This study examines the distribution of Reported Speaker and Reported Addressee pronouns in a corpus of u̱t‑Maꞌin narrative spoken texts to understand what motivates the shift in pronouns between 2SG and 3SG for Reported Addressees.
On logophoric phenomena across West Africa, including grammatical marking of both reported speaker and reported addressee, how logophoric forms fit into language systems, and extensions of logophoric forms to related functions.
The u̱t‑Maꞌin associative morpheme is in widespread use across different four distinct syntactic constructions. Understanding these diverse uses of the associative and the accompanying agreement marking is crucial to understanding the grammar of the language.
Synchronic description of two progressive constructions, proposal of historical sources of the distinct morphological pieces, and a comparison of the U̱t‑Maꞌin Progressive Constructions with cognate elements from four Kainji language clusters.
A description of the morphosyntax of predication in u̱t‑Maꞌin, especially the extensive use of nominalization and NP agreement phenomena within a wide range of predicative functions.
The morphological complexity of the U̱t‑Maꞌin noun class system holds the key to understanding the distinct elements of the two Progressive constructions.