Joseph Koni Muluwa
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joseph Koni Muluwa is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 235–258 | Chapter
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In this chapter we consider lexical… read more
2011 Vowel split in Hungan (Bantu H42, Kwilu, DRC): A contact-induced language-internal change Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:2, pp. 247–268 | Article
This paper examines the diachronic origin of a vowel split in the Bantu language Hungan. It is shown that the inherited Proto-Bantu seven-vowel (7V) system was first reduced to a classical five-vowel (5V) system before the Kipuka variety of Hungan developed a new kind of 7V system. Such a 7V>5V>7V… read more