{"pk":46568,"title":"The First Person Singular Subject Negative Portmanteau in Luganda and Lusoga","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A number of studies have provided analyses of Swahili \nsi-\n, a portmanteau morpheme that conflates and replaces the first person singular subject and negative prefixes. In this short paper I present the corresponding facts from Luganda and Lusoga, two closely related Bantu languages spoken in Uganda. While the Luganda portmanteau \nsi-\n bears a clear resemblance to Swahili \nsi-\n, three analyses are considered for corresponding \nti-\n in Lusoga. Although \nti- \nlooks like the main clause negative prefix occurring without a first singular subject, i.e. \nti-Ø-\n, I argue that, despite differences, it has to treated in the same portmanteau terms as the other cases. Interestingly, while Luganda \nsi-\n replaces the otherwise expected \nti-n-\n and \nn-ta-\n sequences in main vs. relative clauses, respectively, Lusoga \nti-\n only replaces the former.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qq6j48w","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Larry","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hyman","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-12-14T14:41:35-08:00","date_accepted":"2018-12-14T14:41:35-08:00","date_published":"2018-12-14T14:42:07-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bling_formal_linguistics/article/46568/galley/35284/download/"}]}