Professor of Linguistics, CASTL
Current Activities:
PhD Theses recently supervised:
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The nanosyntax of Case - 2009 - Pavel Caha. A fresh and
groundbreaking approach to case. Shows that case
morphemes are syntactically represented as a whole series of functional
heads, in a cumulative way: nominative is F1, accusative is F1+F2,
genitive is F1+F2+F3, etc. This allows to derive a strong constraint on
syncretism among case morpheme, discovered in this thesis, as well as a
number of facts about case.
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Phrasal movement inside Bantu verbs - 2008 - Peter Muriungi. Shows
that the legendary mammoth Bantu verbs are best understood not only as
syntactic (with each morpheme its own chunk of syntactic structure) but
with typical syntactic remnant movement occuring within that structure,
along the lines of Cinque's U20 movements.
Papers available online