of person marking in Bantu and Bantoid languages, and reconstructing the Proto‑Bantoid system of person marking, a necessary step for achieving the Proto-Benue-Congo reconstruction. This will cover both the personal pronouns, and verbal and nominal person affixes. Existing hypotheses will be verified and new ones will be proposed for the ways of transformation of the original person marking system into the systems of the present‑day languages of the family.
Cet article est la première partie de la recherche complexe comparative des systèmes des pronoms personels et marques de personne en langues Benue-Congo. L’article a un objectif de conduire une analyse détaillée des systèmes des marques personelles en langues Bantoues et Bantoïdes, et puis de reconstruire le système des marques personelles pour Bantoïde commune, un pas nécessaire pour arriver à la reconstruction Benue-Congo commune. Ce va courir tous les deux les pronoms personnels independants, et les marques de personne nominales et verbales. Les hypothèses existant vont être vérifiées, et les idées nouvelles vont être proposées pour les routes de transformation du système originelle dans les systèmes des langues de la famille du present.