203:. His 40-page article "Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions" of 1967 succinctly outlines the main facts of Proto-Bantu grammar as they were known at that time. In 1969 he was responsible for founding the database "Bantu Lexical Reconstructions" still maintained today by the Tervuren museum.
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Sharman, J.C. & Meeussen, A.E. (1955). "The representation of structural tones, with special reference to the tonal behaviour of the verb, in Bemba, Northern
Rhodesia".
163:(1971). His descriptions of the grammar of Ombo, Bangubangu, and Rundi were written as a result of fieldwork notes which he made on a visit to Rwanda-Urundi and
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1980). "Le cas du mbagani. Mbagani et Lwalwa : deux anciens membres du complexe kongo au Kasayi?" In
Bouquiaux, Luc (ed.)
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1980). "Degrés d'archaïsme en bantou." - Communication faite au
Colloque de Viviers (1977). - In Bouquiaux, Luc (ed.)
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1980). "Problèmes spécifiques du grammaire comparé du bantou: exposé introductif". In
Bouquiaux, Luc (ed.)
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Swiggers, Pierre (2006). "Meeussen, Achille Emile (1912-1978)". In Brown, E. K.; Asher, R. E.; Simpson, J. M. Y. (eds.)
55:(1903–1972) he is regarded as one of the two leading experts in Bantu languages in the second half of the 20th century.
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1966). "Syntactic tones of nouns in Ganda : a preliminary synthesis". In Lebrun Yvan (ed.)
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1955). "Tonunterschiede als
Reflexe von Quantitätsunderschieden im Shambala". In Lukas J. (ed.)
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1969). "Bemerkungen über die Zahlwörter von sechs bis zehn in
Bantusprachen". In
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1977). "Aspects préliminaires de l'étude du Punu (Guthrie B43)". Unpublished.
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L'expansion bantue. - Actes du
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L'expansion bantue. - Actes du
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1948). "Guthrie, M. The classification of the Bantu languages (review)".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1978). "Relative structures in Bantu". In Baumbach, E. J. M. (ed).
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1962). "De tonen van subjunktief en imperatief in het Bantoe."
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Lexicon grammaticorum. A Bio-Bibliographical Companion to the History of Linguistics
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1972). "Japanese accentuation as a restricted tone system".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1950). "De tonen van de imperatief in het Ciluba (Kasayi)".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1965). "A preliminary tonal analysis of Ganda verb forms".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1962). "The independent indicative in Mistassinl Crée".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1958). "Morfotonologie van de vervoeging in het Suthu".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1952). "La voyelle des radicaux CV en bantou commun".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1970). "Tone typologies for West African languages".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1974). "A note on global rules in Bangubangu tone".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1973). "Comparative Bantu: Test cases for method."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1955). "Les phonèmes du ganda et du bantu commun".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1954). "Werkwoordafleiding in Mongo en Oerbantoe".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1954). "Le ton des extensions verbales en bantu."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1976). "Notes sur la tonalité du nom en laadi".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1954). "The tones of prefixes in common Bantu."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1953). "De talen van Maniema (Belgisch-Kongo)".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1953). "Notes sur la tonalité du nom en laadi".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1951). "Tooncontractie in het Ciluba (Kasayi)".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1971). "Notes on conjugation and tone in Yao."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1952). "Notes de grammaire rundi". Unpublished.
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Meeussen, Achille E. & Biebuyck, Daniel (1954). "Bembe-tekst".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1962). "The independent order in Cheyenne".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1959). "Essai de grammaire rundi". Tervuren.
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1953). "Rundi-teksten van André Barumwete".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1963). "Morphotonology of the Tonga verb".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1975). "Possible linguistic Africanisms."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1954). "Klinkerlengte in het Oerbantoe".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1977). "Trois pronominaux du mbala".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1967). "Notes on Swahili prosody". -
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1943). "Syntaxis van het Tshiluba".
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1963). "Meinhof's rule in Bantu."
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Meeussen, Achille E. (1974). "Notes on tone in Ganda."
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