The Syntax of Tuki

A cartographic approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-5586-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 203, 611 Seiten, Gewicht: 1235 g

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase (RelP) located between ForceP and FocP. Moreover, a detailed analysis of an articulated IP provides the order of clausal functional heads that manifest aspectual morphology, which is theoretically closely related to issues in adverbial syntax. Additionally, the language under study unveils a very rich structural make up of DP and the surface word orders attested in this phrase can be accounted for in terms of snowballing movement operations along the lines previously sketched in the format of the Split DP Hypothesis. Overall, this cartographic analysis is bound to enrich our morphosyntactic knowledge of UG clausal architecture by demonstrating that its rich underlying structural skeleton is correlated by a wealthy surface structural and functional map.

Edmond Biloa is professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon (Africa).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biloa, Edmond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: On cartographic studies
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Clause structure
Chapter 3. The order of clausal functional heads: Tense, aspect, and modality
Chapter 4. Adverbs
Chapter 5. Null subjects, identification and proper government
Chapter 6. Null objects and the pro-drop parameter
Chapter 7. A-bar bound pro
Chapter 8. Null arguments, agreement, movement and configurationality
Chapter 9. DP structure and concord
Chapter 10. Adjectives and the split – DP structure
Chapter 11. The cartography of the left periphery
Chapter 12. Arguments, adjuncts and relativized minimality
Chapter 13. Focus-V-Movement, predicate doubling and parallel chains
Chapter 14. Anaphora and binding
Chapter 15. Bound variables
Chapter 16. Conclusion
References
Name index
Subject index