Torben Andersen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Torben Andersen is involved.
2024 A binary inflectional voice contrast in Mabaan (Western Nilotic) Studies in Language 48:2, pp. 390–435 | Article
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, there is a binary inflectional voice contrast in the morphology of verbs. In addition to a morphologically unmarked basic voice, there is a fully productive applicative voice, which is morphologically marked. This applicative voice may be called… read more
2017 Clause-internal antitopics in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan verb-second language Studies in Language 41:1, pp. 99–141 | Article
This article deals with clausal constituent order and dislocation constructions in Berta, a Nilo-Saharan language with indicative clauses being verb-second. The preverbal slot is occupied by either an unmarked NP which may have any or no grammatical relation to the verb, a focus constituent, or a… read more
2015 Syntacticized topics in Kurmuk: A ternary voice-like system in Nilotic Studies in Language 39:3, pp. 508–554 | Article
This article argues that Kurmuk, a little-described Western Nilotic language, is characterized by a syntacticized topic whose grammatical relation is variable. In this language, declarative clauses have as topic an obligatory preverbal NP which is either a subject, an object, or an adjunct. The… read more
2014 Chapter 9. Number in Dinka Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania, Storch, Anne and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), pp. 221–264 | Article
In Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, nouns are inflected for number and distinguish between singular and plural. The number inflection is not expressed by affixation, but by phonological alternations in the root and in such a way that the number is not directly observable, but only detectable… read more
2007 Auxiliary verbs in Dinka Studies in Language 31:1, pp. 89–116 | Article
2006 [ATR] reversal in Jumjum Diachronica 23:1, pp. 3–28 | Article
Jumjum, a Western Nilotic language, has an eight-vowel system divided into two sets by the feature [ATR] (Advanced Tongue Root), which is the basis of vowel harmony. A comparison with other Western Nilotic languages shows that (i) this vowel system goes back to a ten-vowel system in Proto-Western… read more
1999 Anti-Logophoricity and Indirect Mode in Mabaan Studies in Language 23:3, pp. 499–530 | Article
In Mabaan, a Western Nilotic language, indirect speech is characterised by the following three features. Firstly, verbs are inflected in a special way, having an indirect mode as opposed to the direct mode of direct speech. Secondly, in pronominal morphemes a distinction is made between forms that… read more
1991 Subject and Topic in Dinka Studies in Language 15:2, pp. 265–294 | Article