On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili

Traditionally Possessor Raising (PR) in Swahili is included with a variety of sentence types as an instance of the Nominal Construction and more recently defended as a member of that class. This study has two major goals: fIrst, it demonstrates that PR has syntactic distributional patterns which arg...

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Autores principales:	Camillia N. Keach, Michael Rochemont
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1992
Materias:	possessor raising Swahili syntax binding Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ee798937cee64eb28b97a1b1ccb0d6b12021-11-19T03:54:14ZOn the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili10.32473/sal.v23i1.1074180039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/ee798937cee64eb28b97a1b1ccb0d6b11992-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107418https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XTraditionally Possessor Raising (PR) in Swahili is included with a variety of sentence types as an instance of the Nominal Construction and more recently defended as a member of that class. This study has two major goals: fIrst, it demonstrates that PR has syntactic distributional patterns which argue against its inclusion in the Nominal Construction. Secondly, it addresses a central question: what features of an explicit grammar explain the syntactic properties associated with PR? After showing that the inferentially based proposals in Hinnebusch and Kirsner [1980] and in Scotton [1981] do not adequately characterize PR nor accommodate its syntax, semantics or interpretation, we present a Government Binding treatment ofPR's syntax. Finally, we provide a summary of our cross-linguistic research on PR's interpretation.Camillia N. KeachMichael RochemontLibraryPress@UFarticlepossessor raisingSwahilisyntaxbindingPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 23, Iss 1 (1992)
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description	Traditionally Possessor Raising (PR) in Swahili is included with a variety of sentence types as an instance of the Nominal Construction and more recently defended as a member of that class. This study has two major goals: fIrst, it demonstrates that PR has syntactic distributional patterns which argue against its inclusion in the Nominal Construction. Secondly, it addresses a central question: what features of an explicit grammar explain the syntactic properties associated with PR? After showing that the inferentially based proposals in Hinnebusch and Kirsner [1980] and in Scotton [1981] do not adequately characterize PR nor accommodate its syntax, semantics or interpretation, we present a Government Binding treatment ofPR's syntax. Finally, we provide a summary of our cross-linguistic research on PR's interpretation.
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On the syntax of possessor raising in Swahili

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