Detailed view: Leston Chandler Buell - African Languages - Dissertation and Selected Papers
Title:	Leston Chandler Buell - African Languages - Dissertation and Selected Papers
URL:	http://www.fizzylogic.com/users/bulbul/academic.html
Creator:	Buell, Leston Chandler
Abstract:	Articles and the dissertation of L.C. Buell PhD as online full texts. His focus is on: Syntax (locative inversion, reason and purpose questions [why questions], the right periphery, and copular constructions in Bantu languages; reason questions more generally, especially in SVO languages with Wh in situ), morpho-syntax, phonology/syntax interface, Zulu tone, phonological, syntactic, historical, and comparative study of Semitic, Bantu. Languges he has written about: Zulu (South Africa), Wolof (Senegal), Swahili (Tanzania / Kenya) und Sambaa / Shambala (Tanzania). [editors ilissAfrica]
Table of contents:	* Join the new Yahoo Bantu Syntax group * Predication Types and Predicate-Internal Arguments in Zulu. * VP-Internal DPs and Right Dislocation in Zulu. * The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Sambaa * The Syntax of Mirror Principle Violations in Wolof * Zulu ngani as postverbal WHY in CP (negative reason questions) * Asking why in Zulu. * Semantic and Formal Locatives: Implications for the Bantu Locative Inversion Typology (Note: the link is wrong. Please use this instead: http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/37802.pdf) * Evaluating the Immediate Postverbal Position as a Focus Position in Zulu * Transparency Effects in Zulu Reason Questions * The Zulu Conjoint/Disjoint Verb Alternation: Focus or Constituency? * A Fixed Hierarchy for Wolof Verbal Affixes * Affix ordering in Wolof applicatives and causatives * Dissertation: Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax * The Zulu verb within the constraints of the LCA * A Synchonized Parsing Model for the Syntax and Prosody of Swahili. * Zulu Verb List with Tones (a list of high-toned and toneless verb stems) * Swahili amba-less relatives without head movement
Keywords:	Republic of South Africa; African languages; Tanzania; Senegal; Wolof; Swahili; Bantu languages; wh-movement / movement-q; transformational grammar; Shambala; Zulu
Countries:	Tanzania; South Africa; Senegal
Subject areas:	Language » Generalities; Language » Languages of African Origin
Resource type:	Dictionaries; Individual Theses and Dissertations; Collections of Working Papers, Preprints
Language:	English
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