Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns in Swahili

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ID4318342
AuthorsTessa Scott (0000-0003-3957-2404, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume52
Issue4
Pages812-833
Publication date2021-11-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00397
OpenAlexW3041281709
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited22

In this article, I demonstrate that Swahili distinguishes two types of resumptive pronouns: (a) lower Ā-movement copies and (b) base-generated bound pronouns. These two types of resumptive pronouns are morphologically distinct: the presence of (local) person features reflects a base-generated derivation, and the absence of person features reflects Ā-movement. Crucial evidence comes from local person pronominal clefts derived from islands (bound pronoun context) and parasitic gaps (movement copy context). Inspired by Van Urk 2018, I analyze this pattern using Landau's (2006) theory of chain reduction in which only movement copies create chains and are then subject to an algorithm that deletes person features

Context (archaeology) · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Pronoun · Subject (documents) · Subject pronoun · Swahili · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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