Nambya Linguistics Bibliography

NAMBYA REFERENCE MATERIALS

ALAPONT, Alexander (early 1960s). “First Elementary ChiNambya Grammar”. Manuscript.

MORENO, Augustine (1973). Notes in Nambya. Dete: mimeographed edition. 96 pp. — based on Alapont. Arranged in 65 lessons.  — 1973 was the year the use of Nambya was approved for the Catholic liturgy.

MORENO, Augustine. Nambya Dictionary (1988). In collaboration with the Nambya Cultural Assn (Gweru: Mambo Press); repr. Ilizwi Centre, St. Theresa’s Catholic Mission, 2004.

MORENO, Augustine and Alexander Alapont (1994). Notes in Nambya. Unpublished manuscript.

MORENO, Augustine. Nambya Grammar (Plumtree: Ilizwi Centre, St. Theresa’s Catholic Mission, 2004), 176 pp. — arranged in 63 lessons.

MORENO, Agustín Muguruza (2011). Gramática nambya. Madrid: Biblioteca de autores Cristianos.  235+ pp.  — arranged in 63 lessons.  A translation of Moreno’s 2004 grammar in English, but with different pagination.

 

NAMBYA LINGUISTIC RESEARCH

The ALLEX Project: Online corpus for Nambya. folk.uio.no/danielr/africanlang.html

CHABATA, Emmanuel (2012). “A cognitive grammatical approach to the semantics of Nambya extended verbs”, Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No.1, pp 33-50.

CHABATA, Emmanuel. The Nambya Verb with Special Emphasis on the Causative. Ph.D. Dissertation. Oslo: University of Oslo. 2007, 283 p. (pdf)

CHABATA, Emmanuel (2006). “Causative Constructions in Nambya: A Lexical mapping Theory Account”, Zambezia, Vol. XXXIII, No. i/ii, pp. 95-114, 2006.

DOWNING, Laura J. & Bryan Gick. “Voiceless tone depressors in Nambya and Botswana Kalang’a”, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 27, 2001), pp. 1-11. (pdf).

ETHNOLOGUE entry: Nambya [nmq]

KADENGE, Maxwell, “Resolving hiatus inNambya: An optimality theoretic account”, paper at the 42nd Annual Conf. on African Linguistics. 2011.

KADENGE, Maxwell, “Some Segmental Phonological Processes Involving Vowels in Nambya: A Preliminary Descriptive Account”, The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.3, March 2010, 239-52. (pdf)

KADENGE, Maxwell. The Phonology of Nambya. Unpublished D.Phil Thesis. Harare: University of Zimbabwe. 2007.

 

Also see web resources for Shona: http://africanlanguages.org/shona.html