Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin (2018)
Journal Article
Lovestrand, J. (2018). Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 10(1), 52-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01001004

This article describes two distinct but related grammaticalization paths in Barayin, an East Chadic language. One path is from a first-person plural pronoun to a first-person dual pronoun. Synchronically, the pronominal forms in Barayin with first-pe... Read More about Plural addressee marker and grammaticalization in Barayin.

The background marker ná in Barayin (2018)
Journal Article
Lovestrand, J. (2018). The background marker ná in Barayin. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 39(1), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2018-0001

This article gives a first account of the background marker ná in Barayin, an East Chadic language spoken in the Guera region of Chad. The article describes the marker’s syntactic distribution and the semantic and pragmatic contexts it occurs in. It... Read More about The background marker ná in Barayin.

Temporal iconicity and verb order in instrumental SVCs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lovestrand, J. (2017, September). Temporal iconicity and verb order in instrumental SVCs. Paper presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland