The Bondei object pronoun in clefts and pseudo-clefts.pdf

Verbs in Bondei, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa, have crossreferencing pronouns which agree in noun class with the subject and object of the clause. This paper will examine the distribution of the syntactic category object pronoun in four grammatical constructions: (a) basic affirmative decl...

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Autor principal:	Elizabeth G. Weber
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1988
Materias:	Bondei Bantu pronouns noun class relative clauses cleft Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:570e0c31bd874852948575a3d1b95d362021-11-19T03:54:48ZThe Bondei object pronoun in clefts and pseudo-clefts.pdf10.32473/sal.v19i2.1074640039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/570e0c31bd874852948575a3d1b95d361988-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107464https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XVerbs in Bondei, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa, have crossreferencing pronouns which agree in noun class with the subject and object of the clause. This paper will examine the distribution of the syntactic category object pronoun in four grammatical constructions: (a) basic affirmative declarative clauses; (b) relative clauses; (c) clefts; and (d) pseudo-clefts. In declarative and relative clauses, the presence of the object pronoun does not require a definite interpretation of the object noun; the absence of the object pronoun does not preclude a definite interpretation of the object noun. In both cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions, however, the object pronoun obligatorily functions to grammatically mark clef ted and pseudo-clef ted objects as definite. In the cleft constructions, the definiteness of the clef ted NP forces a contrastive interpretation. Thus, a judgement concerning the function of this grammatical construction with regard to contrastive function will be made on the basis of the distribution of the syntactic category object pronoun. possible to make the same judgment. Contrastive function is unambiguously signaled by the relative morphology on the verb of the pseudo-cleft. In this constuction, the object pronoun serves only to force a definite interpretation of the NP. In the pseudo-cleft constructions, it is not possible to make the same judgment. Contrastive function is unambiguously signaled by the relative morphology on the verb of the pseudo-cleft. In this constuction, the object pronoun serves only to force a definite interpretation of the NP.Elizabeth G. WeberLibraryPress@UFarticleBondeiBantupronounsnoun classrelative clausescleftPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 19, Iss 2 (1988)
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topic	Bondei Bantu pronouns noun class relative clauses cleft Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Bondei Bantu pronouns noun class relative clauses cleft Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Elizabeth G. Weber The Bondei object pronoun in clefts and pseudo-clefts.pdf
description	Verbs in Bondei, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa, have crossreferencing pronouns which agree in noun class with the subject and object of the clause. This paper will examine the distribution of the syntactic category object pronoun in four grammatical constructions: (a) basic affirmative declarative clauses; (b) relative clauses; (c) clefts; and (d) pseudo-clefts. In declarative and relative clauses, the presence of the object pronoun does not require a definite interpretation of the object noun; the absence of the object pronoun does not preclude a definite interpretation of the object noun. In both cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions, however, the object pronoun obligatorily functions to grammatically mark clef ted and pseudo-clef ted objects as definite. In the cleft constructions, the definiteness of the clef ted NP forces a contrastive interpretation. Thus, a judgement concerning the function of this grammatical construction with regard to contrastive function will be made on the basis of the distribution of the syntactic category object pronoun. possible to make the same judgment. Contrastive function is unambiguously signaled by the relative morphology on the verb of the pseudo-cleft. In this constuction, the object pronoun serves only to force a definite interpretation of the NP. In the pseudo-cleft constructions, it is not possible to make the same judgment. Contrastive function is unambiguously signaled by the relative morphology on the verb of the pseudo-cleft. In this constuction, the object pronoun serves only to force a definite interpretation of the NP.
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title	The Bondei object pronoun in clefts and pseudo-clefts.pdf
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