@article{302476,
  author         = {Bostoen, Koen and Leon Mundeke},
  journal        = {Journal of African Languages and Linguistics},
  number         = {2},
  pages          = {179-218},
  publisher      = {Walter de Gruyter GmbH \& Co. KG},
  title          = {The causative/applicative syncretism in Mbuun (Bantu B87, DRC): Semantic split or phonemic merger?},
  url            = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jall.2011.32.issue-2/jall.2011.007/jall.2011.007.xml},
  volume         = {32},
  year           = {2011},
  abstract       = {In Mbuun (B87), a Bantu language spoken in the Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the valency-increasing functions of the causative and the applicative have, to a certain extent, the same formal expression. They are encoded morphologically by a derivational suffix which has an uncharacteristic morphophonological realization. It triggers the gemination of the root-final consonant. In this paper, we examine whether this causative/applicative isomorphism is the result of a semantic split or rather the outcome of a phonemic merger. In the first case, the semantic extension must have happened from applicative to causative rather than the cross-linguistically more common evolution from causative to applicative, since the consonant gemination associated with these forms has its origin in the Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *- i d-. In the case of a phonemic merger, however, this applicative suffix would have become homophonous with an originally distinct suffix having a causative effect as the result of convergent morphophonological change. This morpheme cannot be the Proto-Bantu causative suffix *-ici-, which still has a residual causative use in Mbuun.},
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  citekeys       = {langsci298:bostoen2011},
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  doi            = {10.1515/jall.2011.007},
  fn             = {africa\bostoen-mundeke_mbuun-causative2011.pdf, africa\bostoen-mundeke_mbuun-causative2011_o.pdf},
  hhtype         = {specific_feature},
  inlg           = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby = {langsci298},
  issn           = {0167-6164},
  lgcode         = {Mbuun [zmp]},
  macro_area     = {Africa},
  sortname       = {Bostoen, Koen and Leon Mundeke},
  src            = {degruyter, hh, langsci}
}