Work from Justine Sikuku, Moi University (Kenya)

Sikuku, Justine and Michael Diercks. 2021. Object Marking in Bukusu: At the interface of pragmatics and syntax. Ms, Moi University and Pomona College. [.pdf]

Major, Travis, Justine Sikuku, and Michael Diercks. 2021. “say”-complementation: reanalyzing agreeing complementizers as verbs. Under Review. [.pdf]

Hannah Lippard (PO ’17), Justine Sikuku, Crisófia Langa da Câmara, Rose Letsholo, Madelyn Colantes (PO ’22), Kang (Franco) Liu (PO ’20), and Michael Diercks. Emphatic Interpretations of Object Marking in Bantu Languages. To appear in Studies in African Languages [.pdf]

Sikuku, Justine and Michael Diercks. 2021. Object Marking in Lubukusu: Information Structure in the Verb Phrase. In Bickmore, Lee, Michael Cahill, Michael Diercks, Laura J Downing, James Essegbey, Katie Franich, Laura McPherson, and Sharon Rose (eds). Celebrating 50 years of ACAL: Selected Papers from the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Berlin: Language Science Press. [paper .pdf]

Sikuku, Justine, Michael Diercks, and Michael Marlo. 2018. Pragmatic Effects of Clitic Doubling: Two Kinds of Object Markers in Lubukusu. Linguistic Variation 18.2: 359-429. [prepublication .pdf]

Baker, Mark, Ken Safir, and Justine Sikuku. 2013. Complex Anaphora in Lubukusu. In Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages, eds. Olanike Ola Orie and Karen W. Sanders, 196-206. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. [.pdf]

Baker, Mark, Ken Safir, and Justine Sikuku. 2012. Sources of (A)symmetry in Bantu Double Object Constructions. In the proceedings of WCCFL 30, UCSC. [prepublication draft .pdf]

Sikuku, Justine. 2012. Comparing Reflexive and Object marking in Lubukusu. To appear in the proceedings of WOCAL. [prepublication draft .pdf]