The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic

As the largest language phylum in the world and the most geographically widespread (Williamson & Blench 2000), Niger-Congo understandably exhibits some variation at all grammatical levels. Basic word order stands as no exception to this generalization, and there have been partisans for both an S...

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Autor principal:	G. Tucker Childs
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2005
Materias:	Proto-Bantu word order reconstruction SOV Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e27b9da1bd4a42e5b15c0400923196762021-11-19T03:53:12ZThe S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic10.32473/sal.v34i1.1073310039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/e27b9da1bd4a42e5b15c0400923196762005-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107331https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XAs the largest language phylum in the world and the most geographically widespread (Williamson & Blench 2000), Niger-Congo understandably exhibits some variation at all grammatical levels. Basic word order stands as no exception to this generalization, and there have been partisans for both an SOV and an SVO reconstructed word order. Gensler 1994 attempts to reconcile the two by claiming that neither proposal is correct; he suggests that both SOY and SVO are derived from Proto-Niger-Congo *S-AUX-O-V-Other. Because of the pattern's "quirkiness" (being found virtually nowhere else in the world) and because it is so widely attested in geographically widely separated Niger-Congo languages, the pattern should be reconstructed for all of Niger-Congo. One crucial piece of evidence for this claim comes from the Southern Atlantic language Kisi. This paper explores Kisi' s facts in further detail to show how central the structure is to the language. It then expands the investigation to other languages of Atlantic, finding that the pattern is much more widely attested than was previously realized, albeit in an attenuated form. The paper concludes by discussing the significance of the Atlantic facts to Niger-Congo in general.G. Tucker ChildsLibraryPress@UFarticleProto-Bantuword orderreconstructionSOVPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 34, Iss 1 (2005)
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topic	Proto-Bantu word order reconstruction SOV Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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description	As the largest language phylum in the world and the most geographically widespread (Williamson & Blench 2000), Niger-Congo understandably exhibits some variation at all grammatical levels. Basic word order stands as no exception to this generalization, and there have been partisans for both an SOV and an SVO reconstructed word order. Gensler 1994 attempts to reconcile the two by claiming that neither proposal is correct; he suggests that both SOY and SVO are derived from Proto-Niger-Congo *S-AUX-O-V-Other. Because of the pattern's "quirkiness" (being found virtually nowhere else in the world) and because it is so widely attested in geographically widely separated Niger-Congo languages, the pattern should be reconstructed for all of Niger-Congo. One crucial piece of evidence for this claim comes from the Southern Atlantic language Kisi. This paper explores Kisi' s facts in further detail to show how central the structure is to the language. It then expands the investigation to other languages of Atlantic, finding that the pattern is much more widely attested than was previously realized, albeit in an attenuated form. The paper concludes by discussing the significance of the Atlantic facts to Niger-Congo in general.
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title	The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic
title_short	The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic
title_full	The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic
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The S-Aux-O-V-Other syntagm in Atlantic

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