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Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu (2024)
Book
Bloom Ström, E.-M., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Marten, L. (Eds.). (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821359.001.0001

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the wealth of empirical and conceptual work in the field. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu langua... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu.

Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (2024)
Book
Gibson, H., Guérois, R., Mapunda, G., & Marten, L. (Eds.). (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches. Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10453704

The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verba... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches.

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Mapunda, G. (2024). Introduction. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (1-13). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663761

Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Jerro, K. (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (383-420). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663785

The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do not have a long-written record. In contrast, for Swahili such a record exists in the form of an... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili.

Linguistic Variation in Kipemba (2024)
Thesis
Hamad, Y. S. Linguistic Variation in Kipemba. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Kipemba is one of four varieties of the Zanzibar Swahili cluster, spoken on the Island of Pemba by approximately 500,000 people. Kipemba has been understudied and under-documented for decades, resulting in a substantial shortage of linguistic literat... Read More about Linguistic Variation in Kipemba.

Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese (2023)
Thesis
Xue, L. Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The meanings of Mandarin adverbs often display a chameleonic nature. Some of them, like propositional connectives, are used as Boolean operators and can be readily translated as such in a logical way. However, in the specific conversational context,... Read More about Negation, Accommodation and Thought-ascription— On The Inferential Meaning of Connectives in Mandarin Chinese.

Chasu, Taveta and Mbugu: A comparison (2023)
Thesis
McNeill-Everduim, F. Chasu, Taveta and Mbugu: A comparison. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This doctoral thesis focuses on three Bantu languages: Chasu (G22, a.k.a. Asu, Pare, Chathu, Kipare), Mbugu (G221, or “Normal Mbugu”) and Taveta (G21, a.k.a. Kitaveta, Tubheta). Chasu has been linked strongly to Mbugu (e.g. Mous 2003) and to Taveta (... Read More about Chasu, Taveta and Mbugu: A comparison.

Ethnobiological inventories: significance of multilingualism and lexical variation in rural Cameroon (2021)
Thesis
Todd, H. Ethnobiological inventories: significance of multilingualism and lexical variation in rural Cameroon. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides a description and analysis of multilingual ethnobiological lexicons in a rural, linguistically diverse village in Cameroon where people depend daily on plants and animals, making the ethnobiological lexicon extensive. It focuses... Read More about Ethnobiological inventories: significance of multilingualism and lexical variation in rural Cameroon.

The expression of focus in Hindi: a Dynamic Syntax approach (2020)
Thesis
Koumbarou, A. The expression of focus in Hindi: a Dynamic Syntax approach. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis takes a procedural grammar approach to Hindi clause structure paying special attention to information structural phenomena and interpretive possibilities in the peripheries. It uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax formalism where syntax i... Read More about The expression of focus in Hindi: a Dynamic Syntax approach.