Reconstructing Benue-Congo Person Marking II

Kirill Babaev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), babaev@yandex.ru)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 4, 2010 - p.1-45

Abstract: This paper is the second and last part of a comparative analysis of person marking systems in Benue-Congo (BC) languages, started in (Babaev 2008, available online for reference). The first part of the paper containing sections 1–2 gave an overview of the linguistic studies on the issue to date and presented a tentative reconstruction of person marking in the Proto-Bantoid language. In the second part of the paper, this work is continued by collecting data from all the other branches of BC and making the first step towards a reconstruction of the Proto-BC system of person marking.

Keywords: Niger-Congo languages, Benue-Congo languages, personal pronouns, comparative research, reconstruction, person marking

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