This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

Recent publications in historical linguistics tend to express a near certainty about the
structure of the Bantu language family and explicitly draw on archaeological and genetic …

The middle voice is a notoriously controversial typological notion. Building on previous work
(eg Kemmer, Suzanne. 1993. The middle voice. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John …

This paper explores the coding patterns of partitives and their functional extensions, based
on a convenience sample of 138 languages from 46 families from all macroareas. Partitives …

This paper offers and discusses a simple definition of the term clitic from a comparative
perspective: A clitic is a bound morph that is neither an affix nor a root. It gives examples of …

The present paper investigates diachronic developments that partitives undergo over the
course of time. First, it is shown that true-partitives (part-whole-relation partitives) encoded …

Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the
lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it …

In this paper, we capture the crosslinguistic variation in Bantu nominal structure in a unified
analysis of gender on n (,). We demonstrate that this analysis accounts for the …

The focus of this work is the distribution of one phasal polarity marker, specifically NOT YET
in Bantu languages, cf.(1) below for an introductory illustration. The reasons for choosing …

This dissertation deals with the classification of verbs in Nyamwezi, a Bantu language
spoken in central west Tanzania. The major aims of this study have been twofold: first, to …