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Mapunda, Gastor and Costley, Tracey and Gibson, Hannah and Kula, Nancy and Reilly, Colin (2024) Rethinking language: The need for language supportive pedagogy within teacher training in Tanzania. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 33 (3). pp. 184-202. DOI https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v33i3.1025

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz and Ndlovu, Sambulo (2024) Encoding politeness in African urban youth languages: Evidence from Southern Africa. Linguistics Vanguard. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0147

Kariuki, Annah and Gibson, Hannah and Jelpke, Tom and Ochieng, Merceline and Poeta, Teresa (2024) Verbal extensions in Sheng: An examination of variation in form and function. Lingusitics Vanguard. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0149

Reilly, Colin and Costley, Tracey and Gibson, Hannah and Kula, Nancy (2024) The multilingual university: language ideology, hidden policies and language practices in Malawian universities. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 37 (2). pp. 213-229. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2024.2303686

Gibson, Hannah and Githiora, Chege and Kanana Erastus, Fridah and Marten, Lutz (2024) Morphosyntactic retention and innovation in Sheng: an urban youth language of Kenya. Studies in Language, 48 (4). pp. 909-950. DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.22017.gib

Marten, Lutz and Gibson, Hannah (2024) On some structural similarities and differences between Herero and Swahili. Journal of Swahili and African Studies, 35. pp. 35-50. DOI https://doi.org/10.18910/95318

Gibson, Hannah and van der Wal, Jenneke (2024) Mirativity and evidentiality in Bantu: An Introduction. Studies In African Linguistics, 52 (14). pp. 1-8.

Bernander, Rasmus and Devos, Maud and Gibson, Hannah (2023) Bantu negative verbs: a typological-comparative investigation of form, function and distribution. Linguistique et langues africaines, 9 (1). DOI https://doi.org/10.4000/lla.9818

Reilly, Colin and Costley, Tracey and Gibson, Hannah and Kula, Nancy and Bagwasi, Mompoloki and Dikosha, Dikosha and Mmolao, Phetso and Mwansa, Joseph and Mwandia, Martha and Mapunda, Gastor and James, Edna (2023) Emerging principles for researching multilingually in linguistic ethnography: Reflections from Botswana, Tanzania, the UK, and Zambia. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (8). pp. 689-701. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2023.2194864

Bernander, Rasmus and Bloom-Ström, Eva-Marie and Gibson, Hannah (2022) Post-verbal negative particles in Southern Tanzania: form, distribution and historical development. Africana Linguistica, 28 (2022). pp. 55-113. DOI https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.28.0.3291208

Furumoto, Makoto and Gibson, Hannah (2022) Variation in Kimakunduchi and Standard Swahili: Insights from verbal morphosyntax. Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 8 (1). pp. 1-61. DOI https://doi.org/10.4000/lla.1994

Edelsten, Peter and Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2022) Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Focus on East Africa. Journal of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, 1 (1). pp. 1-22. DOI https://doi.org/10.5642/jlaea.omug7174

Reilly, Colin and Bagwasi, Mompoloki M and Costley, Tracey and Gibson, Hannah and Kula, Nancy C and Mapunda, Gastor and Mwansa, Joseph (2022) ‘Languages don’t have bones, so you can just break them’: rethinking multilingualism in education policy and practice in Africa. Journal of the British Academy, 10 (s4). pp. 1-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/010s4.001

Mapunda, Gastor and Gibson, Hannah (2022) On the suitability of Swahili for early schooling in remote rural Tanzania: do policy and practice align? Journal of the British Academy, 10 (s4). pp. 141-168. DOI https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/010s4.141

Bernander, Rasmus and Devos, Maud and Gibson, Hannah (2022) Modal auxiliary verb constructions in East African Bantu languages. Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 3. pp. 22-85. DOI https://doi.org/10.6093/jalalit.v3i3.9153

Gibson, Hannah and Belkadi, Aicha (2022) The development of the encoding of deictic motion in the Bantu language Rangi: Grammaticalisation and change. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 42 (1). pp. 1-32. DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2021-2024 (In Press)

Onwukwe, Chimaobi and Gibson, Hannah (2022) Migrant identities in multilingual contexts: Nigerian migrants' language use in public spaces in Cape Town. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 44 (9). pp. 794-806. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2046009

Howes, Christine and Gibson, Hannah (2021) Dynamic Syntax: The Dynamics of Incremental Processing: Constraints on Underspecification. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 30 (2). pp. 263-276. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-021-09334-x

Gibson, Hannah and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Shah, Sheena and Taji, Julius (2020) Variation in double object marking in Swahili. Swahili-Forum, 26. pp. 142-165.

Gibson, Hannah and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz and Taji, Julius (2020) Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphological and syntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages]. Kiswahili, 82 (2019). pp. 1-13.

Gibson, Hannah (2020) The grammaticalisation of verb-auxiliary order in East African Bantu: from information structure to tense-aspect. Studies in Language, 43 (4). pp. 757-799. DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.17033.gib

Roth, Tim and Gibson, Hannah (2019) Differential diagnoses of language change in Ngoreme, a Bantu language of Tanzania. Africana Linguistica, 25. pp. 281-319. DOI https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.25.0.3287236

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz (2019) Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation: four case studies of morphosyntactic change in Rangi. Studies In African Linguistics, 48 (2019). pp. 63-92.

Gibson, Hannah and Yoneda, Nobuko (2018) Functions of verb reduplication and verb doubling in Swahili. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 96. pp. 5-28. DOI https://doi.org/10.15026/92788

Gibson, H and Guérois, R and Marten, L (2017) Patterns and developments in the marking of diminutives in Bantu. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 26 (4). pp. 344-383.

Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and Gibson, Hannah (2017) The Bantu-Romance-Greek connection revisited: Processing constraints in auxiliary and clitic placement from a cross-linguistic perspective. Glossa, 2 (1). pp. 1-39. DOI https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.135

Gibson, Hannah (2016) A unified dynamic account of auxiliary placement in Rangi. Lingua, 184. pp. 79-103. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.06.003

Marten, Lutz and Gibson, Hannah (2016) Structure building and thematic constraints in Bantu inversion constructions. Journal of Linguistics, 52 (03). pp. 565-607. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000298

Seraku, T and Gibson, H (2016) A Dynamic Syntax modelling of Japanese and Rangi clefts: parsing incrementality and the growth of interpretation. Language Sciences, 56. pp. 45-67. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.03.003

Gibson, H (2015) The Dynamics of Structure building in Rangi: At the syntax-semantics interface. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 8. pp. 41-55.

Gibson, H (2013) Auxiliary placement in Rangi: A case of contact-induced change? SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 16. pp. 153-166.

Book Section

Chetty, Rajendra and Gibson, Hannah and Reilly, Colin (2024) Decolonising methodologies through collaboration: reflections on partnerships and funding flows from working between the ‘South’ and the ‘North’. In: Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford University Press, pp. 245-262.

Bernander, Rasmus and Devos, Maud and Gibson, Hannah (2022) The negative existential cycle in Bantu. In: The Negative Existential Cycle from a historical-comparative perspective. Research on Comparative Grammar 1 (99). Language Science Press, Berlin, pp. 59-113. ISBN 978-3-96110-339-3. Official URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/307

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz and Mous, Maarten and Riedel, Kristina (2022) Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis. In: Applicative Morphology: Neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, 373 . De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 163-188. ISBN 9783110777949. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949-007

Khuna, Khulisile Judith and Gibson, Hannah and Joeng, Kyoungwon and Nyambi, Bongane and Khoza, Sikumbuzo Sibusiso (2021) Siswati (S43). In: Descriptive materials of morphsyntactic microvariation in Bantu vol. 2: A microparametric survey of morphosyntactic microvariation in Southern Bantu languages. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Official URL: http://repository.tufs.ac.jp/handle/10108/99966

Guérois, Rozenn and Gibson, Hannah and Persohn, Bastian (2021) Associated Motion in Bantu languages. In: Associated Motion. DeGruyter Mouton, pp. 569-609. ISBN 9783110692006. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099-015

Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Marten, Lutz (2019) Variation in Bantu copula constructions. In: The Grammar of Copulas Across Languages. Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics . Oxford University Press, pp. 213-242. ISBN 9780198829850. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829850.003.0011

Wald, B and Gibson, H (2018) Swahili and the Bantu languages. In: The World's Major Languages. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 903-924. ISBN 9781138184824. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315644936

Book

Gibson, Hannah and Guérois, Rozenn and Mapunda, Gastor and Marten, Lutz (2024) Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages. Contemporary African Linguistics, 8 . Language Science Press, Berlin. ISBN 9783985540914. Official URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/383

Gibson, Hannah (2018) Building meaning in context: A dynamic approach to Bantu clause structure. Publications of the Philological Society, 116 . Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781119532255. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12136