Kristina Riedel

Biographic Data

ID1498724
NAMEKristina Riedel
GIVEN NAMESKristina
FAMILY NAMERiedel
SIGNATURERIEDEL K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Free State
ORCID0000-0002-2809-0066
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Auxiliary verb constructions in Southern Bantu

    Open AccessThera Marie Crane, Hannah Gibson et al.ARTICLELinguistic Typology2026

    This article develops the first systematic comparative study of auxiliaries in Southern Bantu, delineating their salient properties. Southern Bantu languages are reported to have large auxiliary inventories, with sixty or more auxiliaries documented for some languages. Auxiliary functions go beyond tense, aspect, mood, and polarity to express a variety of adverbial and other meanings. Auxiliary constructions take three main patterns of complement…

  • Recursivity and Focus in the Prosody of Xitsonga DPs

    Open AccessJ Lee, Seunghun J Lee et al.ARTICLELanguages2023References: 23

    This paper explores the prosodic patterns of complex DP structures in Xitsonga by looking at penultimate lengthening in DPs with marked and unmarked word orders of different types. We discuss the underlying syntactic structures and prosodic realizations of Xitsonga DPs. We are particularly interested in the way in which recursion applies in the Xitsonga DP, where it surfaces in DPs with multiple modifiers of the same or different categories that …

  • Animacy-based concord in Chiyao

    Kristina Riedel, Julius TajiARTICLESouth African Journal of African…2022

    Chiyao (Bantu, P21) allows animate concord and/or grammatical agreement for subject and object marking, depending on the type of noun. This article offers an initial description of the relevant patterns in Tanzanian Chiyao. We examine animacy effects in Chiyao grammar, focusing on subject and object marking. We show that the choice of animate concord over class concord is determined by a complex combination of factors, including formal grammatica…

  • Question structure and intonation in Fipa

    Open AccessKristina Riedel, Cédric PatinARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2011

    This paper sketches the morphosyntactic and prosodic properties of questions in Fipa, discussing three varieties: Milanzi, Nkansi and Kwa. The general word order and morphological patterns relevant to question structures are outlined and different types of wh-question constructions are described and tentatively linked to the prosodic features of Fipa questions

  • Appendix

    Open AccessCédric Patin, Kristina RiedelARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2011

    This questionnaire is intended as an aid to eliciting different question types, including yes/no questions, alternative questions, and wh-questions on a range of constituents. We have taken care to include examples that allow one to test for common Bantu phenomena, such as a subject/non-subject asymmetry in wh-questions and an obligatory immediately after the verb (IAV) position for questioning verb complements. The questionnaire is intended as a…

  • What the Bantu languages can tell us about word order and movement

    Open AccessLeston C Buell, Leston Buell et al.ARTICLELingua2011Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Relative clauses in Haya

    Open AccessKristina RiedelARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2010

    This paper gives an overview of the morphology and syntax of Haya relative clause constructions. It extends previous work on this topic (Duranti, 1977) by incorporating data from a number of different dialects and by introducing new data on locative relative clauses. The dialects discussed in addition to the Kihanja data from Byarushengo et al. (1977) include Kiziba, Muleba and Bugabo dialects. Nyambo data taken from Rugemalira (2005) is also com…

  • Papers from the workshop on Bantu relative clauses

    Open AccessLaura J Downing, Laura Downing et al.ARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2010Cited by: 4References: 8

    All of the papers in the volume except one (Kaji) take up some aspect of relative clause construction in some Bantu language. Kaji's paper aims to account for how Tooro (J12; western Uganda) lost phonological tone through a comparative study of the tone systems of other western Uganda Bantu languages. The other papers examine a range of ways of forming relative clauses, often including non-restrictive relatives and clefts, in a wide range of lang…

  • Object marking in Sambaa

    Open AccessKristina RiedelARTICLELinguistics in the Netherlands2007Cited by: 1

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