On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili

Traditionally Possessor Raising (PR) in Swahili is included with a variety of sentence types as an instance of the Nominal Construction and more recently defended as a member of that class. This study has two major goals: fIrst, it demonstrates that PR has syntactic distributional patterns which arg...

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Main Authors: Camillia N. Keach, Michael Rochemont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1992-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107418