LINGUIST List 17.1853

Thu Jun 22 2006

Books: General Linguistics: Downing, Marten, Zerbian (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Laura Downing, Papers in Bantu Theory and Description: Downing, Marten, Zerbian (Eds)
Message 1: Papers in Bantu Theory and Description: Downing, Marten, Zerbian (Eds)
Date: 22-Jun-2006
From: Laura Downing <downingzas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject: Papers in Bantu Theory and Description: Downing, Marten, Zerbian (Eds)


Title: Papers in Bantu Theory and Description Series Title: ZASPiL 43 Published: 2006 Publisher: Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft - ZAS
                http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Book URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Editor: Laura J. Downing, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung Editor: Lutz Marten, SOAS Editor: Sabine Zerbian, ZAS Electronic: ISBN: ISSN14359588 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ Comment: free download
Abstract:

The collection of papers in this volume presents results of a collaborativeproject between the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) inLondon, the Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie undUniversalienforschung (ZAS) in Berlin, and the University of Leiden, whichwas funded by the British Academy International Networks Programme. Thepapers combine the description of new data with theoretically informedanalysis.

The papers can be downloaded for free under the following link:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

ZASPiL 43: Table of contentsThe Zulu Conjoint/Disjoint Verb Alternation: Focus or Constituency?Leston Buell (LUCL, Leiden)

Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba RelativesLisa Cheng (Leiden University) & Nancy C. Kula (LUCL, Leiden)

The Prosody and Syntax of Focus in ChitumbukaLaura J. Downing (ZAS, Berlin)

The Impact of the Morphological Alternation of Subject Markers onTense/Aspect: The Case of SwahiliAhmad Kipacha (The Open University, Tanzania)

Locative Inversion in Otjiherero: More on morphosyntactic variation inBantuLutz Marten (SOAS, London)

A Further Look at Conjunctive and Disjunctive Forms in SetswanaAnna McCormack (SOAS, London)

Linear Order Constraints on Split NPs in ChichewaSam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)

Agreement Properties and Word Order in Comparative BantuYukiko Morimoto (ZAS, Berlin)

Focus in Bantu: verbal morphology and functionDerek Nurse (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Parameters of variation & complement licensing in BantuNhlanhla Thwala (SOAS, London)

The disjoint verb form and an empty Immediate After Verb position inMakhuwaJenneke van der Wal (LUCL, Leiden)

Questions in Northern SothoSabine Zerbian (ZAS, Berlin)

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Bemba (bem)                             Fanagalo (fng)                             Herero (her)                             Nyanja (nya)                             Sotho, Northern (nso)                             Swahili (swh)                             Tswana (tsn)                             Tumbuka (tum)                             Makhuwa (vmw)                             Zulu (zul) Language Family(ies): Bantu                             Narrow Bantu
Written In: English (eng )

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