Selikem Gotah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1569433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selikem Gotah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selikem |
| FAMILY NAME | Gotah |
| SIGNATURE | GOTAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Linguistics New York University New York New York USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1318-5692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deriving Ewe (Tongugbe) nyá -constructions
Ewe (Kwa, Niger-Congo) has a construction known in the literature as the nyá -construction ( Ameka 1991 , 2005a ; Collins 1993 ; Duthie 1996 ; Adjei 2014 ). The logical internal argument of the construction occurs in subject position and the logical external argument is either absent on the surface or represented in the construction as a for -PP. In this paper, I consider the syntax of the Ewe nyá -construction, exploring data from the Tongugbe d…
Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations
Drawing on evidence from the scope patterns and the availability of negative polarity item (NPI) licensing of the negation marker ma-, we show that NegP is realized in Ewe (Tongugbe) agentive nominals. We conclude that agentive nominals accommodate sentential negation, posing a challenge to previous assumptions. The implication of this work is that agent nominalizations can be more verb-like than what has been reported in the literature. We furth…
Deriving Ewe (Tongugbe) nyá -constructions
Ewe (Kwa, Niger-Congo) has a construction known in the literature as the nyá -construction ( Ameka 1991 , 2005a ; Collins 1993 ; Duthie 1996 ; Adjei 2014 ). The logical internal argument of the construction occurs in subject position and the logical external argument is either absent on the surface or represented in the construction as a for -PP. In this paper, I consider the syntax of the Ewe nyá -construction, exploring data from the Tongugbe d…
Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations
Drawing on evidence from the scope patterns and the availability of negative polarity item (NPI) licensing of the negation marker ma-, we show that NegP is realized in Ewe (Tongugbe) agentive nominals. We conclude that agentive nominals accommodate sentential negation, posing a challenge to previous assumptions. The implication of this work is that agent nominalizations can be more verb-like than what has been reported in the literature. We furth…
Syntactic negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) agent nominalizations
Drawing on evidence from the scope patterns and the availability of negative polarity item (NPI) licensing of the negation marker ma-, we show that NegP is realized in Ewe (Tongugbe) agentive nominals. We conclude that agentive nominals accommodate sentential negation, posing a challenge to previous assumptions. The implication of this work is that agent nominalizations can be more verb-like than what has been reported in the literature. We furth…
Deriving Ewe (Tongugbe) nyá -constructions
Ewe (Kwa, Niger-Congo) has a construction known in the literature as the nyá -construction ( Ameka 1991 , 2005a ; Collins 1993 ; Duthie 1996 ; Adjei 2014 ). The logical internal argument of the construction occurs in subject position and the logical external argument is either absent on the surface or represented in the construction as a for -PP. In this paper, I consider the syntax of the Ewe nyá -construction, exploring data from the Tongugbe d…
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Computer Science (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (1 work) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work) · Natural language processing (1 work) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (1 work) · Negation (1 work)