This dissertation is an in-depth investigation of DP structure in Kipsigis, an extremely
understudied Southern Nilotic language spoken in Kenya. All data come from original …

This article is an examination of null expletive subjects occurring in the context of an
embedded clause in Logoori, a Kenyan Bantu language. Logoori morphologically …

A distinction is often made between words expressing lexical content and those expressing
grammatical functions. As a result, content words such as nouns and verbs are typically …

Noun classes are a prominent grammatical feature of Bantu languages where typically each
noun (or noun stem) is assigned to one of between fifteen and eighteen noun classes. Noun …

Abstract Using data from Nyala East (Luhia, Bantu), I argue that both clauses and nouns are
“perspectival domains.” This study primarily focuses on novel cases of what I call epistemic …

Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an
'additional'determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably …

This paper argues that ordered abstract scales are applicable to analyses of a range of
grammatical domains. We argue this based on data from a number of unrelated languages …

Rutooro is a Bantu language of Uganda that lacks lexical tone. Instead, prominence in
Rutooro is marked with a High tone (H) on the penultimate syllable of the phonological …

This volume puts together a collection of papers that seek to provide an insightful
understanding of the internal structure of the Bantu noun phrase (NP), with the central …

This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and
conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages …