Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)

This paper describes the morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of clausal object complementation in the Great Lakes Bantu Language Ruuli (JE103). In addition to providing an overview of the complementation strategies in Ruuli, parallels will be drawn to constructions described for related la...

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Autores principales:	Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2020
Materias:	Ruuli; Bantu languages; complementation; semantics Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3736f97e5aee4689aa4da7f73431a7c62021-11-19T03:51:51ZClausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)10.32473/sal.v49i1.1222640039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/3736f97e5aee4689aa4da7f73431a7c62020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/122264https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428X This paper describes the morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of clausal object complementation in the Great Lakes Bantu Language Ruuli (JE103). In addition to providing an overview of the complementation strategies in Ruuli, parallels will be drawn to constructions described for related languages as well as common cross-linguistic patterns in clausal complementation. Ruuli employs several different complementation strategies, including indicative, subjunctive, and infinitive constructions. Complement clauses can be either unmarked or marked with a complementizer, the most common of which is nti. These two options are also available for direct speech. Other less common complementizers, which cannot be used to introduce direct speech complements include oba, nga and ni. As individual complement-taking predicates do not allow for every complementation strategy, we will explore the semantic and morphosyntactic conditions which predict the choice of complement. To this end, we consider several predictors. We investigate the restrictions imposed by various complement-taking predicate types, e.g. knowledge predicates, phasal predicates and utterance predicates. Then we consider whether the complement expresses a proposition (a truth-valued meaning unit) or a state-of-affairs (a non-truth valued meaning unit) and whether the subject arguments in the two clauses are identical. Marie-Louise Lind SørensenAlena Witzlack-MakarevichLibraryPress@UFarticleRuuli;Bantu languages;complementation;semanticsPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 49, Iss 1 (2020)
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topic	Ruuli; Bantu languages; complementation; semantics Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Ruuli; Bantu languages; complementation; semantics Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen Alena Witzlack-Makarevich Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)
description	This paper describes the morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of clausal object complementation in the Great Lakes Bantu Language Ruuli (JE103). In addition to providing an overview of the complementation strategies in Ruuli, parallels will be drawn to constructions described for related languages as well as common cross-linguistic patterns in clausal complementation. Ruuli employs several different complementation strategies, including indicative, subjunctive, and infinitive constructions. Complement clauses can be either unmarked or marked with a complementizer, the most common of which is nti. These two options are also available for direct speech. Other less common complementizers, which cannot be used to introduce direct speech complements include oba, nga and ni. As individual complement-taking predicates do not allow for every complementation strategy, we will explore the semantic and morphosyntactic conditions which predict the choice of complement. To this end, we consider several predictors. We investigate the restrictions imposed by various complement-taking predicate types, e.g. knowledge predicates, phasal predicates and utterance predicates. Then we consider whether the complement expresses a proposition (a truth-valued meaning unit) or a state-of-affairs (a non-truth valued meaning unit) and whether the subject arguments in the two clauses are identical.
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author	Marie-Louise Lind Sørensen Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
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title	Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)
title_short	Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)
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Clausal complementation in Ruuli (Bantu, JE103)

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