Browsing School of Arts and Social Sciences by Subject "Bantu"

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Object clitics in a Bantu language: Deriving pronominal incorporation in Lubukusu

Baker, Mark C.; Sikuku, Justine (2013)

Object marking on verbs in Bantu languages is generally realized by a prefix that appears morphologically adjacent to the verb root, as is shown below in (2)for Lubukusu, a Bantu language spoken in ...
Pragmatic effects of clitic doubling Two kinds of object markers in Lubukusu

Sikuku, Justine M.; Diercks, Michael; Marlo, Michael R. (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019)

Object markers (OMs) in Bantu languages have long been argued to be either incorporated pronouns or agreement morphemes, distinguished mainly by their ability (or not) to co-occur with (i.e. double) in situ objects. Lubukusu ...
Sources of (A)symmetry in Bantu double object constructions

Baker, Mark C.; Safir, Ken; Sikuku, Justine (Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2012)

For more than thirty years, symmetrical and asymmetrical object constructions have been a classictopic in the syntax of Bantu languages and beyond, at least since controversies in the Relational Grammar ...

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