
The Bantu-Romance Connection
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- The Bantu-Romance Connection
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Clitics and agreement
- Part II: The structure of DPs
- Part III: Information structure
- References
- Part I. Clitics and agreement
- Concepts of structural underspeci cation in Bantu and Romance
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Romance-Bantu similarities on the left and right periphery
- 2. The dynamics of language processing
- 2.1 Lexical information provided by verbs
- 2.2 Context-dependence and lexical speci cations for pronouns
- 2.3 The dynamics of long-distance dependency
- 2.4 Constructing trees in tandem
- 2.5 Scrambling and locality constraints on structural under-speci cation
- 3. Left and right periphery effects in Bantu
- 4. Inducing locally un xed nodes: Otjiherero subject markers
- 5. Passive and locative inversion
- 6. Reflections and directions for the future
- References
- On different types of clitic clusters*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cluster internal restrictions
- 3. On a case-approach to clitic clusters
- 3.1 On the apparent special status of Italian glielo
- 3.2 Mi ti combinations
- 4. Many different types of clitic clusters in Italian
- 4.1 Type 1: Unrestricted clusters with vowel change
- 4.2 Type 2: Unrestricted clusters with no vowel change
- 4.3 Type 3: Combinations which are only possible in proclitic position
- 4.4 Type 4 and 5: Combinations which are independently impossible in enclitic position
- 4.5 Summary
- 5. Ingredients for the analysis
- 5.1 The representation of clitic clusters in antisymmetry
- 5.2 Proclisis vs. enclisis
- 5.3 Vowel change
- 5.4 On the replacement of le by gli
- 5.5 An aside on orthographic conventions
- 5.6 On person and number feature checking
- 5.7 Clitic climbing and two clitic positions inside the clause
- 5.8 On the clitic (cluster) derivation
- 6. On the derivation of the different types of clusters
- 6.1 Type 1 clusters with io - do clitics
- 6.2 Type 1 and Type 2 clusters with locative ci
- 6.3 Another Type 2 cluster with locative ci
- 6.4 Clusters with impersonal si
- 6.5 Type 3 clusters with reflexive si
- 7. On the mi gli constraint
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- Pronominal object markers in Bantu and Romance*
- 1. The Bantu-Romance connexion
- 2. Object markers in French
- 3. Object markers in Bantu
- 4. Are Romance clitics and Bantu object markers amenable to a unified analysis?
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- The Bantu-Romance connection in verb movement and verbal inflectional morphology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. WH interrogatives in Bantu and Romance
- 3. Verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance
- 4. Formal structure and V-movement in verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance
- 5. Formal structure and V-movement in WH-extraction strategies in Bantu and Romance
- 6. Fusion in verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance
- 7. Summary and theoretical implications
- References
- Part 2. The structure of DPs
- DP in Bantu and Romance
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Words and morphemes
- 2. 1 Noun Class as grammatical gender
- 2.2 Noun Class and derivation
- 2.2.1 epresenting Class
- 2.2.2 he zero-affixation analysis
- 2.3 Discussion
- 2.4 Locatives
- 2.5 Discussion
- 3. Word order and phrase structure in DP
- 3.1 The noun-raising approach
- 3.2 Modifier order in Cinque (20 5)
- 3.3 An alternative
- 3.4 Discussion
- 3.5 Romance DPs
- 4. Agreement in DP
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- On the interpretability of f-features*
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Preliminary issues
- 2. f-features
- 3. Person
- 4. Gender
- 4.1 The Gender of Nouns
- 4.2 Gender in the absence of overt nouns
- 5. Number
- 5.1 Pure syntactic agreement
- 5.2 Coordination cases
- 5.3 Semantic agreement
- 6. Conclusions and further work
- References
- Agreement and Concord in Nominal Expressions
- 1. Aims and structure of the paper
- 2. Two different structural relations
- 3. Agree and EPP in the NE
- 3.1 The ordering of pronominal and full-NE possessors
- 3.2 Person features are weak in Bantu and Romance NEs
- 3.3 Hebrew construct state and Romanian possessive constructions
- 4. Agree vs. Concord
- 5. Concord
- 5.1 Prefixes and genitival articles
- 5.2 Pre-prefixes and double definiteness
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- A unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns
- 1. Theoretical framework and proposal
- 2. Italian gender and Luganda class systems and the nature of the feature [n]
- 2.1 Italian nominal system
- 2.2 Luganda
- 3. Gender and class as n-marked Features
- 3.1 De-nominal noun formation
- 3.2 De-adjectival noun formation
- 3.3 De-verbal noun formation
- 4. The syntactic representation of simple nouns
- 4.1 The Framework
- 4.2 The analysis
- 4.3 Phrasal movement versus head movement
- 4.4 Movement vs. parametric variation
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Part 3. Information structure
- The fine structure of the topic field
- 1. Discourse categories at the interface
- 2. Discourse categories and syntactic properties
- 3. Discourse categories, tonal events and the cartographic Approach
- 4. The fine structure of the topic field
- 5. Topics, preverbal subjects and minimality effects
- 6. The interface interpretation of postverbal subjects
- 7. Clitic-resumed Topics vs. "Marginalized" Objects
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Focus at the interface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Syntactic approaches to focus vs. interface views
- 3. Focus in Romance
- 3.1 Focus as a syntactic primitive?
- 3.2 Subject-verb inversion cross-linguistically
- 3.3 (Focus-)Inversion is sensitive to locality
- 3.4 Possessives in Portuguese and Italian
- 3.5 Partial conclusion
- 4. Focus in Bantu
- 4.1 Anchor 53
- 4.1.1 onjoint-disjoint forms and focus
- 4.1.2 urther evidence against a syntactic focus position in Bantu
- 4.2 A prosodic account of focus
- 4.3 In-situ focus
- 5. The Romance-Bantu conspiracy
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Agreement in thetic VS sentences in Bantu and Romance*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Expression of theticity
- 2.1 Detopicalization
- 2.2 Romance and Bantu thetics
- 2.3 Two types of agreement
- 2.4 Conjoint-Disjoint distinction
- 3. Possible analyses
- 3.1 Agree/uf requires Move/EPP
- 3.2 Direction of agreement vs. case dependency
- 4. Pronominal vs. grammatical agreement marker
- 4.1 Sesotho (type 1) pronominal agreement
- 4.2 Makhuwa (type 2) grammatical agreement
- 4.3 Remarks on an analysis of agreement in Italian dialects
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Index of languages
- General index
- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
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