Publications

2025

Van der Wal, Jenneke (ed.). The expression of information structure in Bantu. Contemporary African Linguistics series, Language Science Press. TOC:

1. Van der Wal, Jenneke, Allen Asiimwe, Patrick Kanampiu, Elisabeth J. Kerr, Zhen Li, Amani Lusekelo, Ernest Nshemezimana, and Nelsa Nhantumbo. On the expression of information structure in Bantu (introduction). pdf
2. Kerr, Elisabeth J. The expression of information structure in Tunen. pdf
3. Li, Zhen. The expression of information structure in Teke-Kukuya. pdf
4. Kanampiu, Patrick N. and Jenneke van der Wal. The expression of information structure in Kîîtharaka. pdf
5. Nshemezimana, Ernest, and Jenneke van der Wal. The expression of information structure in Kirundi. pdf
6. Asiimwe, Allen, and Jenneke van der Wal. The expression of information structure in Rukiga. pdf
7. Lusekelo, Amani, Jenneke van der Wal, and Simon Msovela. The expression of information structure in Kinyakyusa. pdf
8. Van der Wal, Jenneke. The expression of information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara. pdf
9. Nhantumbo, Nelsa, and Jenneke van der Wal. The expression of information structure in Cicopi. pdf

2024

Li, Zhen. 2024. Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke-Kukuya. Utrecht: LOT. (PhD dissertation)

Kerr, Elisabeth J. 2024. Tunen syntax and information structure. Utrecht: LOT. (PhD dissertation)

Verdonschot, Rinus, Jenneke van der Wal, Birgit Knudsen, Ashley Lewis, Sarah Von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn, Niels O. Schiller, Peter Hagoort. 2024. Information structure in Makhuwa: Electrophysiological evidence for a universal processing account. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 121:30.

Kerr, Elisabeth J. 2024. On OV and VO at the Bantu/Bantoid borderlands. In Yaqian Huang, Nina Hagen Kaldhol, Jun Jie Lim, Sharon Rose & Anthony Struthers-Young (eds.), ACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 297–345. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11210464

2023

Kerr, Elisabeth J. and Jenneke van der Wal. 2023. Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42(3). 443-492. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2023-2010

Msovela, Simon, Jenneke van der Wal, and Amani Lusekelo. 2023. Subject inversion in Kinyakyusa. Africana Linguistica 29. 157-178. https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.29.0.3292607

Asiimwe, Allen, Maria Kouneli, and Jenneke van der Wal. 2023. Determiner spreading in Rukiga. Linguistics 61(5). 1285–1339. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0027

Kerr, Elisabeth J., Allen Asiimwe, Patrick Kanampiu, Zhen Li, Amani Lusekelo, Ernest Nshemezimana, and Jenneke van der Wal. 2023. Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 9(1). Supplementary materials.

Li, Zhen, Elisabeth J. Kerr, Allen Asiimwe, Patrick Kanampiu, Ernest Nshemezimana, Jenneke van der Wal (eds.). 2023. Bantu Universals and Variation. Special issue of Linguistique et Langues Africaines 9(1).

2022

Van der Wal, Jenneke. 2022. A featural typology of Bantu agreement. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (open access!)

Van der Wal, Jenneke, and Aurélio Simango. 2022. Subject inversion in Changana. In Ezra Chambal Nhampoca and Letícia Cao Ponso (eds.), Pesquisa e ensino em línguas moçambicanas. Um tributo a Bento Sitoe, 229-247. Maputo: Gala-Gala Edições. pre-final version

Kruijsdijk, Iris, Nina van der Vlugt, and Jenneke van der Wal. 2022. The insubordinated infinitive in Makhuwa-Enahara (P31) and the expression of feelings. In Jorrig Vogels & Sterre Leufkens (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands 39, 122-142. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Van der Wal, Jenneke, and Amani Lusekelo. 2022. The V and CV augment and exhaustive focus in Kinyakyusa. Studies in African Linguistics 51(2), 324-346.

2021

Asiimwe, Allen, and Jenneke van der Wal. 2021. The multifunctionality of ‑o in Rukiga: pronoun, contrastive topic, and mirative marker. Nordic Journal of African Studies 30 (1).

Van der Wal, Jenneke. 2021. On the use of idioms for testing focus. Semantic Fieldwork Methods 3(2).

2020

Kerr, Elisabeth J. 2020. The grammaticalisation of a specific indefinite determiner: Prenominal -mɔ̀tɛ́ in Tunen. In Van der Wal, Jenneke, Heleen Smits, Sara Petrollino, Victoria Nyst, and Maarten Kossmann (eds.), Essays in African languages and linguistics: in honour of Maarten Mous, 241-266. Leiden: ASCL Occasional Publication 41. 

Li, Zhen. 2020. A note on the functional passives in Teke-Kukuya (Bantu B77, Congo). In Van der Wal, Jenneke, Heleen Smits, Sara Petrollino, Victoria Nyst, and Maarten Kossmann (eds.), Essays in African languages and linguistics: in honour of Maarten Mous, 267-286. Leiden: ASCL Occasional Publication 41. 

Van der Wal, Jenneke, and Allen Asiimwe. 2020. The residue of the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Rukiga. Studies in African Linguistics 49 (1). 43-59.

Submitted

Jerro, Kyle, and Jenneke van der Wal. Predicate doubling in Bantu: relational alternatives and contrastive topics.

In preparation

Van der Wal, Jenneke, and Stavros Skopeteas. Glossary of information structure (version Nov 2019)

Van der Wal, Jenneke, and Patrick Kanampiu. Kîîtharaka initial focus: revisiting the cleft analysis.