24.872, Books: The Clause Structure of Wolof: Torrence

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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:10:18
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Clause Structure of Wolof: Torrence

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Title: The Clause Structure of Wolof 
Subtitle: Insights into the Left Periphery 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 198  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/la.198 


Author: Harold Torrence

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027273017 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027273017 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027273017 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255815 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255815 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255815 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00


Abstract:

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic
language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytical, and
comparative, with a focus on the structure of the left periphery and left
peripheral phenomena. The book includes detailed examination of the
morpho‑syntax of wh‑questions, successive cyclicity, subject marking, relative
clauses, topic/focus articulation, and complementizer agreement. Novel data
from Wolof is used to evaluate and extend theoretical proposals concerning the
structure of the Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Tense Phrase (TP). It is
argued that Wolof provides evidence for the promotion analysis of relative
clauses, an “exploded” CP and TP, and for analyses that treat relative clauses
as composed of a determiner with a CP complement. It is further argued that
Wolof has a set of silent wh‑expressions and these are compared to
superficially similar constructions in colloquial German, Bavarian, Dutch, and
Norwegian. The book also presents a comparison of complementizer agreement
across a number of related and unrelated languages. Data from Indo‑European
(Germanic varieties, French, Irish), Niger‑Congo (Atlantic, Bantu, Gur), and
Semitic (Arabic) languages put the Wolof phenomena in a larger typological
context by showing the range of variation in complementizer agreement systems.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Wolof (wol)


Written In: English  (eng)

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