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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 11
November 2024 - 25 articles
Cover Story: This paper presents an overview of the distribution of reflexive–reciprocal syncretism in Eastern Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania. While most Bantu languages encode reflexive and reciprocal constructions by means of two distinct verbal affixes, several Tanzanian Bantu languages have developed reflexive–reciprocal syncretism. In a sample of 79 languages, reflexive–reciprocal syncretism is attested in 27 neighboring languages, thus constituting a clear areal feature. We propose that reflexive–reciprocal syncretism is not a language-internal innovation but was adopted from neighboring non-Bantu languages and subsequently spread out to its current distribution. We locate the heart of this contact-induced spread in the Tanzanian Rift Valley, a convergence zone of languages from multiple African language families in north–central Tanzania. View this paper
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