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P22
4 videos present
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- Chair:
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Jenneke van der Wal
(LUCL)
- Sessions:
- Wednesday 9 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam
Bantu information structure 2.
Panel P22 at conference W10CAL: 10th World Congress of African Linguistics.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/w10cal/p/10473
Accepted papers
Session 1 Wednesday 9 June, 2021, -
The augment and exhaustivity in Nyakyusa
Jenneke van der Wal
(LUCL)
Amani Lusekelo
(University of Dar es Salaam)
Paper short abstract
augment, focus marking, exhaustivity, Kinyakyusa
A new focus construction in three Bantu languages
Jenneke van der Wal
(LUCL)
Allen Asiimwe
(Makerere University)
Melle Groen
Patrick Kanampiu
(THARAKA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE)
Amani Lusekelo
(University of Dar es Salaam)
Nina van der Vlugt
(Leiden University)
Paper short abstract
Bantu, information structure, comparative syntax, focus, copular construction, grammaticalization
Selecting Alternatives in Eton
Johannes Mursell
(Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Katharina Hartmann
(Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Paper short abstract
BANT, Eton, Augment, Syntax, Information Structure
Predicate focus in Dschang
Colin Brown
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Harold Torrence
(University of California Los Angeles)
Paper short abstract
We provide a description of two constructions associated with predicate focus in Dschang (Grassfields Bantu): Predicate Doubling, and a Tonal Focus construction, marked by a tone bearing verbal suffix.