Patrick Kanampiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5971612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Kanampiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanampiu |
| SIGNATURE | KANAMPIU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Humanities, Tharaka University; Centre for Language Evolution, The University of Edinburgh, [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Object expression in Kîîtharaka
Across world languages, speakers are known to structure information in such a way that they accommodate the discourse context in which the utterances are made. In so doing they put into consideration the mental state of the hearer and also their own communication intentions (see Dooley 2020). This achieves effective communication. Such strategies in information structure are found in object expression. The data for this research was gathered from…
Gender Comes First
Morphosyntactic expression exhibits significant crosslinguistic variation, yet systematic tendencies emerge. Gender and number features are frequently coexpressed within a single exponent, and when they are realized separately, gender morphology tends to surface closer to the stem. Competing theoretical accounts of gender and number seek to explain these tendencies, but empirical validation remains challenging due to sparse typological data. Acro…
Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations
Discourse function has often been noticed to be a strong factor in conditioning Bantu word order. The importance of discourse function for determining the word order of Bantu languages is visible for example in locative inversion and dedicated focus positions. As a result of such phenomena, it has been proposed that Bantu word order is best captured by reference to discourse roles, e.g. Topic-Verb-Nontopic. Nevertheless, we typically see statemen…
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Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations
Discourse function has often been noticed to be a strong factor in conditioning Bantu word order. The importance of discourse function for determining the word order of Bantu languages is visible for example in locative inversion and dedicated focus positions. As a result of such phenomena, it has been proposed that Bantu word order is best captured by reference to discourse roles, e.g. Topic-Verb-Nontopic. Nevertheless, we typically see statemen…
Object expression in Kîîtharaka
Across world languages, speakers are known to structure information in such a way that they accommodate the discourse context in which the utterances are made. In so doing they put into consideration the mental state of the hearer and also their own communication intentions (see Dooley 2020). This achieves effective communication. Such strategies in information structure are found in object expression. The data for this research was gathered from…
Gender Comes First
Morphosyntactic expression exhibits significant crosslinguistic variation, yet systematic tendencies emerge. Gender and number features are frequently coexpressed within a single exponent, and when they are realized separately, gender morphology tends to surface closer to the stem. Competing theoretical accounts of gender and number seek to explain these tendencies, but empirical validation remains challenging due to sparse typological data. Acro…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Bantu languages (1 work) · Complement (music (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Expression (computer science (1 work) · Gender Studies in Language (1 work)