----------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: One challenge that I had was in deciding how to analyze the verb roots. One of my grammars and the dictionary I have both analyze the roots as including the final 'a' (e.g. -bona, 'see'). Under this analysis, the future tense of 'see' would be: This is the famous "final vowel". I'm not yet sure what the right answer is here, but it is common to across the Bantu languages. It might be interesting to see what Dan Jinguji decided to do for his Swahili grammar, which I have sent you. My grammars have proven to be unhelpful in finding examples. The grammar's examples are not in future tense, or only use first or second person arguments, or are full of adverbials or other extraneous information that I am not ready to include in my grammar. Most of my sample sentences are modeled after samples provided in the text, but none are taken word-for-word. The site isiZulu.net has a message board that appears to be frequented by native speakers of Zulu; I think I will try asking there for grammaticality judgments. You might also see if the Rosetta Project has a discussion "room" yet for Zulu. I have not found any mention of ditransitive verbs, so I don't know if there aren't any or if they just weren't covered in my grammars. Until I find out, I am not including any ditransitive test data, because I can't make grammaticality judgments. Most Bantu languages have interesting valence-changing morphological alternations (applicatives, etc) which should lead to sentences with 3 or more arguments. I would recommend this as something to look into instead of case. I did not include examples where the subject concord is the same for two classes. For example, the subject concord for both class 1 and class 3 is u-. Since I don't have a means of differentiating them yet, it seemed silly to list the u- prefix twice. Presumably the classes are still differentiated in other ways? (Adjective concord, object concord?) You might be able to construct examples such as: C1-noun C1-that u-verb C3-noun C3-that u-verb The only problem with "1SG.SC" is that the period is meaningful in the Leipzig glossing rules, and it's not that the morpheme glossed this way is a portmanteau of 1sg and some subject concord class. I think that just 1SG might be a better plan. It sounds like your demonstratives are probably more like adjectives than "determiners". Can other adjectives appear "outside" of them?