An initial look at object marking in Cinyungwe

Cinyungwe is an under-researched Bantu language spoken in Mozambique. This paper is an initial investigation of object marking and related properties of the postverbal domain in Cinyungwe. We show that object marking occurs independently of right-dislocation of objects (though they can co-occur) and that object marker doubling is associated with an emphatic reading of the sentence. We propose that object marking is generated by a functional projection in the middlefield of the clause that also introduces the semantic operator generating emphasis.