35.3169, Books: Word Order, Information Structure and Agreement in Teke-Kukuya: Li (2024)

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Subject: 35.3169, Books: Word Order, Information Structure and Agreement in Teke-Kukuya: Li (2024)

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Date: 25-Oct-2024
From: Jan Martin [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Word Order, Information Structure and Agreement in Teke-Kukuya: Li (2024)


Title: Word order, information structure and agreement in Teke-Kukuya
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0677

Author: Zhen Li
Paperback: ISBN: 978-94-6093-461-2 Pages: 425 Price: Europe EURO 45,00
Abstract:

This thesis first provides a grammar sketch of Teke-Kukuya which is a
Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Congo, covering the topics on
its segmental phonology and prosodic system, noun classes and noun
phrases, verbal morphology and TAM conjugations, as well as some
syntactic issues based on newly collected data. The second part of the
thesis investigates the interaction between syntax and information
structure in this language. The author discusses word order variation
and expressions of information structure with particular interests in
a dedicated immediate-before-verb (IBV) focus position in this
language. Since the IBV focus construction shares many grammatical
properties with clefts, both segmentally and tonally, the author makes
the hypothesis that diachronically the IBV focus strategy originates
from a basic cleft, and it has been grammaticalised towards a
monoclausal focus construction. The thesis also gives a synchronic
analysis on the structural representation of the IBV focus
construction, discussing the subject agreement asymmetry in
subject/non-subject relatives and the associated class 1 subject
marking alternation in the IBV focus construction.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Teke-Kukuya (kkw)

Language Family(ies): Northwest Narrow Bantu B

Written In: English (eng)



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