Language
Bemba
Anaphoric markers
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AGR-eene | AGR OWN | Bemba | Details |
| 2 | AGR.POSS | independent POSS | Bemba | Details |
| 3 | Demonstrative Pronoun | agreeing demonstrative pronoun | Bemba | Details |
| 4 | Emphatic pronoun | Bemba | Details | |
| 5 | Independent pronoun | independent pronoun | Bemba | Details |
| 6 | Null Reciprocal | Null argument interpreted reciprocally | Bemba | Details |
| 7 | Null Reciprocal | Null argument interpreted reciprocally | Bemba | Details |
| 8 | Null reflexive | inherent reflexive | Bemba | Details |
| 9 | Object Marker | Bemba | Details | |
| 10 | RCM | Reciprocal suffix | Bemba | Details |
| 11 | RFM | Reflexive Prefix | Bemba | Details |
| 12 | RFM + AGR-OWN | combination anaphora | Bemba | Details |
| 13 | Subject pro-drop | SM without overt subject | Bemba | Details |
| 14 | WH pronoun | Bemba | Details |
Predicate Types
No results.
Clause Types
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indicative Clause | Indicative Clause | Bemba | Details |
C Types
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | átì | Indicative Clause Complementizer | Bemba | Sections: Properties(4)
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| 2 | ubu | infinitival marker | Bemba | Sections: Properties(6)
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Example Sentences
There are 580 example sentences.
Language Properties
Some syntactic properties of the language
Word order
| Consistently SVO |
General information about the language
ISO code (ISO 639-3), aka Ethnologue code
| bem | |
| Comments | Variety spoken in Democratic Republic of the Congo has a different Ethnologue code - bmy. |
Language name
| Bemba (also Icibemba) |
Dialect/variety reported
| Copperbelt province in Zambia |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, M, Bemba (M.42) |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Nancy C. Kula |
Gender of consultant
| female |
Occupation
| Professor of Linguistics at University of Essex |
Level of education
| post Ph.D. |
Language biography
| a. What language(s) did your parents speak at home? Bemba, English
b. What language(s) do/did your parents speak natively? Bemba c. What language (languages) did you receive school instruction in? English d. How old were you when you learned the subject language? Infant e. Do you speak an identifiable subdialect of this language? What is it called? No f. Do you speak other dialects of the same language? Which ones? No |
Who participated in the elicitation?
| Nancy Kula and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire. |
Status of data in database
Is the information for the sentences entered complete?
| Not sure |
Is the data for markers in this language complete?
| Not sure |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |