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Item Asymmetric coordination in Lega(Kölner Institut für Afrikanistik, Köln, Germany, 1998) Botne, Robert; Tak, Jin YoungItem Between agreement and case marking in Lamnso(Indiana University Linguistics Club, 2002) Botne, Robert; McGarrity, Laura W.Lamnso, a language in the Grassfields branch of Southern Bantoid, has a system of noun classes marked by (C)V affixes that attach to the stem. Noun modifiers agree with the noun by attaching a comparable affix that matches the class. This type of NP-level concord is typical of Bantu languages. At the clausal level, (C)V markers that are identical in form to those appearing at the NP-level appear as enclitics on virtually all nouns in a sentence. Though these markers are identical, it is argued that they serve separate functions, marking agreement on subject nouns before the verb and case on oblique object nouns after the verb. Direct objects and nouns in locative expressions are not marked. Typological evidence in the form of a grammatical relations hierarchy is discussed in support of these claims.Item Double Reflexes in Eastern and Southern Bantu(Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, 1992) Botne, RobertItem Future and distal -ka-'s: Proto-Bantu or nascent form(s)?(Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999) Botne, RobertItem Motion, Time, and Tense: On the Grammaticization of Come and Go to Future Markers in Bantu(The Department of Linguistics and the Center for African Studies: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2006) Botne, RobertItem Phonemic Split in Nen (A44)—A Case of Tonal Conditioning of Glottalic Proto-Bantu Consonants(Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1992) Botne, RobertItem Prosodically-Conditioned Vowel Shortening in Chindali(Program in African Languages and Linguistics and the African Studies Program, Indiana University Bloomington, 1998) Botne, RobertItem Reconstruction of a Grammaticalized Auxiliary in Bantu(Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 1989) Botne, RobertItem The Historical Relation of Cigogo to Zone J Languages(Helmut Buske Verlag, 1989) Botne, RobertCigogo, a Bantu language of Tanzania, is classified as G11 in the system developed by M. Guthrie. Since then other authors – Heine (1972), Hinnebusch (1973), Nurse and Philippson (1980), Ehret (1984) – have supported a close relationship between Cigogo and the eastern or southern Bantu languages. These analyses, however, are inconclusive (Hinnebusch 1980). According to phonological, morphological and lexical evidence, I propose that Cigogo is better considered to be related to the languages of the southern J zone, that is to say, to J22-23 languages. These facts suggest, moreover, that there exists a link between Cigogo and J61 and J22-23 languages. They indicate that the zone F languages arrived later.Item The Origins of the Remote Future Formatives in Kinyarwanda, Kirundi and Giha (J61)(Department of Linguistics and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, The University of California Los Angeles, 1990-08) Botne, RobertItem The Semantics of Tense in Kinyarwanda(Department of Linguistics and the African Studies Center, The University of California Los Angeles, 1983-12) Botne, RobertItem The Temporal Role of Eastern Bantu -ba AND -li(Department of Linguistics and the African Studies Center, The University of California Los Angeles, 1986-12) Botne, RobertItem Time, Tense and the Perfect in Zulu(Asien-Afrika-Institut of the Universität Hamburg, 2002) Botne, RobertItem Towards a Typology of DIE Verbs in African Languages(Indiana University Linguistics Club, 2001) Botne, RobertThis paper constitutes an essay in comparative lexical semantics and typology, comparing DIE verbs in nine African languages: Arabic, Tigrinya, Hausa, Dinka, Maa, Chindali, Kinyarwanda, Yoruba, and Akan. Cross-linguistically, DIE verbs, although referring to the same human event, differ in their aspectual structure. Primary DIE verbs, representative of Vendler's class of achievement verbs, provide not only an interesting case study of a single lexical verb, but also an excellent exemplar of the class type. The author proposes that the four types of DIE verbs identified also constitute the potential range of all achievement verbs.Item Variation and Word Formation in Proto-Bantu: The Case of *-YIKAD-(Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1991) Botne, Robert