Laura J. Downing
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura J. Downing is involved.
Articles
2014 The problems of adverbs in Zulu Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics, Caspers, Johanneke, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten (eds.), pp. 42–59 | Article
Adverbs in Durban Zulu appear to have contradictory properties. On the one
hand, when they appear with intransitive verbs, they phrase prosodically with
the verb, just like direct objects. On the other hand, adverbs which appear with
transitive verbs are like typical adjuncts, which are adjoined… read more
2013 Clefts in Durban Zulu Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 141–164 | Article
In this paper, we argue that clefts in Zulu have a bipartite structure: a copular sentence with an adjoined DP/clause. This structure accounts for the prosody of clefts. Each constituent is parsed into a separate Intonation Phrase by the independently motivated phrasing algorithm of Zulu. It also… read more
1999 Prosodic Stem ≠ Prosodic Word in Bantu Studies on the Phonological Word, Hall, Tracy Alan and Ursula Kleinhenz (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Article