A Promotion Analysis of Wolof Clefts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4238181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold Torrence (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-215 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Syntax (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/synt.12000 |
| OpenAlex | W1908446400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 52 |
This article investigates the syntax of cleft clauses in Wolof. I argue that Wolof clefts are derived by the movement of the clefted constituent to the cleft position. Evidence for the movement anlaysis comes from several general and language-specific reconstruction tests: island sensitivity, idiom chunk reconstruction, reconstruction for Principle A and Principle C, quantifier binding, negative polarity item reconstruction, and the properties of Wolof subjunctive clauses and clitics. I compare Wolof clefts to English clefts throughout and, following work going back toSchachter 1973, suggest that English clefts are also derived by overt movement of the clefted item. Using quantifier float, clausal pied piping and awh-copy construction, I argue that movement of the clefted item in Wolof is successive cyclic. Finally, I examine the relation between movement, Superiority, and (Strong and Weak) Crossover by comparing Wolof, English, and Yoruba
Aesthetics · Linguistics · Movement (music · Quantifier (linguistics · Syntax · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Partial Wh‐ Movement
The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts
The Topic-Comment Structure in Copular Sentences
Exhaustivity and nominal predication in the left periphery
Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts
Wolof wh-movement at the syntax-morphology interface
L-syntax and phono-symbolism
Deconstructing information structure
The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language
On the Absence of Certain Island Effects in Mende
Nominal licensing via dependent case
Essays on form and interpretation
Rules and representations
Ways of Scope Taking
On the nature of grammatical relations
The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences
Adverbs and Functional Heads
Movement in Language
Focus in Generative Grammar
Phrasal Movement and Its Kin
The Polysynthesis Parameter
Rules and representations
Resumption, Successive Cyclicity, and the Locality of Operations
The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery
The architecture of the language faculty
The View from building 20
Lectures on Government and Binding
A review of The Antisymmetry of Syntax
A note on weak crossover in Japanese
The morpho-syntax of silent wh-expressions in Wolof
On multiple questions and multiple WH fronting
Canonical government and the specifier parameter
Clitic Placement after Syntax
The Malagasy Subject/Topic as an A′-Element
Clausal Equations (A Note on the Connectivity Problem)
The range of null operators
The Representation of (In)Definiteness
The morphosyntax of WH-extraction in Irish
Overt vs. Covert Movements
A Note on Weakest Crossover
The position of subjects
Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains
Quantifier Float andWh-Movement in an Irish English
The Diverse Nature of Noninterrogative Wh
On the Absence of Superiority and Weak Crossover Effects in Yoruba
How Antisymmetric Is Syntax
Relativized minimality
Issues in adverbial syntax
The intonational system of Wolof
Idioms
Identificational Focus versus Information Focus
Focus and Relativization
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |