Dr. Patrick N. Kanampiu

Lecturer in English & Linguistics | Tharaka University, Kenya

Journal Articles

  1. Kanampiu, P., Martin, A., & Culbertson, J. (2025). Experimental evidence for semantic and morphophonological productivity in Kîîtharaka noun classes. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1), 1–45.
  2. Kanampiu, P., Martin, A., & Culbertson, J. (2025). Semantic and morphophonological productivity in the Kîîtharaka gender system: A quantitative study. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 10(1), 1–33.
  3. Saldana, C., Kanampiu, P., & Culbertson, J. (In press). Gender comes first: Experimental evidence for the representation of gender closer to the noun stem than number across linguistic populations.
  4. J. Kerr, E., Asiimwe, A., Kanampiu, P., Li, Z., Nshemezimana, E., & van der Wal, J. (2023). Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic relations. Linguistique et langues africaines, 9(1).
  5. Kanampiu, P., & Muriungi, P. (2019). Order of modifiers in Kîîtharaka determiner phrase. International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 11–21.
  6. Kanampiu, P. (2024). Expression of referents in Kîîtharaka. Studies in African Linguistics, 53(2), 120–140.

Book Chapters

  1. Kanampiu, P., & van der Wal, J. (2025). The expression of information structure in Kîîtharaka. In The Expression of Information Structure in Bantu, Contemporary African Linguistics. Language Science Press, Berlin.
  2. van der Wal, J., Asiimwe, A., Kanampiu, P., Kerr, E., Lusekelo, A., Nhantumbo, N., & Nshemezimana, E. (2025). On the expression of information structure in Bantu. In The Expression of Information Structure in Bantu. Language Science Press.