bokomslag On the structure of A-bar constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of wh-questions and fragment answers
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On the structure of A-bar constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of wh-questions and fragment answers

Samuel Alhassan Issah

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  • 238 sidor
  • 2020
This book provides an account of the structure of A-bar constructions, focusing on wh-questions and fragment answers in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Northern Ghana. It demonstrates that Dagbani wh-phrases occur in two distinct positions, ex-situ and in-situ, except for subject wh-phrases, which only occur in the former position. It provides a theoretical analysis of the distribution of the wh-phrases couched within minimalism (Chomsky 1995). Finally, the book gives an account of the structural correlation between wh-questions and their answers with the focus on the syntactic derivation of fragment answers. The author contends that the derivation of fragment answer involves two processes: A-bar movement together with PF-deletion
  • Författare: Samuel Alhassan Issah
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783631805480
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 238
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-05-13
  • Förlag: Peter Lang AG