Thilo C. Schadeberg

List of John Benjamins publications in which Thilo C. Schadeberg is involved.

Article

Schadeberg, Thilo C. 1994 Spirantization and the 7-to-5 Vowel Merger in Bantu Sound Change, Dominicy, Marc and Didier Demolin (eds.), pp. 73–84 | Article

Abstract. Many Bantu languages have the balanced seven-vowel system i i e a c u u. It is the system that one would, on internal evidence, reconstruct for proto-Bantu. Many other Bantu languages have a reduced five-vowel system i e a c u. The five-vowel systems are historically almost always the… read more