Afrika und Übersee

The present volume of Afrika und Übersee assembles selected contributions to the “1st Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d)”, that was held at the University of Hamburg from March 23–25, 2022.
Roger Blench sets the frame with his general overview of the Bantoid languages and the state of the art of their exploration. Jeffrey Wills tracks down the Proto-Benue-Congo velar nasal, providing evidence of either its preservation or loss in various Bantoid language groups. Pierpaolo Di Carlo explores the possibilities of sociolinguistic cartography to Bantoid languages of the Lower Fungom area. Nelson Tschonghongei and Jeff Good work towards a typology of consonant mutations and vowel ablaut patterns in numerals of the Yemne-Kimbi subgroup. Hugues Gueche Fotso Carlos provides an overview of the strategies employed for marking major categories in information structure, i.e. focus and topic, in Nda’nda’. The two remaining contributions target the emergence of numeral classifier systems in two branches of Bantoid under different perspectives. Solange Mekamgoum and Roland Kießling discuss the concurrency of the newly emergent numeral classifier system and the inherited gender system in Eastern Grassfields Ngəmba, while Michael Terhemen Angitso and Roland Kießling explore the extent to which an incipient numeral classifier system can be reconstructed for Proto-Tivoid.