Information structure and agreement: Subjects and subject agreement in Swahili and Herero

The analysis presented in this paper provides a development of the idea that subject agreement markers in Bantu can be analysed as pronouns. With reference to Swahili and Herero, it is shown that the interpretation of subject markers is dependent on the context in which they are found and that it is...

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Published in:	Lingua Vol. 121; no. 5; pp. 787 - 804
Main Author:	Marten, Lutz
Format:	Journal Article Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.04.2011 Elsevier
Subjects:	Agreement Bantu Languages Descriptive studies and applied theories Dynamic Syntax Information Structure Linguistics Pronoun interpretation Pronouns Semantics and pragmatics Subject agreement Swahili Syntactic Analysis Syntax Syntax Pragmatics Interface Subject agreement Bantu languages Dynamic Syntax Pronoun interpretation Information structure Syntax–pragmatics interface Logical subject Dynamic syntax Swahili Syntax-pragmatics interface Grammatical agreement Herero Pronoun Pragmatics Semantic representation Word order Syntax
ISSN:	0024-3841, 1872-6135
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