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Augustino Kagwema, Mock viva: Anticausativity in Bantu

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Welcome to the mock viva of Augustino Kagwema who writes a PhD thesis on anticausativity in Bantu.

Seminar
Date
24 Sep 2026
Time
13:15 - 15:00
Location
Room C442, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6
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Language: English
Organizer
The Department of Languages and Literatures, the research area Linguistic Structures, and the African Studies Research Seminar


Abstract

The thesis addresses verbal morphology in three Bantu languages spoken in western Tanzania: Sukuma, Nyamwezi and Kimbu. It focuses on anticausativization, the process by which a transitive causative event (Mary opened the door) is expressed as an intransitive event without an overt causer (The door opened). The study examines (i) the morphological strategies used to encode anticausative constructions, (ii) the syntactic properties associated with each strategy, and (iii) the semantic restrictions governing their distribution.
 

Opponent

  • Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo (University of Dar es Salaam)

Examining committee

  • Rasmus Bernander
  • Matti Marttinen Larsson

Supervisors

  • Malin Petzell (Göteborgs universitet)
  • Hannah Gibson (University of Essex)
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