Bantu languages, which are spoken throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa, permit wh-
questions to be constructed in multiple ways, including wh-in-situ, full wh-movement, and …

Abstract The Tanzanian Bantu language Rangi is unusual in that it exhibits a construction in
which an infinitival verb form precedes an inflected auxiliary. This ordering of the infinitive …

There is an on-going debate amongst linguists regarding the status of the object marker
(OM). Some scholars argue that OMs are agreement morphology (Baker 2010, Riedel 2009) …

In many languages, A′-movement in the syntax is reflected by alternations in the
morphology. This paper will use the term extraction morphology to refer to these …

In the Government-and-Binding theory of generative syntax (cf. Chomsky, 1981), it was
posited that a functional head D (eterminer) heads a noun phrase (NP). This view is referred …

This paper investigates the distribution of argument and adjunct question phrases in
Ikalanga. It is argued that both adjunct and argument question phrases in this language are …

This article discusses the most commonly used methods of expressing the copula in
Ikalanga, arguing that although Ikalanga has no single way in which it expresses the copula …

* I am grateful to Mark Baker, Vicki Carstens, Sandy Chung, Jessica Coon, Mike Diercks,
Dave Embick, Bob Frank, Bill Haddican, Jason Kandybowicz, Richie Kayne, David Pesetsky …

Nata is an endangered Bantu language spoken in Northwestern Tanzania, East Africa. Wh-
phrases in the language are construed either to the right in sentence final position or to the …