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Date: 15-Feb-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The Wolof basic clause and its information-structural derivatives: Bourdeau (2024)


Title: The Wolof basic clause and its information-structural
derivatives
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-wolof-basic-clause-and-it
s-information-structural-derivatives

author: Corentin Bourdeau
Abstract:

In Wolof (Niger-Congo, North Atlantic), information structure is
mainly expressed by means of specific constructions, which are often
assumed to be integrated into the verbal system of the language and to
constitute conjugation paradigms. In this dissertation, the author
explores the semantics and the grammatical structures of those
constructions, or more precisely, of the four constructions that have
been associated with the expression of focus in the literature. It
appears, after all, that not all the constructions at issue are about
focus, since one of them is used to make verum-assertions while
another, in fact, encodes the absence of information hierarchy within
the proposition. At the morphosyntactic level, the author describes
Wolof as a language without conjugations, and more generally, with
poor inflectional morphology. What the author proposes instead, is an
elegant but radically simplified grammar of Wolof, which exclusively
consists of syntactic structures derivable from two fundamental
grammatical rules: verb / predicate raising and clitic attraction.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Wolof (wol)

Written In: English (eng)



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