Forthcoming and in preparation

Marten, Lutz, in prep., Dynamic Syntax: An illustration with case studies from Swahili, Bemba and Hadiyya. [pre-publication pdf]

Kula, Nancy C. and Lutz Marten, to appear, Argument structure and agency in Bemba passives. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Bantu Conference, Gothenburg, Koeln: Koeppe. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, in prep., Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, to appear, Semantic transparency in phonology: telicity and vowel copying in Dciriku. In Friedrich Neubarth, Markus Plochtrager and John Rennison, eds., Phonologica 2002. [pre-publication pdf]

2008

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, 2008, Meanings of money: national identity and the semantics of currency in Zambia and Tanzania, Journal of African Cultural Studies 20: 183-199.

Marten, Lutz, Ruth Kempson and Miriam Bouzouita, 2008, Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance. In Cécile de Cat and Katherine Demuth, eds., The Romance-Bantu Connection, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 3-39. [pre-publication pdf].

Kula, Nancy C. and Lutz Marten, 2008, Central, East and Southern African Languages. In Peter Austin, ed., One Thousand Languages, Berkeley and Los Angeles: Ivy Press/University of California Press, 86-111.

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, 2008, One Zambia, One Nation, Many Languages. In Andrew Simpson, ed., Language and National Identity in Africa, Oxford: OUP, 291-313.  [pre-publication pdf]

2007

Kula, Nancy C. and Lutz Marten, eds., 2007, Bantu in Bloomsbury: Special Issue on Bantu Linguistics, SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 15. http://www.soas.ac.uk/academics/departments/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Marten, Lutz, 2007, Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: evidence from Bantu. In Enoch Aboh, Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann, eds., Focus Strategies in African Languages, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 113-135. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, 2007, Morpho-syntactic co-variation in Bantu, Bantu in Bloomsbury: Special Issue on Bantu Linguistics, SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 15. http://www.soas.ac.uk/academics/departments/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/swpl-volume-15.html

Marten, Lutz, Nancy C. Kula and Nhlanhla Thwala, 2007, Parameters of morpho-syntactic variation in Bantu. Transactions of the Philological Society 105, 253-338. [pre-publication pdf]

2006

Downing, Laura, Lutz Marten and Sabine Zerbian, eds., 2006, Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 43, Berlin: ZAS. Available online at http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil

Marten, Lutz, 2006, Bantu classification, Bantu trees and phylogenetic methods. In Peter Foster and Colin Renfrew, eds., Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 43-55. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2006, Locative inversion in Herero: More on morpho-syntatic variation in Bantu. In Laura Downing, Lutz Marten and Sabine Zerbian, eds., Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 43, Berlin: ZAS, 97-122. Available online at http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html?publications_zaspil or [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2006, Review of Maarten Mous, A Grammatical Sketch of Mbugwe. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 27: 205-208.

Marten, Lutz, 2006, Southern Bantu Languages. In Brown, Keith, ed., The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 11, 595-598.

Marten, Lutz, 2006, Swahili. In Brown, Keith, ed., The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 12, 304-308.

Marten, Lutz and Ruth Kempson, 2006, Dynamic Syntax. In Brown, Keith, ed., The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 4, 33-37.

2005

Cann, Ronnie, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, 2005, The Dynamics of Language, Oxford: Elsevier.

Cann, Ronnie, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten and Masayuki Otsuka, 2005, Right node raising, co-ordination and the dynamics of language processing. Lingua 115: 503-525. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2005, Review of Derek Nurse and Gerard Philippson, eds., The Bantu Languages. BSOAS 68: 500-502.

Marten, Lutz, 2005, The dynamics of agreement and conjunction. Lingua 115: 527-547. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2005, Zulu, in Encarta World English Encyclopedia, London: Websters Multimedia.

2004

Cann, Ronnie, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, Masayuki Otsuka and David Swinburne, 2004, On the left and on the right. In David Adger, Cécile de Cat and George Tsoulos, eds., Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 19-47.

Marten, Lutz, 2004, Review of Jouni Filip Maho and Bonny Sands, eds., The Languages of Tanzania: A Bibliography. BSOAS 67: 451.

2003

Marten, Lutz, 2003, Dynamic and pragmatic partial agreement in Luguru. In P. Sauzet and A. Zribi-Hertz, eds., Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire. Paris: L’Harmattan, 113-139. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2003, Review of Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, eds., Linguistic Fieldwork. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 66: 152-157.

Marten, Lutz, 2003, The dynamics of Bantu applied verbs: an analysis at the syntax-pragmatics interface. In Kézié K. Lébikaza, ed., Actes du 3e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Africaine Lomé 2000. Köln: Köppe, 207-221. [pre-publication pdf]

McGrath, Donovan and Lutz Marten, 2003, Colloquial Swahili. The complete course for beginners. London: Routledge.

2002

Kula, Nancy Chongo and Lutz Marten, 2002, Nasality in Bemba: Onset-to-onset government and licensing constraints. Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester, Proceedings of the Eighth Manchester Postgraduate Conference: 2-22.

Marten, Lutz, 2002, A lexical treatment for stem markers in Swahili. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 72, Swahili Forum IX: 87-100. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2002, At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Verbal underspecification and concept formation in Dynamic Syntax. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Marten, Lutz, 2002, Review of Kulikoyela Kahigi, Yared Kihore and Maarten Mous, eds., Lugha za Tanzania – Languages of Tanzania. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 23: 95-101.

Marten, Lutz, 2002, Review of the ‘International NWCL Conference on Coordination: Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics’, University of Salford, 16-18 November 2001. GLOT 6-3, 2.

Marten, Lutz and Ruth Kempson, 2002, Pronouns, agreement, and the dynamic construction of verb phrase interpretation: A Dynamic Syntax approach to Bantu clause structure. Linguistic Analysis 32: 471-504. [pre-publication pdf]

Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G., Lutz Marten and Jekura Kavari, 2002, A Grammatical Sketch of Herero. Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen 19. Köln: Köppe.

2001

Marten, Lutz and Deograsia Ramadhani, 2001, An overview of object marking in Kiluguru. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 11: 259-275. [pre-publication pdf]

2000

Marten, Lutz, 2000, Agreement with conjoined noun phrases in Swahili. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 64, Swahili Forum VII: 75-96. [pre-publication pdf]

Marten, Lutz, 2000, Review of Otto Dempwolff, Induktiver Aufbau des Urbantu. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 21: 191/92.

Marten, Lutz and Nancy C. Kula, 2000, Constraints and Processes: Evidence from Bemba, Herero, and Swahili. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 10: 91-102.

1999

Hunter, Anthony and Lutz Marten, 1999, Context sensitive reasoning with lexical and world knowledge. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 9: 373-386. [pre-publication pdf]

Kempson, Ruth and Lutz Marten, 1999, The dynamics of word-order change in the Romance languages. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 9: 21-38.

1998

Kula, Nancy Chongo and Lutz Marten, 1998, Aspects of nasality in Bemba. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 8: 191-208.

Marten, Lutz, 1998, Swahili -kwisha: sketching the path of grammaticalization. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 8: 141-163. [pre-publication pdf]

1997

Kibble, Rodger, Lutz Marten and Wilfried Meyer-Viol, 1997, Incremental interpretation using a tree description language. Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, 199-204.

Marten, Lutz, 1997, Licensing constraints for Swahili vowel harmony. PLUM 2: Proceedings of the Sixth Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference: 239-255.

1996

Marten, Lutz, 1996, Swahili vowel harmony. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 6: 61-75.

1994

Marten, Lutz, 1994, The history of English modals: syntax, semantics, grammaticalization. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 4: 11-30.