Empty operator raising in Kitharaka

The Kenyan Bantu language Kitharaka (E.54) has a biclausal construction in which a verb with an athematic subject takes a finite complement. A referential NP in the matrix subject position may acquire its thematic role through linkage with an argument at a lower level of embedding. The paper present...

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Main Author: Carolyn Harford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1997-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107390