Research & Projects

The main goal of this project is to investigate the interaction of negation with other functional elements in the clause in representative languages of two distinct language families of the Niger-Congo phylum, the Mabia and the Bantu languages.

The project mainly focuses on interactions of sentential negation and the expressions of tense, aspect (vP periphery), as well as focus, and imperatives (both CP periphery). The languages to be investigated in this project all show a very rich inventory of elements for the expression of the various functional domains.