Topic
Luganda
About: Luganda is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 58 publications have been published within this topic receiving 516 citations. The topic is also known as: Ganda & lg.
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22 Mar 2006
TL;DR: A typology of subject and object markers in African languages is presented in this paper, with a focus on Bantu passives and agent phrases in the context of switch reference.
Abstract: 1. Introduction (by Voeltz, F.K. Erhard) 2. Future tense and aspect marking in Southern Bantu (by Batibo, Herman M.) 3. The marking of directional deixis in Somali: How typological idiosyncratic is it? (by Bourdin, Philippe) 4. A typology of subject and object markers in African languages (by Creissels, Denis) 5. Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area (by Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.) 6. Agent phrases in Bantu passives (by Fleisch, Axel) 7. Grammaticalization of switch reference: Motivation and means (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt) 8. Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in Northeast Africa (by Guldemann, Tom) 9. The OHO constraint (by Hayward, Richard J.) 10. The word in Luganda. (by Hyman, Larry M.) 11. Case in Africa: On categorial misbehavior (by Konig, Christa) 12. The typology of relative clause formation in African languages (by Kuteva, Tania) 13. Deictic categories in particles and demonstratives in three Gur languages (by Lebikaza, Kezie Koyenzi) 14. Preprefix or not - that is the question: The case of Kwangali, Kwanyama and Ndonga (by Legere, Karsten) 15. Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber): A typological perspective (by Mettouchi, Amina) 16. Grammaticalization chains of the verb Kare 'to give' in Kabba (by Moser, Rosmarie) 17. Selectors in Cushitic (by Mous, Maarten) 18. How Bantu is Kiyansi?: A re-examination of its verbal inflections (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.) 19. Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages (by Reineke, Brigitte) 20. Structure and function of incorporation processes in compounding (by Riehl, Claudia Maria) 21. Toward a typological perspective for Emai's BE constructions. (by Schaefer, Ronald P.) 22. Intrinsic focus and focus control in two varieties of Hausa (by Wolff, H. Ekkehard) 23. Language index 24. Name index 25. Subject index
168 citations
TL;DR: This paper showed that FVS does not work the same on nouns as it does on verbs and that an empirically adequate analysis must take into account the source of such word-final length, e.g. underlying vs. derived.
Abstract: A process by which long vowels are shortened in \"final position\" has been noted by a number of linguists, e.g. Ashton et al [1954], Tucker [1962], Cole [1967], Stevick [1969], Katamba [1974], Clements [1986]. It is generally assumed that this shortening is characteristic of word-ends such that the process can even serve as a criterion for phonological word division. Despite the attention given to final vowel shortening (FVS), the relevant facts have not been exhaustively described. In this descriptive account, we show that FVS is a much more complex phenomenon than the Luganda literature suggests. We observe, for instance, that FVS does not work the same on nouns as it does on verbs and that an empirically adequate analysis must take into account the source of such word-final length, e.g. underlying vs. derived. In our solution, FVS first applies at the end of a phonological word (PW) and then again at the end of a clitic group (CG). In order for the facts to fall out from this analysis, we argue that at the PW level (1) the final vowel of verb forms is not affected because it is extrametrical, i.e. \"invisible\" and (2) the second mora of a monosyllabic stem is not affected because it is accented.
75 citations
26 Sep 2008
TL;DR: It is shown that in both languages all nouns are formed via the merger of the nominalizer head [n] with a nominal stem [LP] yielding the nominal structure [nP [n [LP]]] and that syntactic movement is necessary in the noun formation process of Italian nouns to derive the correct morpheme order.
Abstract: In this paper, I propose a unified syntactic analysis of Luganda and Italian simple nouns. I argue that Italian and Luganda nouns are formed in the syntax via merge and move operations. More specifically, I show that in both languages all nouns are formed via the merger of the nominalizer head [n] with a nominal stem [LP] yielding the nominal structure [nP [n [LP]]] and that syntactic movement is necessary in the noun formation process of Italian nouns to derive the correct morpheme order.In order to prove that the structure [nP [n [LP]]] is representative for both languages, I demonstrate that the nominalizer head [n] corresponds to both the Italian gender feature and the Luganda class feature and that, therefore, gender and class are the same feature. The data analysis in sections (2) and (3) of this paper supports the claim that gender and class are the same feature because of their identical inflectional and derivational functions. At the inflectional level, gender and class trigger VP and DP agreement and at the derivational level gender and class function as n-marked heads whose merger with an XP yields a noun.
55 citations
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23 Jul 2021TL;DR: In this article, a unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns is presented, focusing on the interpretability of phi-features and agreement and concord in nominal expressions.
Abstract: 1. Acknowledgments 2. List of contributors 3. Introduction 4. Part 1. Clitics and agreement 5. Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance (by Marten, Lutz) 6. On different types of clitic clusters (by Cardinaletti, Anna) 7. Pronominal object markers in Romance and Bantu (by Labelle, Marie) 8. The Bantu-Romance connection in verb movement and verbal inflectional morphology (by Harford, Carolyn) 9. Part 2. The structure of DPs 10. DP in Bantu and Romance (by Carstens, Vicki) 11. On the interpretability of phi-features (by Zamparelli, Roberto) 12. Agreement and concord in nominal expressions (by Giusti, Giuliana) 13. A unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns (by Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca) 14. Part 3. Information structure 15. The fine structure of the Topic field (by Frascarelli, Mara) 16. Focus at the interface: Evidence from Romance and Bantu (by Costa, Joao) 17. Agreement in thetic VS sentences in Bantu and Romance (by Wal, Jenneke van der) 18. Index of languages 19. General index
39 citations
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