The expression of information structure in Bantu

Jenneke van der Wal is a Senior Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. After obtaining her PhD degree at the same institute in 2009, she worked on grammaticalisation at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium), was part of the ERC project ‘Rethinking Comparative Syntax‘ at the University of Cambridge, and taught at Harvard University. She obtained an NWO Vidi grant to start the BaSIS project. Her research combines finding new data from Bantu languages with developing theories on the interface between syntax and information structure.