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Variation and grammaticalisation in Bantu complex verbal constructions: The dynamics of information growth in Swahili, Rangi and siSwati (2016)
Book Chapter
Gibson, H., & Marten, L. (2016). Variation and grammaticalisation in Bantu complex verbal constructions: The dynamics of information growth in Swahili, Rangi and siSwati. In L. Nash, & P. Samvelian (Eds.), Approaches to Complex Predicates (70-109). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004307094_005

Many Bantu languages have a system of complex verbal constructions, where several verbal forms combine to describe a single event. Typically, these consist of an auxiliary and a main verb, and often tense-aspect marking and subject agreement is found... Read More about Variation and grammaticalisation in Bantu complex verbal constructions: The dynamics of information growth in Swahili, Rangi and siSwati.

Linguistic variation and the dynamics of language documentation: Editing in ‘pure’ Kagulu (2016)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., & Petzell, M. (2016). Linguistic variation and the dynamics of language documentation: Editing in ‘pure’ Kagulu. In M. Seyfeddinipur (Ed.), African language documentation: new data, methods and approaches (105-129). University of Hawaii at Manoa