20.1974, Qs: Edo Copular Particles

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Subject: 20.1974, Qs: Edo Copular Particles

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Date: 22-May-2009
From: Ora Matushansky < matushan at univ-paris8.fr >
Subject: Edo Copular Particles
 

	
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 15:15:50
From: Ora Matushansky [matushan at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Edo Copular Particles

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Dear colleagues,

I'm working on non-verbal predication and in particular, the use of
functional items (particles, prepositions, etc.) with non-verbal
predicates, as in the following examples from Welsh (Rouveret 1996:128):

1.	Mae	Sion	yn	ddedwydd.
	is	Siôn	PRT	happy
	Siôn is happy.

2.	Y	mae	Siôn	yn	feddyg.
	PRT	is	Siôn	PRT	doctor
	Siôn is a doctor.

Among languages claimed to have such a copular particle with adjectival
predicates is Edo (Baker 2003) - moreover, the copular particle is
different for AP and NP predicates.

I'm looking for some native or non-native speakers of and experts on Edo
who would help me answer the following questions (among some more specific
ones):
-- What happens in tenses other than the present tense?
-- What happens in secondary predication (e.g., We find Mary _smart_, Sue
came home _drunk_)?
-- Do all APs behave the same in requiring the copular particle?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

O 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology




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