Empty operator raising in Kitharaka

The Kenyan Bantu language Kitharaka (E.54) has a biclausal construction in which a verb with an athematic subject takes a finite complement. A referential NP in the matrix subject position may acquire its thematic role through linkage with an argument at a lower level of embedding. The paper present...

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Autor principal:	Carolyn Harford
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1997
Materias:	Kitharaka Bantu clausal complement raising Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:721984f271ae460da2de41f762dd7fd82021-11-19T03:53:54ZEmpty operator raising in Kitharaka10.32473/sal.v26i2.1073900039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/721984f271ae460da2de41f762dd7fd81997-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107390https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe Kenyan Bantu language Kitharaka (E.54) has a biclausal construction in which a verb with an athematic subject takes a finite complement. A referential NP in the matrix subject position may acquire its thematic role through linkage with an argument at a lower level of embedding. The paper presents evidence that this construction, referred to as Empty Operator Raising, involves empty operator movement, although it is also semantically similar to Raising-to-Subject. If the matrix subject is distinct from the subject of the nearest embedded clause, this clause must contain a clefted NP. The author proposes that this clefting is a distancing strategy to prevent an empty operator in SPEC/CP from binding the embedded subject position, to avoid forming an illicit chain with the matrix subject.Carolyn HarfordLibraryPress@UFarticleKitharakaBantuclausal complementraisingPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 26, Iss 2 (1997)
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description	The Kenyan Bantu language Kitharaka (E.54) has a biclausal construction in which a verb with an athematic subject takes a finite complement. A referential NP in the matrix subject position may acquire its thematic role through linkage with an argument at a lower level of embedding. The paper presents evidence that this construction, referred to as Empty Operator Raising, involves empty operator movement, although it is also semantically similar to Raising-to-Subject. If the matrix subject is distinct from the subject of the nearest embedded clause, this clause must contain a clefted NP. The author proposes that this clefting is a distancing strategy to prevent an empty operator in SPEC/CP from binding the embedded subject position, to avoid forming an illicit chain with the matrix subject.
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Empty operator raising in Kitharaka

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