February 23, 2026
The massive Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages (81 chapters, 1196 two-column pages!), edited by Lutz Marten, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Nancy C. Kula, and Jochen Zeller, was recently published, appearing with the following chapters authored by present and past Berkeley linguists:
- Larry M. Hyman, Chapter 6: Tone
- Josephat Rugemalira (PhD 1993), Chapter 11: Noun classes and agreement
- Thera Marie Crane (PhD 2011), Chapter 28: Lexical structures and lexical semantics
- Jeff Good (PhD 2003), Chapter 32: Historical morphosyntax and syntactic change
- Armindo Ngunga (PhD 1997) & Carlos J. Manuel, Chapter 79: Emakhuwa (P31)