Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses
| Autor: | Deo Ngonyani |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in African Linguistics, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2001) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0039-3533 2154-428X |
| Popis: | 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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