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De Cat, C., & Demuth, K (eds). 2008. The Bantu-Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of syntactic structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Machobane, M., Moloi, F., & Demuth, K. 2008. Some restrictions on Sesotho null noun class prefixes. South African Journal of African Languages 27 (4), 166-180.

Demuth, K., & Kline, M. 2006. The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24, 377-388. (Special issue on Theory and Description of Southern Bantu Syntax).

Rose, Y., & Demuth, K. 2006. Vowel epenthesis in loanword adaptation: representational and phonetic considerations. In Loanword Phonology: Current Issues. M. Kenstowicz & C. Uffmann, (eds.).  Lingua, 116, 1112–1139.

Cutler, A., Demuth, K., & McQueen, J.  2002.  Universality versus language-specificity in listening to running speech.  Psychological Science 13 (3), 258-262.

Demuth, K., & Machobane, M.  2001.  Sesotho.  In J. Garry & C. Rubino (eds.), Facts about the world’s languages: An encyclopedia of the world's major languages, past and present.  pp. 633-636.  The H. W. Wilson Company: York New. New England Publishing Associates.

Demuth, K., & Harford, C.  1999.  Verb raising and subject inversion in comparative Bantu.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 20 (1), 41-61.

Harford, C., & Demuth, K.  1999.  Prosody outranks syntax:  An Optimality approach to subject inversion in Bantu relatives.  Linguistic Analysis 29 (1-2), 47-68.

Demuth, K., & Mmusi, S.  1997.  Presentational focus and thematic structure in comparative Bantu.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 18, 1-19.

Demuth, K., & Gruber, J.  1995.  Constraining XP-sequences. In V. Manfredi & K. Reynolds (eds.), Niger-Congo Syntax and Semantics 6, 3-30.  Boston University African Studies Center, Boston.

Demuth, K.  1990.  Locatives, impersonals and expletives in Sesotho.  The Linguistic Review 7, 233-249.  Foris Publications: Dordrecht.  1990.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Discourse functions of independent pronouns in Setswana.  In I. Häik & L. Tuller (eds.), Current Issues in African Linguistics.  Dordrecht:  Foris Publications.  pp. 176-193.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Maturation and the acquisition of Sesotho passive.  Language, 65, 56-80. 

Demuth, K.  1989.  Review of A Sociolinguistic Profile of Urban Centers in Cameroon, by E. Koenig, E. Chia & J. Povey (eds.).  Africana Journal 15, 389-390.

Demuth, K.  1989.  Unificação dos princípios organizacionais no desenvolvimento das convenções ortográficas(=Unifying organizational principles in the development of orthographic conventions).  I Seminário sobre a Padronização da Ortografia de Línguas Mocambiçanas (First Seminar on Developing Guidelines for a Unified Orthography for Mozambican Languages) pp. 150-153, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.  

Demuth, K., & Johnson, M.  1989.  Interactions between discourse functions and agreement in Setawana.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 11, 22-35. 

Demuth, K., &  Sekhesa Mputhi, T.  1979. Introduction to Sesotho:  An Oral Approach.  (with language tapes).  Indiana University Linguistics Club.  Bloomington, Indiana.