Indefinite subjects in Durban Zulu

Migration’s Role in Rising Obesity among Women of Zulu Ethnicity in Durban, South Africa

This article proposes to investigate perceptions on how migration is contributing to the rise of overweight and obesity mainly among female staff and students of Zulu ethnicity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban. Through a cultural anthropology lens, this article interrogates the perceptions against the backdrop of rural-urban migration, and vice versa. From a public health persp...

From ZULU to RERS - Lessons Learned in the ZULU Challenge

This paper summarizes our experience with the ZULU challenge on active learning without equivalence queries, presents our winning solution, investigates the character of ZULU’s rating approach, and discusses how this approach can be taken further to establish a framework for the systematic investigation of domain-specific, scalable learning solutions for practically relevant application. In par...

Language Impairment in Zulu

Left dislocation in Zulu

This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element within the associated clause. Typically, the resumptive element is an incorporated pronoun (cf. Bresnan & Mchombo 1987), as illustrated by the exa...

Stage/Individual-level Predicates, Topics and Indefinite Subjects

Unlike Erteschik-Shir (1997) and de Swart (1999), we argue that the so-called Davidsonian arguments both in stage-level and individual-level predicates are able to function as topics, namely, existential stage topics and generic situation topics, respectively, which conforms with the well-known definiteness topic constraint. These two types of topics, however, are available only when the Davids...