Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses

The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner. Three kinds of evidence are presented: (1) selectional relations between demonstratives an...

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Main Author: Deo Ngonyani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2001-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107362