Is there a passive in Dhuluo
| Autor: | Eunita D. Ochola |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Studies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 1 (1999) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0039-3533 2154-428X |
| Popis: | This article presents an analysis of a particular passive-like syntactic construction in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken in parts of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. While the construction analyzed resembles the passive construction in English in which the fronted patient/theme is the subject NP, the analysis shows that this construction is not a true passive in Dholuo, but rather a pseudo-passive. The peculiarity of the Dholuo pseudo-passive is that the fronted patient is not the NP subject of the construction; rather, it is a preposed object that is adjoined to IP. What distinguishes this construction from "classic" passive constructions is that the preposed object does not control subject verb agreement. |
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