This dissertation advances our understanding of the cross-linguistic variation in the
expression of temporal adverbial relations, the semantic polyfunctionality of temporal clause …

This paper serves as an introduction to the special issue of Studies in African Linguistics
devoted to conditional constructions in African languages. I first describe the motivation for …

This article offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the use and meaning of the verbal
prefix-andi-in the Great Lakes Bantu language Luganda (JE15). On the basis of a text …

Cuwabo (P34) is a Bantu language spoken by more than 800,000 people in the north-
eastern part of Mozambique. This chapter is a grammatical sketch of “central Cuwabo,” ie …

This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the
origin of the African linguistic family commonly known as Bantu. It is about how to retrieve …

This paper presents a morphosyntactic characterisation and a semantic classification of
Gĩkũyũ conditional sentences. A morphosyntactic characterisation of Gĩkũyũ conditional …

❖ Various studies have explored conditionals crosslinguistically (eg Comrie 1986).❖ Only a
few studies have analyzed them in specific regions.❖ Accordingly, the study of the areality of …

Truth-conditionals content of linguistic constructions have been explored by a range of
scholars from diverse perspectives, including psychology, cognitive linguistics, semantics …

Phasal polarity is used to refer to four time-related expressions denoting opposite phasal
values and polarity, ie NOT YET, ALREADY, STILL, and NO LONGER. These four concepts …