This dissertation concerns itself with the applicative morpheme, often analyzed as a valency-
increasing morpheme which licenses an additional object to the argument structure of a …

Evidence from the study of verbal argument alternations suggests that the syntactic structure
of an event-denoting clause often reflects the structure of the event it denotes, in the sense …

This dissertation first addresses various shortcomings in definitions of “applicative” when
compared to what is actually found across languages. It then proposes a four-way distinction …

Causative and applicative morphemes have been central in work on the morphosyntax of
argument structure. However, several genetically unrelated languages use a single …

Unlike the gender-based systems of noun categorization in many European languages,
numerous semantic categories contribute to Bantu noun class systems. Kinyarwanda, the …

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 …

Morphological analysis and disambiguation is an important task and a crucial preprocessing
step in natural language processing of morphologically rich languages. Kinyarwanda, a …

L'étude que nous entreprenons s' intitule 'Les verbes de mouvement et l'expression du lieu
en kirundi (bantou, JD62): une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus'. Le point de départ …

Abstract Research into Ugandan English places it in the nativisation phase of the evolution
of Englishes, amidst a nexus of local acceptance with ingredients of endonormativity and …

This article investigates the derivational relationships among members of verbal paradigms
in Kinyarwanda (Bantu JD61; Rwanda) by pursuing two interrelated goals. First, I describe a …