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The Clause Structure Of The Shimaore Dialect Of Comorian (Bantu)

By Aimee Johansen Alnet

Book information

Publisher
Shimaore.net
Year
2009
Google Books ID
HyFggUgGHJ4C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
54 MB (56224810 bytes)
Pages
276\286
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2012-04-20 13:11:30
Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Языки банту;

Description

In my dissertation, I argue that lexical subjects in Shimaore are actually in topic position, and that subject and object markers are markers of agreement, rather than being pronominal in nature. I argue for the relational nature of this agreement, not relying on an agreement phrase in the clause structure of the language, and using an approach to agreement similar to that of Henderson (2006). In addressing the order of functional projections in Shimaore, I draw on work by Cinque (1999) and Julien (2002), among others. In addition to the affixation that is the focus of these two authors, Shimaore also has two functional projections that are represented by vowel harmony between the vowel in the verb stem and the "final vowel". I demonstrate that when this vowel harmony is blocked, it is because the verb is no longer in a local relation with the head of the projection in question (namely, a retrospective aspect phrase and a habitual phrase), due to the raising of the verb and formation of a complex head that distances the verb from the head involving vowel harmony.

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