SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics Vol.15 (2007): 51-63 The Prosody and Syntax of Zulu Relative Clauses*

In the most detailed previous study of prosodic phrasing in Nguni Bantu languages, Jokweni’s (1995) study of Xhosa, it appears that the phrasing is quite straightforward. As shown in (1a-c), the whole (maximal) clause is parsed into a single prosodic phrase (in parentheses). As shown in (1d, e): both right- and left-dislocated element