With some 300–500 closely related languages, the Bantu family provides a wealth of
examples for the study of syntactic micro-variation within a set of typologically similar …

The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun
classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of …

A movement asymmetry arises in some languages that are otherwise symmetrical for both A-
and Ā-movement in the double object construction, including Norwegian, North-West British …

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken
on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since …

This article explores the role of semantics in argument realization by providing a lexical
semantic account of the contribution of applicative morphology in the Bantu language …

This thesis examines argument structure—the linking relations between verbs and their
arguments—in Choctaw, a Muskogean language spoken in Mississippi and Oklahoma. My …

The Bantu languages show much variation in object marking, two parameters being (1) their
behaviour in ditransitives (symmetric or asymmetric) and (2) the number of object markers …

Drawing evidence from Korean, I argue that the argument-introducing heads Voice (Kratzer
1996) and Appl (Pylkkänen 2008), which are reduced to i*(Wood & Marantz 2017), assign …

This paper reports a case of NOM/ACC alignment in agreement that results from the relative
timing of A-movement and φ-agreement, and not from the position of φ-probes or the …

Sažetak This paper discusses object marking in Swahili, a Bantu language. After presenting
the contexts in which object marking is optional and obligatory, respectively, it is shown that …