Class prefixes as specifiers in Southern Bantu

Downstep in Tswana (Southern Bantu)

The article investigates the realization of adjacent high tones across word boundaries in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language. The results show that downstep, a lowering of the second in a series of adjacent high tones, takes place across word boundaries within the same phonological phrase. Downstep does not occur across phonological phrase boundaries. The study confirms an empirical phenomenon a...

Specifiers as Secondary Heads

One of the important tasks of a syntactic theory is to provide an account of the different dependency relations that hold between elements in a phrase.1 In Dependency Grammar (following various traditional grammatical traditions (cf. Lyons 1968), there are two basic types: complement and adjunct (or modifier). The first defines an obligatory relation between a functor (or head) and its argument...

The Bantu verbal prefixes and S-Aux-O-V order in Benue-Congo

Influences on tone in Sepedi, a southern Bantu language

Tone in Bantu languages is rarely studied experimentally. This paper reports a production study which reveals the intricate interaction of tonal context and morphological structure in surface tone realization in Sepedi, a South African Bantu language.

A precarious balance: pluripotency factors as lineage specifiers.

Understanding the basis of the unrestricted multilineage differentiation potential of pluripotent cells will be of developmental and translational consequence. We propose that pluripotency transcription factors are lineage specifiers that direct commitment to specific fetal lineages. Individual factors bestow the ability to differentiate into particular cell types, and concomitant expression of...