5. A Typology of Empty Categories for Kikuyu and Swahili

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. 1. Reflexivization in Kwa Languages 1
5. 2. Object Clitics and Tone Mutation in Igbo 15
6. 3. Negation and Serial Verbal Construction Types in Yoruba 31
7. 4. Nuclear Vocabulary: Some Applications in Historical Linguistics 41
8. 5. A Typology of Empty Categories for Kikuyu and Swahili 55
9. 6. Juba Arabic from a Bari Perspective 71
10. 7. An Autosegmental Treatment of Kisi Noun Class Morphophonemics 79
11. 8. The Nature of Tonological Representation: Evidence from Loko 93
12. 9. The Environment for Consonant Mutation in Mende 107
13. 10. Nandi Nominal Tonology: Two Types of Tonal Process 117
14. 11. Prominence Hierarchies and Turkana Syntax 127
15. 12. Evolutionary Morphology of Definite Articles in Southwestern Mande 149
16. 13. The Passive in Bor Dinka 171
17. 14. The Shona Passive and Government-Binding Theory 179
18. 15. Major Constituent Case Marking in Kanuri 191
19. 16. The Role of Syllabic Structure in the Phonology of Moroccan Arabic 209
20. 17. Pronominalization and the Appearance of Full Noun Referents in Godie Discourse 227
21. 18. The Ideophone in Gbaya Syntax 241
22. 19. Three Dialects of Kipare 257
23. 20. Instances of Semantic Bleaching in South-Eastern Bantu 281
24. List of Contributors 297