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The focus marker in Kîîtharaka: Syntax and semantics
(2008-05)
This paper investigates a morpheme central to the clausal syntax of Kîîtharaka (SVO, Bantu, E54, Kenyan). The first sections of the paper offer a careful description of three functions of this morpheme, which marks information ...
An anti-locality restriction on subject wh-phrases in Kîîtharaka
(2011-04)
This paper investigates the syntactic restrictions on subject wh-questions in Kîîtharaka, an SVO Bantu language spoken in Kenya (Code E54, according to the classification by Guthrie). Subject wh-phrases exhibit two closely ...