33.3425, Books: A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement: van der Wal

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:46:27
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement: van der Wal

 


Title: A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Jenneke van der Wal

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198844280 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and
offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

This book explores variation in Bantu subject and object marking on the basis
of data from 75 Bantu languages. It specifically addresses the question of
which features are involved in agreement and nominal licensing, and examines
how parametric variation in those features accounts for the settings and
patterns that are attested crosslinguistically. Jenneke van der Wal proposes a
novel syntactic analysis that takes into account not only phi agreement, but
also nominal licensing and information structure. A Person feature, associated
with animacy, definiteness, or givenness, is shown to be responsible for
differential object agreement, while at the same time accounting for doubling
vs. non-doubling object marking - a hybrid solution to a long-standing debate.
In addition, low functional heads are assumed to be able to Case-license
flexibly downwards or upwards, depending on the relative topicality of the two
arguments involved. This accounts for the properties of symmetric object
marking in ditransitives and for subject inversion constructions. The
correlations between the proposed featural parameters reveal new striking
patterns that provide evidence in favour of an emergentist view of features
and parameters and against both Strong Uniformity and Strong Modularity.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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