Jochen Zeller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106148 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jochen Zeller |
| PRENOMES | Jochen |
| SOBRENOME | Zeller |
| ASSINATURA | ZELLER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3878-2995 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Distributed agreement with conjoined subjects and objects in Zulu
A great deal of work over the last two decades has explored strategies of agreement with coordinate structures whose DP-conjuncts have different φ -feature specifications. However, most of these studies have focused on agreement with conjoined subjects. We investigated verbal agreement with conjoined DPs in the Bantu language Zulu, in which object-DPs optionally agree with the verb; this allowed us to compare agreement with conjoined subjects and…
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
This volume provides a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and one of the world’s biggest language groups, comprising around 500 languages. The family includes major languages with large numbers of speakers, such as Zulu, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, the most widely spoken and taught African lan…
Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
Agreeing objects in Zulu can be indefinite and non-specific
In a number of Bantu languages, object marking is correlated with a definite or specific interpretation of the agreeing object DP, and similar claims about the semantic effects of object marking have also been made for Zulu (Nguni; S42). This paper examines these claims by applying a range of diagnostic tests for (in)definiteness and (non-)specificity to sentences with object-marked objects in Zulu. The paper’s first finding is that agreeing obje…
Verum in Xhosa and Zulu (Nguni)
In this paper we investigate how verum is realized in Xhosa and Zulu, two Southern Bantu languages belonging to the Nguni group. The data for our study were collected through interviews with native speakers who were prompted to produce sentences in discourse contexts that typically license utterances with verum. We found that the main grammatical strategy for the expression of verum in Xhosa and Zulu involves the removal of phrasal constituents f…
The parser consults the lexicon in spite of transparent gender marking
Not’ in focus
This paper investigates the interaction of focus and negation in the Bantu language Zulu (Nguni; S42). I discuss four strategies that are used to negate transitive sentences in Zulu. The default strategy, in which an object marker is added to the negated verb, expresses polarity focus by dislocating the object-marked object from the VP-focus domain. In the second strategy, no object marker occurs, and focus falls on the object or the VP. I show t…
Only' in Nguni
This article investigates the syntax of the phrase-final focus particles kuphela and qha 'only' in Zulu and Xhosa (Nguni; Bantu). We show that kuphela's and qha's associations with a focused constituent respect the complex topography of information structure in Nguni and, like English only, a surface c-command requirement. However, unlike English only, the Zulu and Xhosa particles typically follow the focus associate they c-command, a fact that p…
Language shift or increased bilingualism in South Africa
In the post-apartheid era, South Africa has adopted a language policy that gives official status to 11 languages (English, Afrikaans, and nine Bantu languages). However, English has remained the dominant language of business, public office, and education, and some research suggests that English is increasingly being spoken in domestic settings. Concerns have therefore been raised about the future of the Bantu languages of South Africa. In this st…
Right dislocation and raising-to-object in Zulu
In this paper, we analyze an unusual type of right dislocation in Zulu. We demonstrate that the construction in question combines A-movement of a DP out of an embedded finite CP into a matrix argument position (raising-to-object; RtO) with right dislocation of both the raised DP
Argument prominence and agreement
Die Syntax des Tempus
Locative inversion in Bantu and predication
In generative grammar, locative inversion in Bantu languages is typically analyzed in terms of A-movement of the locative from a VP-internal position to the subject position. I present an alternative analysis, according to which the locative subject-DP is introduced above the νP/VP, in the specifier of a functional category whose head selects the νP/VP as its complement. I suggest that this category is Pr (for "predication"), i.e., the same categ…
The subject marker in Bantu as an antifocus marker
In most Bantu languages, subject-verb agreement is expressed by prefixing a subject marker (SM) to the verb stem; the SM agrees with the noun class features of the preverbal subject. In this paper I suggest that a preverbal subject DP and the corresponding SM start out as one constituent in the derivation. I argue that the class 5 subject noun phrase ikati (cat) and the class 5 SM li-, which is prefixed to the verb in (1), are initially part of t…
South African Indian English
This paper focuses on attitudes towards South African Indian English (SAIE), an L1 variety of English spoken in South Africa. The attitudes of the participants are considered against the backdrop of the socio-political history of this variety and its speakers, and in contrast to their attitudes to what they perceive as 'good' English. While the research methodology is primarily based on lengthy, semi-structured interviews with twenty young South …
Word-level and phrase-level prefixes in Zulu
This article investigates two strategies of relative clause formation in Zulu, a Bantu language spoken in South Africa. The standard way of forming a relative clause in Zulu involves a prefix (a so-called 'relative concord') which is attached to the predicate of the relative clause. In this strategy, the relative concord expresses agreement with the subject of the relative clause. In a second strategy, the relative concord seems to be prefixed to…
Die Syntax des Tempus
Die Syntax des Tempus
Argument prominence and agreement
Language shift or increased bilingualism in South Africa
In the post-apartheid era, South Africa has adopted a language policy that gives official status to 11 languages (English, Afrikaans, and nine Bantu languages). However, English has remained the dominant language of business, public office, and education, and some research suggests that English is increasingly being spoken in domestic settings. Concerns have therefore been raised about the future of the Bantu languages of South Africa. In this st…
Locative inversion in Bantu and predication
In generative grammar, locative inversion in Bantu languages is typically analyzed in terms of A-movement of the locative from a VP-internal position to the subject position. I present an alternative analysis, according to which the locative subject-DP is introduced above the νP/VP, in the specifier of a functional category whose head selects the νP/VP as its complement. I suggest that this category is Pr (for "predication"), i.e., the same categ…
South African Indian English
This paper focuses on attitudes towards South African Indian English (SAIE), an L1 variety of English spoken in South Africa. The attitudes of the participants are considered against the backdrop of the socio-political history of this variety and its speakers, and in contrast to their attitudes to what they perceive as 'good' English. While the research methodology is primarily based on lengthy, semi-structured interviews with twenty young South …
Only' in Nguni
This article investigates the syntax of the phrase-final focus particles kuphela and qha 'only' in Zulu and Xhosa (Nguni; Bantu). We show that kuphela's and qha's associations with a focused constituent respect the complex topography of information structure in Nguni and, like English only, a surface c-command requirement. However, unlike English only, the Zulu and Xhosa particles typically follow the focus associate they c-command, a fact that p…
Die Syntax des Tempus
Die Syntax des Tempus
Word-level and phrase-level prefixes in Zulu
This article investigates two strategies of relative clause formation in Zulu, a Bantu language spoken in South Africa. The standard way of forming a relative clause in Zulu involves a prefix (a so-called 'relative concord') which is attached to the predicate of the relative clause. In this strategy, the relative concord expresses agreement with the subject of the relative clause. In a second strategy, the relative concord seems to be prefixed to…
South African Indian English
This paper focuses on attitudes towards South African Indian English (SAIE), an L1 variety of English spoken in South Africa. The attitudes of the participants are considered against the backdrop of the socio-political history of this variety and its speakers, and in contrast to their attitudes to what they perceive as 'good' English. While the research methodology is primarily based on lengthy, semi-structured interviews with twenty young South …
The subject marker in Bantu as an antifocus marker
In most Bantu languages, subject-verb agreement is expressed by prefixing a subject marker (SM) to the verb stem; the SM agrees with the noun class features of the preverbal subject. In this paper I suggest that a preverbal subject DP and the corresponding SM start out as one constituent in the derivation. I argue that the class 5 subject noun phrase ikati (cat) and the class 5 SM li-, which is prefixed to the verb in (1), are initially part of t…
Die Syntax des Tempus
Locative inversion in Bantu and predication
In generative grammar, locative inversion in Bantu languages is typically analyzed in terms of A-movement of the locative from a VP-internal position to the subject position. I present an alternative analysis, according to which the locative subject-DP is introduced above the νP/VP, in the specifier of a functional category whose head selects the νP/VP as its complement. I suggest that this category is Pr (for "predication"), i.e., the same categ…
Right dislocation and raising-to-object in Zulu
In this paper, we analyze an unusual type of right dislocation in Zulu. We demonstrate that the construction in question combines A-movement of a DP out of an embedded finite CP into a matrix argument position (raising-to-object; RtO) with right dislocation of both the raised DP
Argument prominence and agreement
Language shift or increased bilingualism in South Africa
In the post-apartheid era, South Africa has adopted a language policy that gives official status to 11 languages (English, Afrikaans, and nine Bantu languages). However, English has remained the dominant language of business, public office, and education, and some research suggests that English is increasingly being spoken in domestic settings. Concerns have therefore been raised about the future of the Bantu languages of South Africa. In this st…
Only' in Nguni
This article investigates the syntax of the phrase-final focus particles kuphela and qha 'only' in Zulu and Xhosa (Nguni; Bantu). We show that kuphela's and qha's associations with a focused constituent respect the complex topography of information structure in Nguni and, like English only, a surface c-command requirement. However, unlike English only, the Zulu and Xhosa particles typically follow the focus associate they c-command, a fact that p…
Not’ in focus
This paper investigates the interaction of focus and negation in the Bantu language Zulu (Nguni; S42). I discuss four strategies that are used to negate transitive sentences in Zulu. The default strategy, in which an object marker is added to the negated verb, expresses polarity focus by dislocating the object-marked object from the VP-focus domain. In the second strategy, no object marker occurs, and focus falls on the object or the VP. I show t…
The parser consults the lexicon in spite of transparent gender marking
Verum in Xhosa and Zulu (Nguni)
In this paper we investigate how verum is realized in Xhosa and Zulu, two Southern Bantu languages belonging to the Nguni group. The data for our study were collected through interviews with native speakers who were prompted to produce sentences in discourse contexts that typically license utterances with verum. We found that the main grammatical strategy for the expression of verum in Xhosa and Zulu involves the removal of phrasal constituents f…
Agreeing objects in Zulu can be indefinite and non-specific
In a number of Bantu languages, object marking is correlated with a definite or specific interpretation of the agreeing object DP, and similar claims about the semantic effects of object marking have also been made for Zulu (Nguni; S42). This paper examines these claims by applying a range of diagnostic tests for (in)definiteness and (non-)specificity to sentences with object-marked objects in Zulu. The paper’s first finding is that agreeing obje…
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
This volume provides a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in the north to South Africa in the south. The Bantu family is part of the Niger-Congo phylum and one of the world’s biggest language groups, comprising around 500 languages. The family includes major languages with large numbers of speakers, such as Zulu, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili, the most widely spoken and taught African lan…
Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
Distributed agreement with conjoined subjects and objects in Zulu
A great deal of work over the last two decades has explored strategies of agreement with coordinate structures whose DP-conjuncts have different φ -feature specifications. However, most of these studies have focused on agreement with conjoined subjects. We investigated verbal agreement with conjoined DPs in the Bantu language Zulu, in which object-DPs optionally agree with the verb; this allowed us to compare agreement with conjoined subjects and…
Linguistics (12 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 obras) · Zulu (7 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras) · Bantu languages (4 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 obras)