Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses

The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner. Three kinds of evidence are presented: (1) selectional relations between demonstratives an...

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Autor principal:	Deo Ngonyani
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2001
Materias:	Swahili head-raising relative clause Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:886011cba88349e28fbd467c9acfb8ea2021-11-19T03:53:35ZEvidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses10.32473/sal.v30i1.1073620039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/886011cba88349e28fbd467c9acfb8ea2001-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107362https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThe author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner. Three kinds of evidence are presented: (1) selectional relations between demonstratives and some relative clauses; (2) quantified noun phrase-pronoun binding, in which the bound pronoun appears inside the head of the relative clause while its binder is located in the relative clause; and (3) relativization of objects comprising part of idiomatic expressions. The evidence supports both the head-raising hypothesis and the determiner complementation hypothesis.Deo NgonyaniLibraryPress@UFarticleSwahilihead-raisingrelative clausePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2001)
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spellingShingle	Swahili head-raising relative clause Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Deo Ngonyani Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses
description	The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner. Three kinds of evidence are presented: (1) selectional relations between demonstratives and some relative clauses; (2) quantified noun phrase-pronoun binding, in which the bound pronoun appears inside the head of the relative clause while its binder is located in the relative clause; and (3) relativization of objects comprising part of idiomatic expressions. The evidence supports both the head-raising hypothesis and the determiner complementation hypothesis.
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Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses

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