Papers

Dissertation

Beyond time: temporal and extra-temporal functions of tense and aspect marking in Totela, a Bantu language of Zambia Committee: Larry Hyman (co-chair), Lynn Nichols (co-chair), Line Mikkelsen, Alan Timberlake [pdf]

Tense, Aspect, and Mood as Information Structure

Aspect and Tense as Information Structure (Prospectus) [pdf]

When relevance trumps time: the information-strutural role of a Bantu anterior in Totela (Chronos 8: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, 2008) [pdf]

Morphology/Phonology

Phrase formation and downstep in Shekgalagari. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]

Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Shekgalagari.UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report for 2009, Berkeley: University of California, 224-278. [pdf]

Crane, Thera and Larry M. Hyman. 2007. Review of Halme, Rikka, A Tonal Grammar of Oshikwanyama. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 28.1:82-7. [pdf]

On the (non?)reality of homophony avoidance: an examination of Bantu person paradigms (Term Paper, December 2006) [pdf], [Appendix B], [Appendix C], [Appendix D]

Two tones may not be better than one: attempting a privative analysis of Kwanyama tone (Term Paper, May 2006) [pdf]

Conversation Analysis

So, where were we? Digression and refocusing in a semi-formal academic discussion group (Term Paper, December 2006) [pdf]