Argument licensing and agreement
This text presents a novel account for some unusual properties of Bantu grammar, arguing that Zulu has a robust system of syntactic and morphological case. This analysis illuminates a number of other properties in Zulu grammar, showing that despite surface unfamiliarity, its syntax is deeply similar to more familiar languages.
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This text presents a novel account for some unusual properties of Bantu grammar, arguing that Zulu has a robust system of syntactic and morphological case. This analysis illuminates a number of other properties in Zulu grammar, showing that despite surface unfamiliarity, its syntax is deeply similar to more familiar languages.
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- Publication Date:©2016
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780190256494, 0190256494
- oclc:ocn919495734
- LC Classification:PL8842
- Dewey Decimal:496/.39865
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction ; 1.1. Bantu Exceptionalism: What Varies, and Why?; 1.2. Familiarity in the Unfamiliar: Insights on Syntax and Variation ; 1.3. A Note on Zulu ; 2. A-movement and Phi ; 2.1. Anatomy of a Nominal ; 2.2. Flexible Word Order
2.3. Subjects and Agreement 2.3.1. Properties of vP-external Subjects ; 2.3.2. Properties of vP-internal Subjects ; 2.3.3. Optionality for Subjects ; 2.4. Raising Constructions in Zulu ; 2.4.1. Raising-to-subject ; 2.4.2. Raising-to-object
2.5. Beyond Subject Distribution: Adding Arguments 2.6. Summary ; 3. Uncovering Argument Licensing ; 3.1. Nominal Distribution and Case heory in Bantu ; 3.1.1. he Proile of Abstract Case ; 3.1.2. Against Standard Caseheory in Bantu ; 3.2. Augmentless Nominals
3.2.1. he Distribution of Augmentless Nominals 3.3. Augmentless Nominal Licensing ; 3.3.1. he vP-internal Restriction on Augmentless Nominals ; 3.3.2. Augmentless Nominals within vP ; 3.3.3. Summary ; 3.4. Augmentless Nominals and the Case for Case: A Cross-linguistic Comparison
3.4.1. Revisiting the Question of Case in Bantu 3…
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