Research Title
To Break or Be Broken – A Study of Valency-Decreasing Alternations in East Ruvu Bantu Languages
Researchers
Dr. Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-el, Dr. Ponsiano Kanijo, and Prof. Malin Petzel
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Start year
2021
End year
2024
Status
On-going
Research Summary
This project will investigate diachronic, semantic, and syntactic aspects of Bantu valency- decreasing verbal morphology, as well as its relation to and effect on verbal semantics in the East Ruvu languages, a genealogical group of six under-analysed Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania.