The Discourse Function of Object Marking in Swahili

By Amanda Seidl, A. Dimitriadis. 1997

Subfields: Linguistics

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1. Michael Collins
2. J. Clark
3. Tom Kwiatkowski
4. Balthasar Bickel
5. Dan Garrette
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Citations in the corpus

• TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (2020, background): “Kiswahili is a pro-drop language (Seidl and Dimitriadis, 1997; Wald, 1987).”
• Grammatical Relations Typology (2010, methodology): “An example with agreement comes from Swahili: (4) Swahili (Benue-Congo; East Africa; Seidl and Dimitriadis 1997) mbwa a-li-ona mbuzi. a-li-kata kamba na ku-kimbia. a-li-m-rarua dog 3s-PST-see goat 3s-PST-cut rope and INF-run 3s-PST-3sO-tear.apart mbuzi vipande vipande. goat part part ‘The dog saw a ”