Margaret Wrong Prize Competition, 1954
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
Extract
A Money prize not exceeding £20 is offered in 1954 for a piece of original JLx. literary work by an African whose home is in any part of Africa south of the Sahara.
1. The length of the manuscript should be not less than 7,500 or more than 15,000 words.
2. The language may be English, French, Portuguese, or Afrikaans.
3. The manuscript submitted must show literary merit and be of general interest; the subject matter may include history, biography, folklore, fiction, or studies of African life and thought.
Résumé
PAR la comparaison des langues ulumbu, mumbisa, bubangi, mbagani, luba et kanyok, on peut attribuer au bantou commun les tons prefixaux suivants:
préf. nominal: ton bas (subst., loc, adj.);
préf. pronominal: ton haut, excepté aux classes 1 et 9 (connect., poss., num., relat. verbal);
préf. verbal: ton haut, excepté à la 1re et 2me personne (verbe non relatif).
Pour les autres langues dont nous connaissons le systeme tonal on doit conclure à des simplifications: élimination des exceptions propres au préfixe pronominal ou verbal, ou extension du ton bas à tous les préfixes.
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