31.2799, Books: Cartography and Antisymmetry: Biloa

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 22:24:15
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Cartography and Antisymmetry: Biloa

 


Title: Cartography and Antisymmetry 
Subtitle: Evidence from Bantu and Chadic 
Series Title: Linguistics Edition 12  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LE-123-Cartography-and-Antisymmetry/en 


Author: Edmond Biloa

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889808 Pages: 307 Price: Europe EURO 80


Abstract:

Cartography and Antisymmetry: Evidence from Bantu and Chadic provides a
syntactic analysis of five Bantu languages (Akoose, Basaá, Lamnso, Mbəlɨgi and
Tuki) and five Chadic languages (Giziga, Masa, Musgum, Muyang and Wandala)
from a cartographic and antisymmetric perspective. The Complementizer Domain
as well as the Inflectional Domain are meticulously explored. The book argues
that CP, as proposed by Chomsky (1986), cannot account for the Bantu and
Chadic empirical materials described and analyzed herein. Adopting Aboh’s
(2010) and Rizzi’s (2013a-b) idea that discourse particles should be
syntacticized and be part of computation, the book supports Rizzi’s (1997,
2001, 2004, 2013a-b, 2016a-b, 2017) Split-CP hypothesis that elegantly
accommodates question, focus, and topic markers in these languages. Moreover,
it argues that in Bantu languages in which the question particle occurs after
the verb stem (and as part of the verb morphology) such as Mbəlɨgi, it is
hosted under M°, the head of Mood Phrase. Assuming the Kayne’s (1994) Linear
Correspondence Axiom (LCA)-based approach, complements are always to the right
of their selecting heads while all specifiers are to the left of their heads.
Further syntactic consequence for adopting the LCA includes the impossibility
of rightward movement. Any apparent rightward movement of any constituent is
treated as leftward movement with subsequent remnant movement around that
constituent. Thus, in the Chadic languages (Muyang and Masa) wherein rightward
movement operations seem to take place in apparent violation of the LCA, it is
clearly demonstrated that the data of these languages can be accounted for by
using the antisymmetric and cartographic frameworks. Overall, the book
proposes and argues for a more detailed and structured Complementizer and
Inflectional domains and the author provides unequivocal and convincing proof,
from Bantu and Chadic languages, that syntax is, without alternative,
cartographic and antisymmetric.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Chadic
                      Narrow Bantu 


Written In: English  (eng)

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