Derek Nurse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His books include, with T. J. Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History (University of California Press 1993) and, with Bernd Heine, African Languages (CUP 2000). Future work will extend the current book to the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Verb Structure and Categories in Bantu ; 3. Tense ; 4. Aspect ; 5. Other Categories ; 6. What Can be Assumed for Proto-Bantu? ; 7. Processes of Change ; Appendices ; Acknowledgements

Derek Nurse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His books include, with T. J. Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History (University of California Press 1993) and, with Bernd Heine, African Languages (CUP 2000). Future work will extend the current book to the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Verb Structure and Categories in Bantu ; 3. Tense ; 4. Aspect ; 5. Other Categories ; 6. What Can be Assumed for Proto-Bantu? ; 7. Processes of Change ; Appendices ; Acknowledgements

Derek Nurse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His books include, with T. J. Hinnebusch, Swahili and Sabaki: A Linguistic History (University of California Press 1993) and, with Bernd Heine, African Languages (CUP 2000). Future work will extend the current book to the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Verb Structure and Categories in Bantu ; 3. Tense ; 4. Aspect ; 5. Other Categories ; 6. What Can be Assumed for Proto-Bantu? ; 7. Processes of Change ; Appendices ; Acknowledgements