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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| author | Camillia N. Keach Michael Rochemont |
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| description | 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 argue against its inclusion in the Nominal Construction. Secondly, it addresses a central question: what features of an explicit grammar explain the syntactic properties associated with PR? After showing that the inferentially based proposals in Hinnebusch and Kirsner [1980] and in Scotton [1981] do not adequately characterize PR nor accommodate its syntax, semantics or interpretation, we present a Government Binding treatment ofPR's syntax. Finally, we provide a summary of our cross-linguistic research on PR's interpretation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee798937cee64eb28b97a1b1ccb0d6b12022-12-21T23:38:10ZengLibraryPress@UFStudies in African Linguistics0039-35332154-428X1992-06-0123110.32473/sal.v23i1.107418On the syntax of possessor raising in SwahiliCamillia N. KeachMichael RochemontTraditionally 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 argue against its inclusion in the Nominal Construction. Secondly, it addresses a central question: what features of an explicit grammar explain the syntactic properties associated with PR? After showing that the inferentially based proposals in Hinnebusch and Kirsner [1980] and in Scotton [1981] do not adequately characterize PR nor accommodate its syntax, semantics or interpretation, we present a Government Binding treatment ofPR's syntax. Finally, we provide a summary of our cross-linguistic research on PR's interpretation.https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107418possessor raisingSwahilisyntaxbinding |
| spellingShingle | Camillia N. Keach Michael Rochemont On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili Studies in African Linguistics possessor raising Swahili syntax binding |
| title | On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili |
| title_full | On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili |
| title_fullStr | On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili |
| title_short | On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili |
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| topic | possessor raising Swahili syntax binding |
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