Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement

This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and patterns that are attested crosslinguistically.

List of contents

• Preface


• List of abbreviations and symbols


• 1: Introduction: agreement, variation, and features


• 2: Object marking defective goals


• 3: Object marking in ditransitives


• 4: Subject marking and inversion


• 5: Features in agreement and licensing


• Appendix: Sources consulted for each language


• References


• Index

About the author

Jenneke van der Wal is a Senior Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She obtained her PhD degree at the same institute in 2009, and has since worked on grammaticalization at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium, investigated comparative syntax and parameter hierarchies at the University of Cambridge, and taught at Harvard University. Her research combines gathering new data from various Bantu languages with developing theories on the interface between syntax and information structure.

Summary

This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and patterns that are attested crosslinguistically.

Product details

• Authors: van der Wal , Jenneke van der Wal, Jenneke (Associate Professor Van Der Wal, Jenneke (Senior Lecturer Van Der Wal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780198844280
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884428-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics, Bantu languages