Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers

This paper discusses the Yoruba items Pe and K£. These items have sometimes been analyzed as verbs and sometimes as complementizers. Thus their status has not been clearly established. In this paper, we look at the various structures in which these items occur and at their behaviour and proceed to r...

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Autor principal: Adenike Lawal
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:21328068a50a4c15afc09bc4abb7ae4e2021-11-19T03:54:23ZYoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers10.32473/sal.v22i1.1074270039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/21328068a50a4c15afc09bc4abb7ae4e1991-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107427https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper discusses the Yoruba items Pe and K£. These items have sometimes been analyzed as verbs and sometimes as complementizers. Thus their status has not been clearly established. In this paper, we look at the various structures in which these items occur and at their behaviour and proceed to reanalyze them. In this re-examination attention is paid to the distributional criteria of both verbs and complementizers. The paper concludes that pe and k£ are complementizers not verbs.Adenike LawalLibraryPress@UFarticleYorubamorphologycomplementizerverbsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 22, Iss 1 (1991)
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collection DOAJ
language EN
FR
topic Yoruba
morphology
complementizer
verbs
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Yoruba
morphology
complementizer
verbs
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Adenike Lawal
Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
description This paper discusses the Yoruba items Pe and K£. These items have sometimes been analyzed as verbs and sometimes as complementizers. Thus their status has not been clearly established. In this paper, we look at the various structures in which these items occur and at their behaviour and proceed to reanalyze them. In this re-examination attention is paid to the distributional criteria of both verbs and complementizers. The paper concludes that pe and k£ are complementizers not verbs.
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author Adenike Lawal
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title Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
title_short Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
title_full Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
title_fullStr Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
title_full_unstemmed Yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
title_sort yoruba pe and ki verbs or complementizers
publisher LibraryPress@UF
publishDate 1991
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