Projects

Cross-linguistic comparison of language's diachronies has shown that new negators arise from an originally optional pragmatic reinforcer –  i.e. an expression equivalent to ‘(not) a drop/a thing' in English. This ...read more

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more

This research project, a typology of passive constructions in Bantu, involves several fields of linguistics. It focuses on a particular language family, i.e. Bantu, and addresses the question of variation and micro-variation within ...read more

Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more