| Title: | Bantu Object Clitics as Defective Goals |
| Author: | Jenneke Van Der Wal |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LX (2-3), p. 277-296 Variation syntaxique / Syntactic Variation Edited by Jenneke van der Wal, Adina Dragomirescu and Alexandru Nicolae |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | There is a long-standing debate regarding the syntactic status of object markers in Bantu languages. A major part of this debate involves the status of object markers as incorporated pronouns or spell-out of an Agree relation. The current paper examines a range of comparative Bantu object marking data in the light of a hybrid analysis of object clitics as proposed by Roberts (2010). The challenges of object doubling and differential object marking are addressed in a proposal that only DP objects that have a separate [Person] layer can double, i.e. involving spell out of the object marker as well as the DP itself, and precisely these objects are interpreted as high on the scales of animacy, definiteness and/or givenness. This results in a featural typology of Bantu object marking, where languages differ in whether or not little v has φ features and whether [Person] can form a separate layer. |
| Key words: | object clitics, differential object agreement, phi features, Bantu |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 58, 2015). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2015 | LR, LXV (2), 181-333 | 2016 |
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