An introduction to Reconstructing Proto-Bantu Grammar

This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral
language at the origin of the African linguistic family commonly known as Bantu. It
is about how to retrieve the phonology, the morphology and the syntax the
earliest Bantu speakers used to communicate with each other. In §1, I explain how this
book came about. In §2, I offer a short presentation of its contents. In §3, I reflect
critically on a number of methodological issues. Finally, in §4, I attempt to assess
to what extent the new research presented in this volume requires a revision of
Meeussen (1967).