Publications
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I    Articles

"South African Indian English: A qualitative study of attitudes" (with Lisa Wiebesiek and Stephanie Rudwick), World Englishes 30/2, 251-268 (2011)
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"On clitic left dislocation in Zulu", Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin 18 (2006): Focus and Topic in African Languages (edited by Sonja Ermisch), Ruediger Koeppe Verlag: Koeln, 131-156. (2009)
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"On the subject marker in Kinyarwanda", Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 26/4, 407-428. (2008)
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"The subject marker in Bantu as an antifocus marker", Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics 38, 221-254. (2008)
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"Raising out of finite CP in Nguni: The case of fanele", Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 24/3, 255-275. (2006)
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"Agreement and the EPP in Kinyarwanda applicatives", in: Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuß (eds), Form, Structure and Grammar Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 275-295. (2006)
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"wh-question formation in Nguni" (with Joachim Sabel), in: John Mugane, John Hutchison and Dee Worman (eds), African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective (selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of African Linguistics, Harvard, Cambridge). Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Press, 271-283. (2006)
(Link to article on Cascadilla website)

"On the relation between noun prefixes and grammaticalisation in Nguni relative clauses", Studia Linguistica 60.2, 220-249. (2006)
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"Kinyarwanda locative applicatives and the Minimal Link Condition" (with Jean-Paul Ngoboka), Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 24/1, 101-124. (2006)
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"Derived subjects in Kinyarwanda locative constructions", Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 33, 97-130. (2006)
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"Universal principles and parametric variation: Remarks on formal linguistics and the grammar of Zulu", Ingede 1/3. (2005)
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"Relative clause formation in the Bantu languages of South Africa", Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 22/1-2, 75-93. (2004)
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"Moved preverbs in German: displaced or misplaced?", in: G. Booij and A. van Kemenade (eds) The Yearbook of Morphology. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 179-212. (2003)
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"Word-level and phrase-level prefixes in Zulu", Acta Linguistica Hungarica 50/1-2, 227-244. (2003)
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"Particle verbs are heads and phrases", in: N. Dehé, A. McIntyre and R. Jackendoff (eds), Verb-particle explorations. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 233-267. (2002)
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"How syntax restricts the lexicon: Particle verbs and internal arguments", Linguistische Berichte 188, 461-494. (2001)
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"Lexical particles, semi-lexical postpositions", in: N. Corver and H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Semi-lexical categories. 2001, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 505-549. (2001)
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"Prefixes as transitivizers", in: N. Dehé and A. Wanner (eds), Structural Aspects of Semantically Complex Verbs. Frankfurt/Bern/New York: Peter Lang, 1-34. (2001)
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"Against overt particle incorporation", Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 4/2 (Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium), 291-307. (1997)
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II     Books

Particle Verbs and Local Domains. Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2001

Die Syntax des Tempus. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1994