Hannah Gibson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hannah Gibson is involved.
Articles
2025 Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: ‘False cognates’ in Swahili Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri and Martin Maiden (eds.), pp. 184–197 | Chapter
The paper examines contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Swahili, where material which had historically been lost is ‘reintroduced’ through contact with closely related languages which have retained the original feature. The paper discusses three examples of these morphosyntactic ‘false… read more
2024 Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya Studies in Language 48:4, pp. 909–950 | Article
This paper examines the morphosyntax of the East African Swahili-based urban youth language or stylect Sheng. Research on urban youth languages has often focused on these varieties as sites of rapid change and linguistic creativity. However, we show that many of the structural features which… read more
2019 The grammaticalisation of verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu: From information structure to tense-aspect Studies in Language 43:4, pp. 757–799 | Article
Bantu languages employ a combination of simple and compound verb forms to encode tense-aspect-mood distinctions. Compound constructions typically involve an auxiliary form followed by an inflected main verb. However, the six East African Bantu languages under examination in this paper exhibit a… read more