33.2688, Diss: Dyula; Niger-Congo; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax: Alassane Kiemtoré: ''Issues in Jula complementation: Structures, relations and matters of interpretation''

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Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:42:34
From: Alassane Kiemtoré [akiemtor04 at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Issues in Jula complementation: Structures, relations and matters of interpretation

 
Institution: University of Stuttgart 
Program: - 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2022 

Author: Alassane Kiemtoré

Dissertation Title: Issues in Jula complementation: Structures, relations and
matters of interpretation 

Dissertation URL:  https://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/12188

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dyula (dyu)

Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo


Dissertation Director(s):
Malte Zimmermann
Daniel Hole

Dissertation Abstract:

The present thesis investigates a set of issues related to the domain of
complementation within the West-African Manding language Jula. We focus on two
complements types: infinitival clauses and finite ko-clauses. The discussion
of these two complement types is centered on four topics: (i) the relation of
the complement clause to the (hosting) matrix clause, (ii) the internal and
external syntax of complement clauses, (iii) the function and syntax of
complementizers, and (iv) referential dependencies within complementation
sentences. On these topics, the thesis makes the following contributions in
connection to Jula: it is established that both infinitival and ko-clauses
function as arguments of some predicates, even though they cannot occur inside
the boundaries of their hosting matrix clause. Their relation to the matrix
clause and their restricted position towards the latter is uniformly derived
from three interacting factors, i.e., base generation, predication, and Case
assignment. Syntactically, however, infinitival clauses and finite ko-clauses
represent two distinct complement types. While the former act as
FinP-projections, the latter behave like ForceP projections. This appears to
be a direct consequence of the role played by their heading complementizers:
kà for infinitival clauses and ko for ko-clauses. Specifically, kà is a Fin
head complementizer whose function is associated with non finiteness, i.e.,
the information that the content of the clause it introduces is not related to
an evaluation world. Ko, on the contrary, is a Force head complementizer that
anchors a clause to a speech context different from the actual speech context,
i.e., the speech context in which the actual speaker utters the ko-clause
sentence. We discuss two phenomena related to referential dependencies within
complementation sentences: control, which manifests itself in infinitival
complement clauses, and logophoricity, which is observed with finite
complement ko-clauses. Control in Jula is always an instance of obligatory
control (OC), which comes about via binding. As for logophoricity, evidence
suggests the importance of another factor than binding. In fact, we proposed
contrastive focus to play a crucial role in logophoricity in Jula.




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