The applicative and the focalization of Event Location in Rundi (Bantu JD62) Ghent University
In the Eastern Great Lakes Bantu language Rundi (JD62), the -ir reflex of the polyfunctional and semantically underspecified Proto-Bantu applicative suffix *-ɪd is more often than not the only morphological means to introduce peripheral semantic roles into a main clause, as is the case elsewhere in Bantu. Although seldom discussed, discourserelated functions of PB *-ɪd are also common in Bantu. Using a combination of corpus and elicited data, we ...