The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is interested in linguistic theory, comparative and historical linguistics, and questions of language, identity, and society. Most of his work focuses on African languages and he has conducted research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Ellen Hurst-Harosh holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on African youth language practices, including stylects and registers, and the use of African languages and English in peer interactions and online spaces, media, texts, and education. She is a Research Associate with the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies, and Applied Linguistics at the University of Johannesburg. Nancy C. Kula is Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Leiden (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics). Her research focuses on Bantu languages of Central/Eastern and Southern Africa where she works on phonology, mophology, intonation, tone, the phonology-syntax interact, and aspects of morphosyntax. She also works on language policy, multlingualism, and multilingual pedagogies and practices in Africa. Jochen Zeller is Professor of Linguistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. He received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 1999, and has lived and worked in South Africa since 2001. He specializes in generative syntax, but he has also published on semantics and phonetics and on topics in socio- and applied linguistics. While his main research area is Bantu grammar, he is also interested in language and cognition more broadly, and he has been working on various projects that use experimental methods to explore online language processing in speakers of Bantu languages.