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Gibson, Hannah, Marten, Lutz and Ndlovu, Sambulo (2024) 'Encoding politeness in African urban youth languages: Evidence from Southern Africa.' Linguistics Vanguard. (Forthcoming)

Marten, Lutz, Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor (2024) 'Introduction.' In: Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz, (eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches. Berlin: Language Science Press. (Forthcoming)

Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz, eds. (2024) Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches. Berlin: Language Science Press. (Contemporary African Linguistics) (Forthcoming)

Marten, Lutz, Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn and Jerro, Kyle (2024) 'Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili.' In: Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz, (eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches. Berlin: Language Science Press. (Forthcoming)

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2023) 'Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: The case of Setswana.' Studies in African Linguistics, 52 (supplt 13). pp. 53-69.

Gibson, Hannah, Kula, Nancy C., Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2023) 'Suffix order restrictions in Bantu.' In: Ackema, Peter, Bendjaballah, Sabrina, Bonet, Eulàlia and Antonio, Fábregas, (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Marten, Lutz, Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn and Poeta, Teresa (2023) 'Content words and contextual meaning: Lexical NPs as discourse anaphora in Makhuwa and Cuwabo.' In: Achiri-Taboh, Blasius, (ed.), The Bantu Noun Phrase: Issues and Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 183-209.

Marten, Lutz (2023) 'Foreword.' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 15 (2022-2023).

Gibson, Hannah, Githiora, Chege, Kanana Erastus, Fridah and Marten, Lutz (2023) 'Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng, a youth language or stylect of Kenya.' Studies in Language. (Forthcoming)

Shinagawa, Daisuke and Marten, Lutz (2023) 'A micro-parametric survey on typological covariation related to focus marking strategies, based on the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation database.' Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 9 (1). pp. 1-25.

Marten, Lutz (2023) 'Englishes in Africa - Foreword.' In: Akinlotan, Mayowa, (ed.), Englishes in Africa. New York: Peter Lang, ix-x.

Marten, Lutz (2022) 'Editorial: Celebrating 180 years and 120 volumes of Transactions.' Transactions of the Philological Society, 120 (3). pp. 333-335.

Edelsten, Peter, Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2022) 'Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa.' Journal of the Language Association of East Africa, 1 (1). pp. 1-24.

Gibson, Hannah, Marten, Lutz, Mous, Maarten and Riedel, Kristina (2022) 'Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis.' In: Pacchiarotti, Sara and Zúñiga, Fernando, (eds.), Applicative Morphology: Neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 163-188. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]. Vol. 373)

Costley, Tracey, Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2022) 'Translanguaging spaces and multilingual public writing in Zambia: tracing change in the linguistic landscape of Ndola on the Copperbelt.' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (9). pp. 773-793.

Marten, Lutz (2021) 'From the Margins: Appreciating the African language renaissance as learners of African languages.' African Language and Culture Studies, 1. pp. 41-62.

Marten, Lutz (2021) 'Noun classes and plurality in Bantu languages.' In: Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia and Doetjes, Jenny, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 539-557.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2021) 'Expressing politeness and respect in Bantu languages: A short comparative survey.' In: Chebanne, Andy and Lusekelo, Amani, (eds.), African Languages: Linguistic, Literary and Social Issues. A festschrift in honour of Prof. Herman Batibo. Cape Town, South Africa: CASAS/UWC, pp. 67-84. (CASAS book series, no. 131)

Shinagawa, Daisuke and Marten, Lutz (2021) 'Micro-typological Covariation of Negation and Focus Marking Morphology in Bantu Languages.' 言語研究 = Gengo kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), 160. pp. 215-248.

Marten, Lutz (2020) 'Bantu and Bantoid.' In: Vossen, Rainer and Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205-219.

Gibson, Hannah, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz and Taji, Justus (2020) 'Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages].' Kiswahili, 82. pp. 1-13.

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation: Four case studies of morphosyntacitc change in Rangi.' Studies in African Linguistics, 48 (1). pp. 64-86.

Gibson, Hannah, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz, Shah, Sheena and Taji, Julius (2019) 'Variation in double object marking in Swahili.' Swahili Forum, 26. pp. 142-165.

Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Variation in Bantu copula constructions.' In: Arche, M., Fábregas, A. and Marin, R., (eds.), The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-242. (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)

Downing, Laura J. and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Clausal morphosyntax and information structure.' In: Van de Velde, Mark, Bostoen, Koen, Nurse, Derek and Philippson, Gérard, (eds.), The Bantu Languages (2nd edition). London: Routledge, pp. 270-307. (Routledge Language Family Series)

Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Preface.' In: Abe, Yuko and Shinagawa, Daisuke, (eds.), Descriptive materials of morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, v-viii.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Vowel copying in Dciriku and Mwenyi: On the interaction between phonology and semantics.' In: Banda, Felix, (ed.), Theoretical and Applied Aspects of African Languages and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Mildred Nkolola-Wakumelo. Cape Town: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS). (CASAS book series; no. 130)

Marten, Lutz and Mous, Maarten (2017) 'Valency and expectation in Bantu applicatives.' Linguistics Vanguard, 3 (1). pp. 1-15.

Gibson, Hannah, Rozenn, Guérois and Marten, Lutz (2017) 'Patterns and developments in the marking of diminutives in Bantu.' Nordic Journal of African Studies, 26 (4). pp. 344-383.

Van der Spuy, Andrew, Riedel, Kristina and Marten, Lutz, eds. (2017) Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 26 (4). Uppsala: NARN.

Gibson, Hannah, Koumbarou, Andriana, Marten, Lutz and van der Wal, Jenneke (2017) 'Locating the Bantu conjoint/disjoint alternation in a typology of focus marking.' In: van der Wal, Jenneke and Hyman, Larry M., (eds.), The conjoint/disjoint alternation in Bantu. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 61-99. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

Van der Spuy, Andrew, Riedel, Kristina and Marten, Lutz (2017) 'Introduction.' Nordic Journal of African Studies, 26 (4). pp. 251-255.

Marten, Lutz and Petzell, Malin (2016) 'Linguistic variation and the dynamics of language documentation: Editing in ‘pure’ Kagulu.' In: Seyfeddinipur, Mandana, (ed.), African language documentation: new data, methods and approaches. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii at Manoa, pp. 105-129. (Language Documentation and Conservation; Special Publication 10)

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz (2016) 'Variation and grammaticalisation in Bantu complex verbal constructions: The dynamics of information growth in Swahili, Rangi and siSwati.' In: Nash, Léa and Samvelian, Pollet, (eds.), Approaches to Complex Predicates. Leiden: Brill, pp. 70-109. (Syntax and Semantics)

Marten, Lutz and Gibson, Hannah (2015) 'Structure building and thematic constraints in Bantu inversion constructions.' Journal of Linguistics, 52 (3). pp. 565-607.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2014) 'Benefactive and substitutive applicatives in Bemba.' Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 35 (1). pp. 1-44.

Marten, Lutz and van der Wal, Jenneke (2014) 'A typology of Bantu subject inversion.' Linguistic Variation, 14 (2). pp. 318-368.

Marten, Lutz and Mous, Maarten (2014) 'Non-valency-changing valency-changing derivations.' Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, 26. pp. 89-106.

Baschiera, Angelica and Marten, Lutz (2014) 'Rare Swahili manuscripts at SOAS.' The Middle East in London, 10 (5). p. 17.

Marten, Lutz (2014) 'The preverbal position(s) in Bantu inversion constructions: Theoretical and comparative considerations.' ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 57. pp. 136-159.

Marten, Lutz (2013) 'Formal syntax and African languages: Dynamic Syntax case studies of Swahili, Bemba, and Hadiyya.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 16. pp. 195-213.

Marten, Lutz (2013) 'Introduction.' In: Naughten, Jim, (ed.), Conflict and Costume: The Herero Tribe of Namibia. London: Merrell, pp. 12-18.

Marten, Lutz (2013) 'Structure and interpretation in Swahili existential constructions.' Italian Journal of Linguistics, 25 (1). pp. 45-73.

Kempson, Ruth, Cann, Ronnie and Marten, Lutz (2013) 'Tree growth dynamics.' STIL Studies in Linguistics 6: Special Issue on Directionality of Phrase Structure Building, 6. pp. 49-81.

Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Agreement in locative phrases in Luganda.' In: Brenzinger, Matthias and Fehn, Anne-Maria, (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009. Cologne: Koppe, pp. 433-443.

Marten, Lutz and Mostert, Carola (2012) 'Background languages, learner motivation and self-assessed progress in learning Zulu as an additional language in the UK.' International Journal of Multilingualism, 9 (1). pp. 101-128.

McGrath, Donovan and Marten, Lutz (2012) Colloquial Swahili: The Complete Course for Beginners (2nd edition). London; New York: Routledge.

Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Herman Batibo.' In: Akyeampong, Emmanuel K. and Gates, Henry Louis Jr., (eds.), Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 402-404.

Marten, Lutz, Riedel, Kristina, Simango, Silvester Ron and Zeller, Jochen (2012) 'Introduction.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). iii-vii.

Riedel, Kristina and Marten, Lutz (2012) 'Locative object marking and the argument-adjunct distinction.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). pp. 277-292.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2012) 'Object marking and morphosyntactic variation in Bantu.' Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30 (2). pp. 237-253.

Kavari, Jekura, Marten, Lutz and van der Wal, Jenneke (2012) 'Tone cases in Otjiherero: Head-complement relations, linear order and information structure.' Africana Linguistica, 18. pp. 315-353.

Marten, Lutz (2011) 'Bemba benefactive constructions in the typology of applicatives.' In: Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Marten, Lutz and Nathan, David, (eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Language Description and Theory. London: SOAS, pp. 183-192.

Marten, Lutz (2011) 'Information structure and agreement: Subjects and subject markers in Swahili and Herero.' Lingua, 121 (5). pp. 787-804.

Cheng, Lisa, Delfitto, Denis and Marten, Lutz (2011) 'Introduction: The structure and interpretation of noun phrases (part I).' Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, 23 (2). pp. 199-202.

Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Marten, Lutz and Nathan, David, eds. (2011) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Language Description and Theory. London: SOAS University of London.

Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz and Thwala, Nhlanhla (2011) 'SiSwati clefts: The meeting ground of context and contrast.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Howes, Christine, (eds.), The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces. Stanford: CSLI, pp. 23-60. (Studies in constraint-based lexicalism)

Crisma, Paola, Marten, Lutz and Sybesma, Rint (2011) 'The point of Bantu, Chinese and Romance nominal classification.' Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, 23 (2). pp. 251-299.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2011) 'The prosody of Bemba relative clauses: a case study of the syntax-phonology interface in Dynamic Syntax.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Gregoromichelaki, Eleni and Howes, Christine, (eds.), The Dynamics of Lexical Interfaces. Stanford: CSLI, pp. 61-90.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2010) 'Argument structure and agency in Bemba passives.' In: Legère, Karsten and Thronell, Christina, (eds.), Bantu Languages: Analyses, Description and Theory. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 115-130. (East African Languages and Dialects, 20)

Marten, Lutz (2010) 'The great siSwati locative shift.' In: Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher, Watts, Sheila and Willis, David, (eds.), Continuity and Change in Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 249-267.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2009) 'Defining initial strength in clusterless languages in Strict CV.' In: Nasukawa, Kuniya and Backley, Phillip, (eds.), Strength Relations in Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 251-284. (Studies in generative grammar, 103)

Kavari, Jekura and Marten, Lutz (2009) 'Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero.' In: Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver, Charette, Monik, Nathan, David and Sells, Peter, (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Language Description and Theory. London: SOAS, pp. 165-173.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2008) 'Meanings of money: national identity and the semantics of currencies in Zambia and Tanzania.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 20 (2). pp. 183-199.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2008) 'Zambia: One Zambia, One Nation, Many Languages.' In: Simpson, Andrew, (ed.), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 291-313.

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

Marten, Lutz, Kempson, Ruth and Bouzouita, Miriam (2008) 'Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance.' In: de Cat, Cécile and Demuth, Katherine, (eds.), The Romance-Bantu Connection. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 3-39.

Marten, Lutz, Kula, Nancy C. and Thwala, Nhlanhla (2007) 'Parameters of Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu.' Transactions of the Philological Society, 105 (3). pp. 253-338.

Marten, Lutz (2007) 'Agreement, word order and information structure: some Bantu examples.' In: Austin, Peter, Bond, Oliver and Nathan, David, (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 165-176.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz, eds. (2007) Bantu in Bloomsbury: Special Issue on Bantu Linguistics. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. (SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics)

Marten, Lutz (2007) 'Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: evidence from Bantu.' In: Aboh, Enoch, Hartmann, Katherina and Zimmermann, Malte, (eds.), Focus Strategies in African Languages. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 113-135.

Marten, Lutz and Kula, Nancy C. (2007) 'Morphosyntactic co-variation in Bantu: Two case studies.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics (15). pp. 227-238.

Marten, Lutz (2006) 'Locative Inversion in Otjiherero: More on Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu.' ZAS Papers in Linguistics (Berlin), 43. pp. 97-122.

Marten, Lutz (2006) 'Bantu classification, Bantu trees and phylogenetic methods.' In: Foster, Peter and Renfrew, Colin, (eds.), Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 43-55.

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

Downing, Laura J., Marten, Lutz and Zerbian, Sabine, eds. (2006) Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description. Berlin: ZAS. (ZAS Papers in Linguistics; 43)

Marten, Lutz (2006) 'Review: 'A Grammatical Sketch of Mbugwe: Bantu F34, Tanzania' by Maarten Mous,.' Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 27 (2). pp. 205-208.

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

Marten, Lutz (2006) 'Swahili.' In: Brown, Keith, (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd ed.; v.12. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 304-308.

Marten, Lutz, Cann, Ronnie and Kempson, Ruth (2005) The Dynamics of Language. An Introduction. Leiden: Brill.

Marten, Lutz (2005) 'Review of Derek Nurse and Gérard Philippson, eds., 'The Bantu Languages'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 68 (3). pp. 500-502.

Cann, Ronnie, Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz and Otsuka, Masayuki (2005) 'Right node raising, co-ordination and the dynamics of language processing.' Lingua, 115 (4). pp. 503-525.

Marten, Lutz (2005) 'Zulu.' In: Encarta World English Encyclopedia. London: Websters Multimedia.

Marten, Lutz (2005) 'The dynamics of agreement and conjunction.' Lingua, 115. pp. 527-547.

Cann, Ronnie, Kempson, Ruth, Marten, Lutz, Otsuka, Masayuki and Swinburne, David (2004) 'On the left and on the right.' In: Adger, David, de Cat, Cécile and Tsoulas, George, (eds.), Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 19-47. (Studies in natural language and linguistic theory, v. 59)

Marten, Lutz (2004) 'Review of Jouni Filip Maho and Bonny Sands, eds., 'The Languages of Tanzania: A Bibliography'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 67 (3). p. 451.

McGrath, Donovan and Marten, Lutz (2003) Colloquial Swahili: A Complete Course for Beginners. London: Routledge. (Colloquials Series)

Marten, Lutz (2003) 'Dynamic and pragmatic partial agreement in Luguru.' In: Sauzet, Patrick and Zribi-Hertz, Anne, (eds.), Typologie des langues d’Afrique et universaux de la grammaire, Vol. 1: Approaches transversales et domaine Bantou. Paris: L’Harmattan, pp. 113-139.

Marten, Lutz (2003) 'Review of Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, eds., 'Linguistic Fieldwork'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 66 (1). pp. 152-157.

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

Marten, Lutz (2002) At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Verbal Underspecification and Concept Formation in Dynamic Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Möhlig, Wilhelm, Marten, Lutz and Kavari, Jekura (2002) A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (Otjiherero). Köln: Köppe. (Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen; v.19)

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2002) 'Nasality in Bemba: Onset-to-onset government and licensing constraints.' In: Chisarik, Erika and Sitaridou, Ioanna, (eds.), Proceedings of the eighth Manchester University Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, 27th March 1999. Manchester: University of Manchester, pp. 2-22. (Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester)

Marten, Lutz and Kempson, Ruth (2002) 'Pronouns, agreement, and the dynamic construction of verb phrase interpretation: A Dynamic Syntax approach to Bantu clause structure.' Linguistic Analysis, 32 (3-4). pp. 471-504.

Marten, Lutz (2002) 'Review: 'Lugha za Tanzania/Languages of Tanzania' eds. Kulikoyela Kahigi, Yared Kihore and Maarten Mous.' Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 23 (1). pp. 95-101.

Marten, Lutz (2002) 'A lexical treatment for stem markers in Swahili.' Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 72: Swahili Forum IX, 9. pp. 87-100.

Lee, Hyun-Joo and Hellmuth, Sam, eds. (2001) SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11. London: SOAS University of London.

Marten, Lutz and Ramadhani, Deograsia (2001) 'An overview of object marking in Kiluguru.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics (11). pp. 259-275.

Marten, Lutz (2000) 'Agreement with conjoined noun phrases in Swahili.' Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 64 : Swahili Forum VII, 7. pp. 75-96.

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

Marten, Lutz (2000) 'Review: 'Induktiver Aufbau des Urbantu' by Otto Dempwolff.' Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 21 (2). pp. 191-192.

Hunter, Anthony and Marten, Lutz (1999) 'Context sensitive reasoning with lexical and world knowledge.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 9. pp. 373-386.

Marten, Lutz (1999) Syntactic and Semantic Underspecification in the Verb Phrase. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033725

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

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (1998) 'Aspects of nasality in Bemba.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 8. pp. 191-208.

Marten, Lutz (1998) 'Swahili -kwisha: sketching the path of grammaticalization.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 8. pp. 141-163.

Kibble, Rodger, Marten, Lutz and Meyer-Viol, Wilfried (1997) 'Incremental interpretation using a tree description language.' In: Dekker, Paul, Stokhof, Martin and Venema, Yde, (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam, pp. 199-204.

Marten, Lutz (1997) 'Licensing constraints for Swahili vowel harmony.' In: Markve, Stephen, Pennings, Evelien and Tsukiashi, Ayumi, (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference. Manchester: University of Manchester, pp. 239-255. (Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester)

Marten, Lutz (1996) 'Swahili vowel harmony.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 6. pp. 61-75.

Marten, Lutz (1996) 'The history of English modals: syntax, semantics, grammaticalization.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 4. pp. 11-30.